Tuscan wins the Milan Cycle Race.
Several shots of the mass start of the Milan Cycle Race. Various shots of the cyclists racing through the streets and the country roads. Several contestants are seen going under the railway ramp holding their bicycles. Crowds around the roads. Some nice landscape shots of the sea and coastal villages from the road above. The winner finishing the race, some cars behind. Boys cheer and applaud. The winner is a Tuscan called Cesar Delgancia (sp?). Winner with dirty face surrounded by crowd.
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A: On line 62 of your views, change HttpResponse to HttpRequest.
It should be HttpRquest.user.project.add(self) instead.
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For those of you traveling with the furry family members, Sand Pebbles Inn, Blue Dolphin Inn, and Castle Inn all have a limited number of pet-friendly rooms, so please be sure to mention you are traveling with pets when you make the reservation so we can be sure to have your pets amenities ready for you.
Unfortunately, we cannot accommodate pets at Moonstone Cottages.
You will be happy to learn there are some fun shops for your pets in Cambria. Maddie Mae Pet Pantry has a wonderful assortment of toys, food, and fun gifts for every pet lover and for pets of all sizes. You and your furry family members will love how close we are to the beach and Moonstone Beach Boardwalk is a perfect spot for a casual walk or to enjoy an evening sunset. The Fiscalini Ranch Preserve is a 400 acre open space property and your dog will love walking in nature and so will you. Please bring a leash as most Cambria beaches are leash only. Visit the Cambria Dog Park for a little social time with other visitors and locals. Of course, strolling through the village is a delightful way to get a walk in and see what the town has to offer.
Our pet-friendly lodging at Sand Pebbles Inn, Blue Dolphin Inn, Castle Inn offers spacious rooms with snugly pillow pet beds and food and water bowls. The surroundings around the Inn provide a wonderful place to stroll with your pet. Pets are restricted to partial oceanview rooms, lower floor only. We have limited pet-friendly rooms so be sure to book ahead! For the comfort of all of our guests, pets should not be left unattended in the room at any time. Please call for reservations when traveling with your pets. The fee is $25.00 per pet per night. Maximum 2 dogs, 40 lb. weight limit.
There are several places you can dine that have patios which are pet-friendly. The garden at Indigo Moon is a great outdoor patio and Old Stone Station has a heated covered patio for those chilly days. On Moonstone Beach Drive, enjoy the Moonstone Beach Bar & Grill with an ocean view and large outdoor patio, walking distance from our hotels. Main St. Grill offers barbecue and casual fast food if you want to have a picnic with your pet. Most of the fine dining establishments do not allow pets, but the Black Cat Bistro has a lovely enclosed patio for pet lovers to enjoy.
The sweet taste of local confectionery Sweet Offerings. We will place one pound of select David Bradley Premium dark and milk mixed chocolates in your room prior to arrival.


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Q: CSS Header Issue When the browser gets stretched from its width, the header doesn't move, but the content of the page does. It's driving me nuts. If you stretch it far enough, the banner eventually ends. IE: it doesnt repeat further the banner.
Any advice? I'm not sure which part of the source code would control this. I'll put the CSS up and if needed, I can throw up part of my HTML.
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A: Without seeing your markup (which would be helpful to share), it looks like line 9 is your problem:
header#mast{margin:0 0 0 0px;width:1200px;position:fixed;top:0px;left:0%;z-index:100;}

Update it to:
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(Note the left:50% and -600px left margin (half the width of the element).

A: If you wrap your #mast and #primary-nav' elements in adivthat has a style ofmargin: 0px auto` this should cause everything to continue to center with the rest of the page as your expand the window.
As far as the banner ending is concerned, add the style width: 100% to the element that is responsible for it for the resulting infinite expansion as you widen the window.
EDIT
Since you've added the website, put the contents of the header in the following tag:

...

This will center your image, text, and links.

A: It was a large combination of difference changes that were answers. Basically it came down to a number of width changes.
If I set width 100% in one place, it had to go in multiple ones because the entire mast div was nested divs. Also, to get the banner to expand further to right, it had to be 200% for width.
The proper code is reflected in the website, at least for my solution.
Thank you everyone, and specifically TMan.


Our Old Peculiar contains traditional British Maris Otter malt and specialty malts (crushed), molasses, UK hops, and yeast - Ready to mash in and make delicious beer ever time! Temperature and time guidelines are also included.
This style of dark old ale originates from Theakston's brewery in North Yorkshire, England. It has also affectionately been referred to as 'Lunatic Broth' due to its strength. Toffee & roast malt in the mouth; hints of 'rum' with a deep bitter sweet finish and a delicate hop underpinning. Peculiar has a certain warmth due to its higher alcohol content.


Frosty weather is part of the winter season, whether we like it or not, but that doesn't mean you can't be warm and cosy.
In our house, the temperature is what my husband likes to call a "comfortable" 68 degrees.
His idea is you can always throw on an extra sweater to feel toasty and more importantly, a lower heating bill makes him smile.
My feet are always cold and I love to wear slippers that cover my whole foot, almost like a bootie.
There are so many patterns for slippers and a popular past post had a lot of different free patterns and styles.
This post is all about all the different ways you can make slipper boots, whether it's looming, knitting, crocheting or recycling old, felted sweaters.
For those of you who would like to know more about looming, read further for more information, a video and a link to a wonderful site.
Read further for free patterns and tutorials to loom, knit, recycle and crochet your own pair and as gifts for friends and family.
As you can see from the illustration, there are are different looms available and a special sock loom that adjusts for length of socks.
Click on the image below for a truly helpful site when learning about knitting with looms and for different patterns to be made with looms.
Personally, my preference is an old, wool sweater that's felted as the fibres have constricted together into a solid piece of warm and cosy fabric.
This resulting fabric is easier to cut with no fraying and sewing the pieces together is easier.
Happy Knitting, Recyccling, Crocheting and Looming!


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Brief Reviews: The Latest DVDs
OctoberNovember 2010
Catch up on some of the films you may have missed. Here's what's out on DVD.
The Jazz Singer
It's 80 years since Al Jolson broke the sound barrier in The Jazz Singer, the story about a cantor's son who goes to Hollywood to seek fame and fortune. A commemorative three-disc set includes the digitally transferred film with commentaries and vintage shorts of Jolson; a documentary, The Dawn of Sound: How the Movies Learned to Talk; and more than three hours of restored historic early comedy and music shorts. The anniversary edition is a collaboration between Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation (warnervideo.com). —Zelda Shluker
The Ultimate Goldbergs
The pioneering achievements of writer-actor-producer Gertrude Berg have been brought together on a six-disc set that includes more than 32 hours of the The Goldbergs, the mostheimish television experience ever. There are 71 television episode, 12 radio shows and an excerpt from Aviva Kempner's documentary Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg. Produced by UCLA Film & Television Archive and distributed by Shout! Factory (ShoutFactory.com). —Z.S.
The White Ribbon
Set in a German village in 1914 on the eve of World War I, the pastoral scene is soon disturbed by strange accidents, retributions and deaths. Scenes of brutal discipline in school, church and home, coupled with absolute obedience to authority, examine the dark side of the German character that came to full flower two decades later. The complex work by Michael Haneke was Germany's 2009 Academy Awards. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (www.sonyclassics.com). —Tom Tugend
Edward Norton does a superb job playing identical twins—one a pot-growing thug in Oklahoma, the other a professor of classics at an East Coast university who gets pulled back to the world he escaped when he's told his brother has died. In writer-director Tim Blake Nelson's literary yet colorful film, violence mixes with laughs and a search for meaning. Richard Dreyfuss does a star turn as Pug Rothman, a pompous Jewish drug kingpin. Millennium Films & Langley Films (www.firstlookstudios.com). —Susan Adler
Waiting For Armageddon
Israel has no more ardent supporters than the 50 million American Evangelicals who believe that Jesus' return depends on Jewish possession of every inch of the Holy Land and the rebuilding of Solomon's Temple. The thorough, even-handed documentary also examines the flip side of the prophecy, namely that all Jews must eventually convert or perish. First Run Features (www.firstrunfeatures.com). —T.T.
Pizza in Auschwitz
Danny Chanoch takes his grown children on a tour of the concentration camp he survived. Sound familiar? But Moshe Zimerman's film isn't like any other documentary. For one thing, Danny is cheerful, almost nostalgic, about his experiences; for another, the kids are reluctant, with daughter Miri kvetching all the way. In the film's climax, the family eats pizza, smokes and chats on their cell phones in a bunk in Auschwitz. The film's message is that nobody, second and third generations included, survives Auschwitz, but these contentious, disrespectful characters are not good messengers. Trabelsi Productions (www.trabelsiproductions.com). —Renata Polt
Tickling Leo
Jeremy Davidson's film features three generations of the dysfunctional Pikler family—including Eli Wallach, 93, as the grandfather blamed by his son for the death of his mother before they escaped Hungary during World War II on Reszo Kasztner's controversial train (the incident is not explained). The grandson is visiting his father with his pregnant girlfriend for Yom Kippur; only the awareness of the father's mental deterioration can help heal the isolation of the generations. Barn Door Pictures (www.barndoorpictures.com). —Z.S.
Herskovitz at the Heart of Blackness
How did the son of Jewish refugees from Hitler's Europe come to define blacks? At a time when racial identity was determined by measurement of body parts, anthropologist Melvin J. Herskovitz studied the relationship between black African Americans and African culture and determined that one must understand a culture on its own terms. Although his research was apolitical, he was a human rights activist. His views became controversial, especially among blacks who sought integration, not a connection to their African past. Llewellyn Smith's film is rich with the historical background of the times in which Herskovitz lived as well as interviews with those he influenced. (www.itvs.org). —S.A.
Haim Tabakman has produced a film that will shock some moviegoers. It portrays love between Hasidic men—black-coated, black-hatted, bearded—when a frum butcher gives a student a job in his shop as well as a room to stay. The realistic portrayals include a gracious, modest wife and zealously religious shul-goers who refuse to allow such perversion to continue in their neighborhood (https://eyeswideopenisrael.org). —S.A.
Pioneers for a Cure: Songs to Fight Cancer
The Am Yisrael Chai Collection
The Israel Sessions Volume I
The pioneer songs that created the classic folk music of early Israel are reinterpreted in these two collections; proceeds of sales benefit cancer treatment and research. The Am Yisrael Chai Collection offers a sultry, joyous fusion of Middle Eastern and European melodies and rhythms by contemporary New York-based artists including Pharaoh's Daughter ("Hinei Achal'la Bachalili"), David Broza ("Vúlai") and Neshama Carlebach ("Tapuach Zahav"). The second phase, The Israel Sessions, features Israeli musicians living in Israel, from the legendary Yehoram Gaon ("Shir Ha'avodah Vehamlacha") to rising star Tsahi Halevi ("Al Neharot Bavel"), who give the classics a subdued lyrical quality as well as an updated rock beat. Download individual songs or the whole collection fromwww.pioneersforacure.org. —Rahel Musleah
Faye Kellerman Does It Again
By Rahel Musleah
Baking Challah As Much-Kneaded Therapy
By Aayisha Ruby Gold
Jewish Arts Institutions Respond to Racial Injustice—and Covid-19
By Robert Goldblum
Granola Bars as the Ultimate Tu B'Shevat DIY Snack
Faye Kellerman Joins One Book, One Hadassah!

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Bitcoin Has Come Roaring Back—But So Have the Risks
Bitcoin Has Come Roaring Back—But So Have the Risks Alex Doubovitsky/Getty Images The bitcoin boom is back. This week, the digital currency leapt to record heights, peaking at nearly $2,800 before tumbling back down to around $2,400—by far the most dramatic run in its history.While bitcoin didn't maintain its record price for long, it's been trading feverishly this year, breaking the $2,000 threshold just last week. Other "cryptocurrencies" like Ripple and Ether (the medium of exchange on the decentralized network Ethereum) have also soared."People are piling in. I think it's fear of missing out," says Campbell Harvey, a professor of finance at Duke University. The big question is whether a crash is coming or whether cryptocurrencies have hit their stride. Should investors cash out now while the getting is good, or buy more now before the price climbs even higher? So far, when it comes to bitcoin, the only real […]
How Airbus Dreamed Up the Wild Design for Its Flying Car
How Airbus Dreamed Up the Wild Design for Its Flying Car Airbus merged with totally-not-kidding plans to deliver vehicles worthy of George Jetson. And so, the idea of flying where you now drive finagled its way into the "umm, so this could really be real" column. So far, this wannabe industry has attracted mostly brash startups, with Uber cheering them on, ready to help deploy whatever tech they can make fly. But one member of the bandwagon offers the gravitas that comes with nearly 50 years of building real life airplanes. Airbus is in the flying car game, and it's ready to embrace a new way to take off. "It seems like the future has gotten here faster than we all expected," says Zach Lovering, the head of Vahana, Airbus' personal, autonomous, electric, lust-worthy, flying machine. "There clearly is a convergence of technology that has happened to make this a […]
A Sensor That Could Soon Make Homes Scary-Smart
A Sensor That Could Soon Make Homes Scary-Smart Gierad If you want to set up a connected home, you've got two options. You can buy a bunch of smart gadgets that may or may not communicate with other smart gadgets. Or you can retrofit all of your appliances with sensor tags, creating a slapdash network. The first is expensive. The second is a hassle. Before long, though, you might have a third choice: One simple device that plugs into an electrical outlet and connects everything in the room. That's the idea behind Synthetic Sensors, a Carnegie Mellon University project that promises to make creating a smart, context-aware home a snap. The tiny device, unveiled this week at the big ACM CHI computer interaction conference, can capture all of the the environmental data needed to transform a wide variety of ordinary household objects into smart devices. It's a prototype for now, but as a […]
Even if Apple Breaks $1 Trillion, It Won't Stay on Top Forever
Even if Apple Breaks $1 Trillion, It Won't Stay on Top Forever Apple Apple just became the first US company to surpass $800 billion in market capitalization. Speculation quickly followed that Apple would soon become the first $1 trillion company, with a rumored $1,000 iPhone 8 coming at year's end. The company's share price has been on a tear since the beginning of the year, and sales of the iPhone 7 have been strong in part because of safety issues surrounding rival Samsung devices. Apple retains an enviable brand image and a devoted consumer base. And yet, the shadow cast by past corporate behemoths is creeping up on Apple. As valuable as Apple is now and could still become, the company looks vulnerable to being eclipsed in the years ahead, if not threatened to its corporate core. Apple makes hardware. It manufacturers a product. Yes, that oversimplifies the vast network […]
Uber Hires an AI Superstar in the Quest to Rehab Its Future
Uber Hires an AI Superstar in the Quest to Rehab Its Future Uber Uber is hiring Raquel Urtasun, a prominent artificial intelligence researcher at the University of Toronto, as the ride-hailing company aims to build a lab for driverless car research in the Canadian city, a hotbed for AI talent.Urtasun—an associate professor at the university who specializes in the computer vision software that allows driverless cars to view the world around them—will oversee the new venture. "We hope to draw from the region's impressive talent pool as we grow, helping the dozens of researchers we plan to hire stay connected to the Toronto-Waterloo Corridor," Travis Kalanick, Uber's embattled CEO, wrote in a blog post published this morning.The move resonates on multiple levels, given the ongoing legal attack against Uber's existing computer vision technology by Waymo—the driverless car company that grew out of Google—and the widespread controversy over Uber's allegedly misogynistic […]


TLDs, or top-level domains, are an important decision for your attorney brand. The type of TLD influences how consumers perceive you and your firm. In the past few years, just fewer than 1,000 new gTLDs (or branded TLDs) have been released for use among consumers and businesses. For the legal industry, these gTLDs include the .attorney and .lawyer marketing TLDs.
Branded TLDs have an extension that is named after an industry or profession. In the legal vertical, common branded TLDs include .attorney, .lawyer, and .legal. Branded TLDs do not help a site rank better in search; their benefits are related to marketing.
In response to a lot of questions the company received about new gTLDs, Google published a post on the topic on its Webmaster blog. John Mueller (a webmaster trends analyst at Google) did a Q&A for the post about how Google will handle new gTLDs.
The third answer in the video gives some insight as to how Google values branded domains as they relate to SEO. Even though gTLDs won't directly impact your SEO, they can improve a consumer's perception of your brand (which can indirectly help increase click-through rates in SERPs).
• Changing your domain name is always risky: Whenever you change the URLs indexed in search, you run the risk of losing rankings. Make sure you have a plan in place to redirect old URLs when you go to change your domain name.
• Directory submission sites may have trouble handling new gTLDs: Directories and other websites where you may list your site might not be set up to handle new gTLDs. For a long time, nearly every website had a .com or some other common TLD. If a directory is not set up to handle .attorney or another branded domain, you may be excluded from joining.
We recently helped EricBrockLaw.com move to Jacksonville.attorney in an experimental effort to increase rankings. In a post detailed on Search Engine Land, ranking data on Eric Brock Law's domain experienced an increase in traffic after the gTLD change.
This isn't solid proof that changing the TLD caused the site to rank higher (other SEO tasks were being performed on the site). It does, however, show that a gTLD change in concert with a holistic SEO campaign can prove successful when it comes to increasing rankings.
People already trust .com, .org, .net and other popular TLDs, and branded domains are gaining ground. Trust is a big thing online. Numerous studies on aesthetic and cognitive judgments of websites have been performed.
People are known to generate opinions of whether they trust a website very quickly (within seconds). In Google search results, where there are many choices to pick from, users may opt for domains they perceive as being heavily related to the legal industry.
Branded domains won't (by themselves) improve your search rankings, but they can have a positive impact on your digital marketing. They also play a major role in comprehensive SEO campaigns. With any domain name change, it's important to consult an experienced SEO company to ensure the process goes smoothly.


Two students from the Ray Mhlaba Centre have been dreaming all about airplanes and airports since hearing they would be flying to Cape Town for work.
The Ray Mhlaba Centre, an extension of the EP Children's Home, offers training to socially vulnerable youths between the ages of 18 to 25.
The pair will be joining 12 other students and will be working at a five star hotel as hospitality professional cookery students.
The hotel will offer them training and then employment.
EP Children's Home project director Caroline Ferreira said this opportunity was many firsts for the two.
"This is their first formal employment, their first time on a flight as well as the first time in cape town.
"It's an amazing opportunity for them to grow and become independent," she said.
Olwethu Masa, 21, of Ezinyoka, said she was thankful for the opportunity and excited to make money for her family.
"I am happy to leave PE but I will miss this place. It is exciting to go to Cape Town because I will be building myself up and I do not want to stay in one place.
"I want to grow and expand so I am hoping that this opportunity makes enough [me] money so that I get a degree and support my family more," she said.
Anele Cotani, 25, who is originally from Queenstown, said he hoped to gain as much experience as possible.
"The other students came to show us a presentation about what they were doing in Cape Town and I am excited to gain work experience," he said.
Cotani like Masa said he had been dreaming about the airplane and airports and was more nervous about the flight than moving to Cape Town.
The pair flew out of Port Elizabeth on Wednesday.


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Robotdrone LEO can walk and skateboard in addition to flying
In Drones, California, Drone Technology
When you combine a walking robot with a drone, what do you get? The outcome is LEO, an abbreviation for LEONARDO, which stands for LEgs ONboard. Robotdrone LEO can walk, skateboard, and even tightrope walk in addition to flying. The creators' aim is to develop a multi-deployable robot drone that can be utilized for a variety of activities, such as delivering products to difficult-to-reach...
Vallejo police department expands successful drone program
In Police Drones, California, Drones for Good, First Responders
The Vallejo police department expands a successful drone program after having used unmanned aircraft since 2017. The police have used drones for a variety of public safety missions.
Dixie Fire drone incident under FBI and FAA investigation
In Drone Incident, California, First Responders, Wildfire
The Dixie Fire drone incident is under investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the FBI. The drone flight had interfered with Cal Fire aircraft fire fighting operations during the first hours of the Dixie Fire.
Take the handcuffs off. Let us fly drones, says Fire Chief Schapelhouman
In Drones for Good, California, Firefighters
California Fire Departments are increasingly turning to Silicon Valley technology, such as drones, satellite images, and artificial intelligence to more effectively fight bigger blazes. In a recent article, Fire Chief Harold Schapelhouman of the Menlo Park District said "Take the handcuffs off," he said. "Let us fly [drones]."
Drone crashes into bald eagles nest in Adenwood Historic Park
In Wildlife, California, Drone Incident
A drone seemingly crashed into a bald eagles nest in a eucalyptus tree in Adenwood Historic Park in Fremont, California. According to park officials, the birds have left the nest at least temporarily.
How to get legal 'drone shots' in no-fly zones
In Drones, California
As a drone pilot, you are confronted with no-fly zones at more and more tourist hotspots. Take the Golden Gate Bridge at San Francisco for example. The bridge just begs for aerial images, but for safety reasons and the surrounding national park, drones are not allowed near the bridge. Videomaker Karen X. Cheng has found a creative solution: with the help of a small 360º camera and some...
Highway 1 damage made visible in 3D model based on drone video
In Drones for Good, California
A drone video and 3D modeling software have been used to create a 3D model of the damage that occurred to Highway 1 close to Big Sur in California.
Up to one year in prison for drone pilot who crashed UAV into LAPD chopper
In California, Drone Incident
The 22-year-old drone pilot who flew his unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) into a Los Angeles Police Department chopper faces up to one year in prison for recklessly operating a drone.
Chula Vista police drone assists in arrest teen in shooting
In California, Drones for Good, Police Drones
On Tuesday a Chula Vista police drone assisted in the arrest of a 17-year-old male who is suspected of shooting a good Samaritan in the head after a hit-and-run crash.
House approves legislation to study drone incursions on fighting wildfires
In Wildfire, California, Utah
Last week the U.S. House of Representatives approved bipartisan legislation to set up a federal and state study to examine the risks and effects of drone incursions on fighting wildfires.


Summer has been flying by and we can't believe it's already July! The fishing has been great lately, with many new bug hatches. Come on in to Straightline and we would be happy to help you find the right fly to match the hatch! Our guides have been having some incredibly successful fishing trips with their clients, especially on private waters. We've been pulling some huge pike out of Grace's, located down steam of Lake Catamount, this property holds a ton of opportunity for steamer fishing and dry fly fishing. Call us today to book a trip! The dry fly fishing has been great lately. We've had a lot of luck using PMD's and Yellow Sally's in the evening.
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Located in Milan (Fiera), La Meta di Nilsa is within a 15-minute walk of Fiera Milano City and Milan Convention Centre. This apartment is 1.7 mi (2.8 km) from Santa Maria Delle Grazie and 1.8 mi (3 km) from Arco della Pace.
Make yourself at home in one of the guestrooms, featuring kitchens with refrigerators and stovetops. Complimentary wireless Internet access is available to keep you connected.


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For tax year 2023, you can contribute up to $6,500 to all IRAs combined (the limit is adjusted annually for inflation) which is an increase of $500 from 2022. If you have a traditional IRA as well as a Roth IRA, you can only contribute a total of the annual limit in one year, not the annual limit to each. If you are age 50 or older, you can also make a $1,000 annual "catch-up" contribution.
Employer-sponsored retirement plans such as 401(k)s and 403(b)s have a $22,500 contribution limit in 2023 (up from $20,500 in 2022); individuals aged 50 and older can contribute an extra $7,500 each year as a catch-up contribution (up from $6,500 in 2022). (Section 403(b) and 457(b) plans may also provide special catch-up opportunities.)
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You can contribute up to $15,500 to a SIMPLE IRA or SIMPLE 401(k) plan in 2023 (up from $14,000 in 2022), and an extra $3,500 catch-up contribution if you are age 50 or older (up from $3,000 in 2021).
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Archives de catégorie : climate-debate
by S. Crockford, July 15, 2019, in WUWT/PolarBearScience
Summer sea ice loss is finally ramping up: first year is disappearing, as it has done every year since ice came to the Arctic millions of years ago. But critical misconceptions, fallacies, and disinformation abound regarding Arctic sea ice and polar bear survival. Ahead of Arctic Sea Ice Day (15 July), here are 10 fallacies that teachers and parents especially need to know about.
As always, please contact me if you would like to examine any of the references included in this post. These references are what make my efforts different from the activist organization Polar Bears International. PBI virtually never provide references within the content it provides, including material it presents as 'educational'. Links to previous posts of mine that provide expanded explanations, images, and additional references are provided.
The cartoon above was done by Josh: you can drop off the price of a beer (or more) for his efforts here.
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by J. Kauppinen and P. Malmi, July 13, 2019 in Physics.gen-ph
Abstract. In this paper we wil lprove that GCM-models used inI IPCC report AR5 fail to calculate the influences of the low cloud cover changes on the global temperature. That is why those models give a very small natural temperature change leaving a very large change for the contribution of the green house gases in the observed temperature. This is the reason why IPCC has to use a very large sensitivity to compensate a too small natural component. Further they have to leave out the strong negative feedback due to the clouds in order to magnify the sensitivity. In addition, this paper proves that the changes in the low cloud cover fraction practically control the global temperature.
The climate sensitivity has an extremely large uncertainty in the scientific lit- erature. The smallest values estimated are very close to zero while the highest ones are even 9 degrees Celsius for a doubling of CO2. The majority of the papers are using theoretical general circulation models (GCM) for the estimation. These models give very big sensitivities with a very large uncertainty range. Typically sensitivity values are between 2–5 degrees. IPCC uses these papers to estimate the global temperature anomalies and the climate sensitivity. However, there are a lot of papers, where sensitivities lower than one degree are estimated without using GCM. The basic problem is still a missing experimental evidence of the cli- mate sensitivity. One of the authors (JK) worked as an expert reviewer of IPCC AR5 report. One of his comments concerned the missing experimental evidence for the very large sensitivity presented in the report [1]. As a response to the com- ment IPCC claims that an observational evidence exists for example in Technical Summary of the report. In this paper we will study the case carefully.
2. Low cloud cover controls practically the global temperature
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JoNova, July 11, 2019
Remember when polar amplification was the rage? So much for that theory
Antarctica is twice the size of the US or Australia. Buried 2 km deep under domes of snow, it holds 58 meters of global sea level to ransom. The IPCC have been predicting its demise-by-climate-change for a decade or two.
A new paper looks at 60 sites across Antarctica, considering everything from ice, lake and marine cores to peat and seal skins. They were particularly interested in the Medieval Warm Period, and researched back to 600AD. During medieval times (1000-1200 AD) they estimate Antarctica as a whole was hotter than it is today. Antarctica was even warmer still — during the dark ages circa 700AD.
Credit to the paper authors: Sebastian Lüning, Mariusz Gałka, and Fritz Vahrenholt
Feast your eyes on the decidedly not unprecedented modern tiny spike:
The little jaggy down after 2000 AD is real. While there was rapid warming across Antarctica from 1950-2000, in the last twenty years, that warming has stalled. Just another 14 million square kilometers that the models didn't predict.
We already knew the Medieval Warm Period was a global phenomenon, thanks to hundreds of proxies, and 6,000 boreholes. But this new paper is a great addition.
With an awesome dedication to detail, the team put all the big oceanic and other factors into one big graph. It is nice to see them side by side so we can see the connections between them.
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by G. Lloyd, July 15, 2010 in ClimateChangeDispatch
Sand deposits near the Gobi Desert in China may seem a strange place to look for evidence that cosmic rays can control how clouds are formed and the impact they have on Earth's climate.
But Japanese scientists have measured the size of sand grains and the distance they traveled 780,000 years ago to add a new level of understanding to one of the questions that continue to baffle climate science: clouds.
The findings, published in Nature, point to big trends in natural variation of past and future climate that operate apart from greenhouse gas levels.
The study adds weight to a contentious theory by Danish researcher Henrik Svensmark, of the Danish National Space Institute in Copenhagen, which uses cosmic rays and clouds to question the sensitivity of climate to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
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Red Sea Temperature Record Shows It Follows The AMO, Not CO2 … "Natural Climate Oscillations"
by P. Gosselin, July 7, 2019 in NoTricksZone
AMO cycle on the downward side: Red Sea to cool in the coming decades
By Die kalte Sonne
(German text translated by P Gosselin)
Seven years ago, in our book "The Forgotten Sun", we proposed using ocean cycles for medium-term forecasts. At the time, the climate establishment was strictly opposed to this. Today fortunately times have changed.
On March 15, 2019, a team led by George Krokos analyzed the temperature development of the Red Sea in Geophysical Research Letters, which has become noticeably warmer in recent decades. The researchers put this into a long-term context and found a strong correlation with the 70-year ocean cycle of the AMO (Atlantic Multidecade Oscillation).
Now that AMO has reached its peak, Krokos and colleagues expect the Red Sea to cool in the next three decades.
Natural Climate Oscillations may Counteract Red Sea Warming Over the Coming Decades
Recent reports of warming trends in the Red Sea raise concerns about the response of the basin's fragile ecosystem under an increasingly warming climate. Using a variety of available Sea Surface Temperature (SST) data sets, we investigate the evolution of Red Sea SST in relation to natural climate variability. Analysis of long‐term SST data sets reveals a sequence of alternating positive and negative trends, with similar amplitudes and a periodicity of nearly 70 years associated with the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation. High warming rates reported recently appear to be a combined effect of global warming and a positive phase of natural SST oscillations. Over the next decades, the SST trend in the Red Sea purely related to global warming is expected to be counteracted by the cooling Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation phase. Regardless of the current positive trends, projections incorporating long‐term natural oscillations suggest a possible decreasing effect on SST in the near future.
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Anchorage "Record" Was Not Actually A Record!
by P. Homewood, July 14, 2019 in NotaLotofPeopleKnowThat
The US state of Alaska, part of which lies inside the Arctic Circle, is sweltering under a heatwave, with record temperatures recorded in several areas, including its largest city.
Temperatures reached 90F (32C) in Anchorage on Thursday, shattering the city's previous record of 85F.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48890556
The report clearly implied global warming as the cause, with several references to climate change links throughout the article.
As I pointed out at the time, the all-time record temperature for Alaska was set as long ago as 1915, when an incredible 100F was measured at Fort Yukon.
This story follows the usual BBC recipe for Arctic heatwaves:
Record temperatures = global warming
Hot weather is unprecedented in the Arctic. Most people would believe that temperatures of 90F simply never used to occur in the Arctic, it just sounds so unimaginable.
Unfortunately for the BBC, it turns out that the Anchorage temperature is not even a record!
I have now had time to check through the NOAA data files, and have discovered that back in June 1931, the temperature actually reached 92C at Anchorage:
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Land's complex role in climate change
by Pielke et al., 2016 in PhysicsToday
To date, most reporting on climate has focused on the possibility of catastrophic warming due to carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere. The assessment of climate change risk has essentially been distilled to a single metric: the global average surface temperature. That reality was evident at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, where the central negotiating point was whether the global temperature rise should be limited to 1.5 °C or 2 °C. Indeed, a 2016 opinion piece by Simon Lewis (University College London and the University of Leeds, UK) states that, "by endorsing a limit of 1.5 °C, the [Paris] climate negotiations have effectively defined what society considers dangerous."
But the reality of humans' impact on climate is exceedingly complex.2 Even if greenhouse gas emissions could be elimi- nated completely, other harmful anthropogenic sources of cli- mate change would remain. And even if global average tem- peratures were contained, human impacts on climate would manifest in other potentially dangerous ways.
One often overlooked human factor is land use. Deforestation, dry land farming, irrigated agriculture, overgrazing, and other alterations to the natural landscape can disrupt Earth's natural balances and change weather patterns. As with the addition of CO2into the atmosphere, the effects can last for decades or longer and affect regions distant from the original offense. Given continued rapid population growth, they threaten to be irreversible.
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Polar Bears Are Thriving Despite Global Warming: Here's Why
by Susan J. Crockford, July 11, 2019 in ClimateChangeDispatch
This essay explains in simple terms why so many people still believe that polar bears are in peril when nothing could be further from the truth; it is an essential lesson that shatters the basis of the shameful indoctrination of young school children and undermines the baseless claims of activist protestors.
It was written and translated into French for a special climate change feature issue (July) of the monthly French magazine Valeurs Actuelles (reviewed here) and reprinted by the French hunting magazine Chasses Internationales.
It has also been translated into German for a dedicated climate change issue (11 July) of the Swiss weekly magazine Die Weltwoche.
I have added a couple of figures to illustrate this English version of the essay.
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Ice Box July: Unusual Cold, Surface Frost Sweep Across Central Europe!
No Tricks Zone has the latest on the coldwave gripping much of Northern Europe. Following a new record low for July set in Lower Saxony last week, there are unconfirmed reports of a new record July low for the whole of the Netherlands:
From No Tricks Zone:
Where have all the globe-trotting climate ambulance chasers gone? Well, they're nowhere to be found in Europe nowadays.
The reason is the unusual cold that has swept across a large swath of the continent and which has sent temperatures plummeting to near freezing.
Icebox July: Parts of Central Europe saw ground surface frost yesterday morning. Source: Wetteronline.de
Yesterday morning ground frost hit parts of Belgium, Holland, Germany and the Czech Republic, as the above chart shows. Unsurprisingly, the media have been curiously silent about it.
Record Dutch July low
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Climate scientists fiddling the data again and again and again and again
by Paul Matthews, June 30, 2019 in ClimateScepticism
The history of climate scientists adjusting data to try to make recent warming look greater than it really is goes back quite a long way – it's a regular topic at Paul Homewood's blogfor example. But climate scientists continue to do it, giving the sceptics plenty of ammunition. Here are three recent blog posts discussing how climate scientists continue to adjust data to exaggerate warming.
At Pierre Gosselin's blog there's a guest post by Kirje from Japan, on NASA GISS temperature adjustments. In the latest GISS version, V4, the supposedly "unadjusted" data sets are different from the unadjusted data in the previous version V3.
Tony Heller has a graph of the 2000, 2017 and 2019 version of NASA GISTEMP, showing that Gavin Schmidt and his team have managed to crank up warming, particularly in the era of the inconvenient pause. You can also see this effect in fig 2 and fig 4 of the GISS history page.
Here in the UK, the HadCRUT4 team are doing the same thing. Clive Best asks Whatever happened to the Global Warming Hiatus? The answer is that they have demolished it with a sequence of adjustments to the data. HadCRUT3, as published in 2014, shows a clear pause, with no warming from about 2001-2013, but the latest new improved data set HadCRUT4.6 cranks recent temperatures upwards. Clive thought that night be due to including different measurement stations, but checked and found that was not the case. The numbers have simply been adjusted.
Here the red diamond is the raw data, the green diamond is HadSST3, and the new HadSST4 is shown as the black line, with grey shading representing uncertainty. In the early years of the 20th century, there was global warming that doesn't fit with the carbon-dioxide-controlled theory of climate scientists, so that is adjusted downwards. But look at the trend over the pause era, since 2000. The raw data shows literally no trend at all. HadSST3 adjusted the trend upwards to create warming, and HadSST4 adjusts things upwards again, roughly doubling the previous adjustment. And this is in an era when the data quality should be excellent, thanks to the introduction of the ARGO float system.
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'Woke' Climate Scientists Reveal Deep, Hard-Core Biases In New Article
by Judith Curry, July 9, 2019 in ClimateChangeDispatch
It's getting worse.
About 5 years ago, I wrote two blog posts on climate scientists' pre-traumatic stress syndrome:
Pre-traumatic stress syndrome: climate trauma survival trips
Pre-traumatic stress syndrome: climate scientists speak out
Mother Jones has a new article on the same topic: It's the end of the world as they know it: The distinct burden of being a climate scientist.
The following scientists were interviewed: Kim Cobb, Priya Shukla, Peter Kalmus, Sarah Myhre, Jacquelyn Gill, Katharine Wilkinson, Eric Holthaus, David Grinspoon, Ken Caldeira.
Lots of 'trauma,' read the article to get a flavor. This sentence pretty much sums things up:
"There's deep grief and anxiety for what's being lost, followed by rage at continued political inaction, and finally hope that we can indeed solve this challenge. There are definitely tears and trembling voices."
End of civilization?
The title of the article is: "It's the end of the world as they know it." Some selected quotes:
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Scientists: Humans Perform As Well Or Better When Exposed To High (5000-15000 ppm) vs. Low CO2 Concentrations
by K. Richard, July 8, 2019 in NoTricksZone
A new paper finds the performance of test-taking (cognitive, decision-making) "astronaut-like" subjects exposed to 5000 ppm CO2 was "similar to or exceeded" the performance of those exposed to baseline (600 ppm). This study follows up on a 2018 paper that determined submariners exposed to 15000 ppm CO2 performed just as well as subjects exposed to 600 ppm.
Those of us who own CO2 monitors know that indoor (bedroom) CO2 concentrations typically vary between about 600 ppm during the day and 1000 ppm overnight – the latter earning a frowny face air quality rating.
CO2 is a cognitively-impairing toxin?
In recent years there has been a push to create the impression carbon dioxide is a pollutant, or toxin. Consequently, there have been a few studies suggesting exposure to higher CO2 concentrations (~1500 to 2500 ppm) severely impair human cognitive and decision-making performance (Satish et al., 2012, Allen et al., 2016).
If true, this would be rather problematic for elementary school children, as they are routinely exposed to CO2 concentrations ranging between about 1500 and 3000 ppm in their classrooms (Corsi et al., 2002).
Driving alone in one's vehicle could mean exposure to "3700 ppm … above outdoor [CO2] concentrations" (Satish et al, 2012), or about 4100 ppm.
This elevated-CO2-is-toxic-to-brain-functioning paradigm suggests the world's highways are teeming with cognitively-impaired drivers.
Capture et stockage du CO2 : une situation étrange…
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by Claude Mandril, 13 mai 2019 in ConnaissanceDesEnergies
La capture et le stockage de CO2 (CCS(1)) est indispensable…
Les accords de Paris ont donné l'objectif : un réchauffement climatique « well below 2°C » d'ici 2100 par rapport aux températures de l'ère préindustrielle.
Le dernier rapport du GIEC montre par ailleurs qu'on serait « beaucoup mieux » à + 1,5°C, et que tout dixième de degré compte : + 1,7°C vaut mieux que + 1,8°C. Il faut donc, ajoute le GIEC, atteindre la neutralité carbone autour de 2050.
Or il est complètement exclu d'arrêter toutes les émissions de gaz à effet de serre, et de loin ! :
l'AIE estime dans son scénario Sustainable Development (le plus contraignant)(2) que les énergies fossiles représenteront encore 60% de la fourniture mondiale d'énergie en 2040. Même si on juge l'AIE timorée, on est clairement hors limite ! ;
la capacité d'extraction charbonnière en Chine a augmenté de 6% en 2018 (selon la National Energy Administration en Chine) ;
et surtout, n'oublions pas les émissions « de procédé » (ciment, sidérurgie, chimie, agroalimentaire).
Donc il faudra des « puits » de carbone. En premier lieu, les forêts mais à condition qu'elles soient exploitées et que les produits de cette exploitation donnent un stockage permanent. L'incendie de Notre-Dame de Paris montre que ce n'est pas garanti… L'usage du bois en chaudière réduit les émissions en remplaçant des émissions de carbone fossile, mais ce n'est pas un puits (sauf avec CCS !).
Reste donc la CCS, qui est indispensable. D'ailleurs, sur les 4 scénarios du GIEC, 3 comportent le déploiement de la CCS, le 4e étant un repoussoir.
Et pourtant la CCS est complètement ignorée voire vilipendée, sauf dans une dizaine de pays.
Examinons les critiques ou les objections :
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What Humans Contribute to Atmospheric CO2: Comparison of Carbon Cycle Models with Observations
by Herman Harde, April 3, 2019 in Earth Sciences
Abstract: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assumes that the inclining atmospheric CO2 concentration over
recent years was almost exclusively determined by anthropogenic emissions, and this increase is made responsible for the rising
temperature over the Industrial Era. Due to the far reaching consequences of this assertion, in this contribution we critically
scrutinize different carbon cycle models and compare them with observations. We further contrast them with an alternative
concept, which also includes temperature dependent natural emission and absorption with an uptake rate scaling proportional
with the CO2 concentration. We show that this approach is in agreement with all observations, and under this premise not really
human activities are responsible for the observed CO2 increase and the expected temperature rise in the atmosphere, but just
opposite the temperature itself dominantly controls the CO2 increase. Therefore, not CO2 but primarily native impacts are
responsible for any observed climate changes.
Keywords: Carbon Cycle, Atmospheric CO2 Concentration, CO2 Residence Time, Anthropogenic Emissions,
Fossil Fuel Combustion, Land Use Change, Climate Change
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Human CO2 Emissions Have Little Effect on Atmospheric CO2
by Edwin X Berry , June, 2019 in JAtmOceanSciences
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) agrees human CO2 is only 5 percent and natural CO2 is 95 percent of the CO2 inflow into the atmosphere. The ratio of human to natural CO2 in the atmosphere must equal the ratio of the inflows. Yet IPCC claims human CO2 has caused all the rise in atmospheric CO2 above 280 ppm, which is now 130 ppm or 32 percent of today's atmospheric CO2. To cause the human 5 percent to become 32 percent in the atmosphere, the IPCC model treats human and natural CO2 differently, which is impossible because the molecules are identical. IPCC's Bern model artificially traps human CO2 in the atmosphere while it lets natural CO2 flow freely out of the atmosphere. By contrast, a simple Physics Model treats all CO2 molecules the same, as it should, and shows how CO2 flows through the atmosphere and produces a balance level where outflow equals inflow. Thereafter, if inflow is constant, level remains constant. The Physics Model has only one hypothesis, that outflow is proportional to level. The Physics Model exactly replicates the 14C data from 1970 to 2014 with only two physical parameters: balance level and e-time. The 14C data trace how CO2 flows out of the atmosphere. The Physics Model shows the 14 CO2 e-time is a constant 16.5 years. Other data show e-time for 12CO2 is about 4 to 5 years. IPCC claims human CO2 reduces ocean buffer capacity. But that would increase e-time. The constant e-time proves IPCC's claim is false. IPCC argues that the human-caused reduction of 14C and 13C in the atmosphere prove human CO2 causes all the increase in atmospheric CO2. However, numbers show these isotope data support the Physics Model and reject the IPCC model. The Physics Model shows how inflows of human and natural CO2 into the atmosphere set balance levels proportional to their inflows. Each balance level remains constant if its inflow remains constant. Continued constant CO2 emissions do not add more CO2 to the atmosphere. No CO2 accumulates in the atmosphere. Present human CO2 inflow produces a balance level of about 18 ppm. Present natural CO2inflow produces a balance level of about 392 ppm. Human CO2 is insignificant to the increase of CO2 in the atmosphere. Increased natural CO2 inflow has increased the level of CO2 in the atmosphere.
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Press Center In Focus 2016 ROUNDTABLE: Where's the Money for VR?
ROUNDTABLE: Where's the Money for VR?
For GBR's first ROUNDTABLE – Where's the Money for VR? Wanda Meloni was inspired to continue the discussion from a panel she moderated back at GamesBeat LA in August, Monetizing VR.
What genres in VR seen to be doing well now in terms of monetizing?
As you can see, the list is dominated by games but music and consumer monetize effectively, as well.
Guy Bendov: Linear video entertainment (movies, sports, music, events), games, communication, utilities. Each represent a need and VR can offer unique experience that can't be achieved with "flat" screens.
Sergey Galyonkin: There aren't enough games for VR to come to conclusions yet. The biggest limit is the market penetration, not genre.
When do you think we will see the inflection in hardware sales?
Marco DeMiroz: We expect the mobile VR inflection point starting with Daydream in 2017 with more to follow. At high end, the PSVR launch in Oct'16 is a major event to open up over 40M PS4 installed base.
Guy Bendov: Early in 2018. We are very encouraged by the growth of Gear VR, encouraged by the number of phone makers working on Daydream compatible phones and the market interest to extend the use of their phones to VR, AR and big screen viewing.
Once at least two of those are solved we might see some successes in the consumer market. At this point, I'm more optimistic about B2B and B2B2C solutions.
Mihir Shah: I think the next inflection point will be Holiday 2016 (this Nov / Dec). It coincides with the mobile device upgrade cycle as well as new devices from Google (Daydream) and Samsung.
What kinds of companies do you see developing VR now? To me it feels like mostly indie developer and 360 video at this point.
Marco DeMiroz: We see both, indie to large developers, and on the video front, also small to established production companies. The fact is that outside top 2-3, like Activision, EA, they can no longer ignore the market opportunity for VR/AR.
Guy Bendov: Established teams are being financed by the big players who have major interest to see quality apps and content in VR. In parallel you see a few entrepreneurial indie teams putting smaller productions to market, leading innovation with quick wins and fails.
Sergey Galyonkin: Every single game development company I know is doing VR prototyping, no matter how big or small the company is. The only difference is that most big companies aren't releasing anything until either the market is there or the hardware manufacturer (Oculus, Sony) will swallow the costs of the development.
Mihir Shah: There are three categories that we're seeing: (1) Indie Game Developers, (2) Established mobile players shifting (GREE, Glu, etc.), and (3) Entertainment guys such as Warner Bros, Fox, etc.
There are a number of platforms and APIs developers have to wade through, any thoughts on platforms and APIs?
Guy Bendov: Gear VR is one and Google merged Cardboard and Daydream. New SDKs are mostly connected to new platforms from Asia. Other than that, ads, analytics and other SDKs are a similar effort to developing a mobile app.
Marco DeMiroz: They need to be cross platform to expand monetization options, however, there is a significant difference between high end (Vive, Rift and PSVR) and mobile VR for a variety of reasons; input devices, motion space, etc. It is probably best to focus on high-end to cover, and optimize, for all high-end platforms, then move to Gear VR and Daydream. Unity and Unreal have done a terrific job building their VR/AR capabilities plus offering easy cross-platform options. I feel the challenge is less about the API but more of coming up with a fresh/novel/unique game design, storytelling, or 360 video experience to leverage the magic of VR/AR to amaze the audience.
Sergey Galyonkin: We're at early stages of VR development. I'm quite confident that we'll see developers rely more on tools provided by game engines than on manufacturers SDKs and APIs in the future.
Mihir Shah: Much of the fragmentation is mitigated by development platforms such as Unity and Unreal. Which is different from early Mobile when these guys didn't really exist. You can now develop in Unity and publish across VR platforms.
What would you say to a content company looking to monetize for VR right now?
Guy Bendov: Platform makers are looking for quality content, including payments. If you want to publish and can't or won't go for "platform money", the audience is still based on "premium enthusiasts" and ready to pay to great content. It is fair to expect many more users early next year with Daydream. There are more opportunities in Asia (China specifically) and it has to be part of everyone's business plan.
Marco DeMiroz: Move forward with contained expectations and adjust your expense profile to position your company for longevity. We do not favor big development budgets with long development time lines, unless completely funded by a platform partner. It is too early for large scale efforts. Our guidance to game companies is that they should be nimble and streamlined to develop rapidly with small teams and plan to iterate very aggressively by monitoring and analyzing user behaviors and adapting accordingly. Another factor to keep in mind that the current installed base is primarily early adopters thus with big appetite to purchase a lot of titles, the current user base behaviors may not reflect how the mass market will behave when VR/AR becomes a mainstream. Mobile gaming is now around $40B/yr market and we expect VR/AR to have a similar growth pattern.
Sergey Galyonkin: I'd say to look into B2B2C solutions – amusement parks, arcades and so on. There is a healthy market for these things in Russia and China already; it could be extended beyond those regions.
Mihir Shah: I don't think platform "sponsorships" are a viable business model. There are three ways to build a real business, (1) Premium – you charge to download / view, (2) Freemium – download is free, but upgrades and incremental content are driven by in app purchases and advertising, and (3) Ad supported free.


Do you remember studying the periodic table of the chemical elements in your high school chemistry class? The periodic table is a tabular arrangement of the chemical elements, organized on the basis of their atomic number (number of protons in the nucleus), electron configurations, and recurring chemical properties. Elements are presented in order of increasing atomic number, which is typically listed with the chemical symbol in each box.
Now let's look at a scripture that mentions the heavens passing "away with a great noise" and the "elements" melting with fervent heat.
Now this scripture is a challenge to understand due to the use of the word "elements". What does that word "elements" really mean?
Is there anywhere in Scripture that we find nations compared to heavenly bodies? The 1st chapter of Genesis gives us a clue as to why the Bible compares the sun, moon, and stars to rulers and their kingdoms.
Please, notice that the sun ("greater light") and the moon ("lesser light") are said to "govern the day" and "night." Notice the word "govern" in Gen. 1:16. To "govern" denotes a government! Can we find examples of the sun and moon being used as symbols of government? Why, of course!
In a dream, Joseph saw "the sun and the moon and the eleven stars" bowing down (obeisance) to him.


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Salisbury Restaurant's Cornbread Draws Many Fans
Filed Under:Corn pone, Cornbread, Kenny Chesney, Robert Ehrlich, Smith Island
SALISBURY, Md. (AP) — Some call it cornbread, some spoon bread and others corn pone, and it's being served up at Taylor's Chicken and Ribs restaurant.
Tina Padilla has spent years perfecting what she calls corn pone, even if it is introduced as cornbread on the menu.
No matter what you call it, Padilla's recipe has many fans –country singer Kenny Chesney has it sent to him at concert venues, and former Gov. Robert Ehrlich is a regular customer.
"We started out with a basic type of cornbread recipe and Tina, who is from Wenona and Oriole, consulted a Smith Island recipe and has `tweaked' everything to come up with her own version of cornbread — but it's more like a corn pone," said restaurant owner Jeanette Taylor.
"It really took us a while to get this just right," said Padilla, who has been with Taylor's for 15 years and is now manager
of the restaurant at 720 E. College Avenue. "I wanted to do it wet, to make a sweeter cornbread. I couldn't figure out how to do it. I didn't turn to a recipe book for a moister cornbread. I wanted to create something on my own."
Within that realm of creativity, Padilla experimented with different amounts of ingredients while seeking perfection.
"This was a challenge to me. … Sometimes we were having it separate on us, ending up with a real wet top and a real dry
bottom. We couldn't figure out why. Cornbread is temperamental. It took me a good year or so playing with the recipe to get it right," Padilla said. "We call it cornbread on the menu, but I think it's a corn pone. But some people say no, it's just wet corn bread. But it's corn pone, I think."
Some customers have come in asking for "Arkansas wedding cake," a Midwestern term for cornbread.
Home-cooked food is increasingly difficult to find on a restaurant menu, and Padilla and Taylor want the food they make to reflect the Shore's culinary "comfort food" history. Homecooking and tradition, like using Taylor's husband's grandmother's recipes in the business, is a key to success.
Tradition is something Taylor knows well; after all, she was the 1980 Miss National Outdoor Show queen. The late winter annual event in Dorchester County is world famous for the muskrat skinning contest, which is hosted by the show.
"This place is pure Eastern Shore," said longtime patron and Salisbury attorney Russell "Russ" Dashiell, "and the cornbread, wow."
"People come in and say `God, it's just like eating (old-time) Southern cornbread,"' Taylor said. "Some people want us to slice it and put pork or chicken barbecue between the slices, and served with slaw, it's delicious," Taylor said.
Sold by the slice, the half-pan or the whole 9-by-12-inch pan –including the pan — the cornbread has a loyal following.
Fannie Miles, now in her 80s and raised on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, said there was a time when cornbread and spoon bread was usually served with meals.
"Corn pone is an old, old style of corn bread, but people got away from that and went more for a moister `wet cornbread' or spoon bread," Miles said. "Because cornbread is made drier or wetter for each person's taste, it's hard to describe at what point it's a pone or spoon bread. I think cornbread and spoon bread is a real Southern dish. I think the deeper South you go, the more that cornbread changes into spoon bread. It just seemed that spoon bread was preferred by people with a higher cultural background."
Cornbread, corn pone and spoon bread were once meal staples, a menu item held in the same esteem as Maryland beaten biscuits. As word spreads that an old-time, Eastern Shore, made-from-scratch delicacy is being made at the restaurant, sales continue to climb.
While there are dozens of recipes readily available for cornbread, corn pone or spoon bread, you won't be using the one
featured at the restaurant.
"Nope," Padilla said "we don't share the recipe."
"I will tell you we use a lot of cream, a lot of eggs and a lot of butter," Taylor said. "People call all the time, `Do you mind
giving me the recipe?' and I tell them we don't give it out."
"We use some secret stuff, too," Padilla said.
"We don't cook it like people think, in a cast iron frying pan," Taylor said.
Yet one element that makes it stand out has nothing to do with ingredients.
"We also deep fry it for just a minute or so once it's been baked," Taylor said. "It almost caramelizes it at the corners."
That bit of frying gives the small slices a delicate, crisp accent. While the concept is not new, it works especially well with
Padilla's cornbread.
Fried a bit or not, the restaurant's cornbread version is a hit.
During the days before Christmas, they sell almost 200 pans of cornbread a day.
"It tastes just like my mother's cornbread," said Jane Ellen Mangason, who came in just to pick up several slices. "I've always called it wet cornbread, and this is delicious. You can also use it for dessert and it freezes well."
To make it a dessert, Padilla recommends adding a bit of butter and honey.
Information from: The Daily Times of Salisbury, Md., http://www.delmarvanow.com/
(Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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Imagine yourself as a young male schoolteacher in Pennsylvania about 150 years ago.
You have been invited to attend the Thirteenth Annual Session of the Pennsylvania State Teachers' Association in Gettysburg from July 31st to August 2nd, 1866. President Lincoln's assassination and the end of four unfathomably bloody and numbing years of war are only a few months removed in time. You have returned home from two years of military service but minus some family members, soldier colleagues, and friends. Though the gruesome and glorious events of 1861-1865 are forever etched in your memory, your job now, as it was for several months before you enlisted, is to educate schoolchildren.
The chance to see the famous Gettysburg battlefield is irresistible. While the battle raged there, you served in the 45th Pennsylvania Volunteer Regiment under the cousin of Pennsylvania Governor Curtin at the assault on Vicksburg. That Vicksburg and several other battles in which you participated never attained the fame of Gettysburg is still beyond your comprehension. For that reason, you want to see Gettysburg. Because the Pennsylvania State Teachers' Association has arranged for free rail fare, you have no excuse not to go.
You arrive in Gettysburg on the afternoon of July 30, 1866 at the same rail station from which wounded soldiers were borne off to hospitals back east only three years ago; you also make a mental note that President Lincoln and other famous American and foreign dignitaries passed through the same station. At the Gettysburg Courthouse you register for the event by paying an annual fee of $1.00. There you encounter the President of the State Teachers' Association, Dr. S.P. Bates, who asks you to act as a scrivener for the Session meetings and serve as the chronicler of arranged Gettysburg battlefield visits. He explains that if you agree, you will be asked to compose a written account for the September 1866 edition of the Pennsylvania School Journal. He knows of your stenography and writing skills and offers to pay you a nominal sum for your services. You are honored by the request and immediately consent.
After narrating "many incidents of the fight" and the first day's "positions held by the troops at different times in the day," Col. McFarland escorts your rapt and attentive group to the Lutheran Theological Seminary, also located on the battlefield, and then directs you to enter the building where his leg was amputated at a temporary hospital before the Confederates overran the position and took him prisoner. You think you hear him musing about where his amputated leg might be buried before he speaks with the highest praise for the services rendered by the surgeons and their assistants in that makeshift hospital which at present again functions as a school for higher education.
Thanks to the Colonel, you are beginning to understand the significance of Gettysburg.
Once upon the grounds of the National Cemetery, you are struck by the beauty of the final resting place for many of the Union soldiers killed at Gettysburg. It is classically simple, elegant, and geometrically curved in design. A poignant resting place with a commanding view.
Major Henry Thomas Lee was then a Professor in the Pardee Scientific Course of Lafayette College. He had "participated in the three days' battle, serving on the staff of GEN. DOUBLEDAY" as a member of the 4th New York Artillery. He knows what happened here during the battle.
Contemporary accounts by several journalists reported how Lincoln let loose with several tears that day on the speakers' platform during Rev. Stockton's opening prayer. He moistened up yet again much later at a point of time in Edward Everett's keynote oration when — "the sufferings of dying soldiers were recited [by Everett, and] scarcely a dry eye was visible, the President mingling his tears with those of the people." Boston Journal, November 23, 1863. A similar account appeared in the Boston Advertiser, November 23, 1863.
You don't fully understand the impact of Lincoln's words described by the introductory remarks of Major Lee until the Major reads aloud Lincoln's Dedicatory Address standing near where Lincoln had once stood on a platform. Lee orates it in a "clear and distinct voice … breaking the stillness of the solemn hour as though he stood alone upon the base of the [Soldiers'] monument." What he recites aloud to you and your fellow teachers stirs your deepest emotions.
As you depart Gettysburg by train on August 2, 1866, headed for the depot in Hanover Junction, you reflect on the sights of and stories told on the Gettysburg battlefield and compare them in your mind to your own wartime experiences. You think of your dead friends and comrades left behind in makeshift graves in southern states who deserve a final resting place and honors of burial in a setting like the Gettysburg Soldiers' Cemetery. But you also reflect upon the realization that some of what you have experienced in your three full days at Gettysburg faintly echoes elements of the Gettysburg Cemetery Dedication events. You understand your good fortune; this is as close as anyone could possibly have come to time traveling back to Gettysburg on November 19, 1863. From henceforth, you resolve that your curriculum for all students shall include the memorization and recitation of Lincoln's Dedicatory Address at Gettysburg.
And it is your hope that enduring peace, prosperity, and a new birth of freedom shall be experienced by the next generation.
One thing which really struck me when I first read the 1866 Pennsylvania School Journal article was its glowing praise of what we now call the "Gettysburg Address," the statement that "it has already passed into our recently published school speakers," and its earnest prodding that teachers should make their students memorize it. There are many historians who believe that the Gettysburg Address wasn't widely embraced until much later when the cult of Lincoln had firmly taken root. This article suggests that many Pennsylvania teachers began emphasizing it in their classrooms relatively shortly after it was delivered — which might have occurred elsewhere too (e.g., this article was republished in the Oct. 1866 Rhode Island Schoolmaster journal). Having attended the moving 150th anniversary event at the Gettysburg National Cemetery in 2013, I have experienced the power of historical recreation. To have experienced Gettysburg in such a way in 1866 must have been quite an experience for anyone the least bit interested in American history. With all due respect to the undeniable talents of the recently deceased and beloved James A. Getty (may he rest in peace), the sincerity of Lincoln's words narrated in the cemetery by a soldier/schoolteacher who had less than 3 years earlier witnessed Lincoln speak must have been even more powerfully conveyed and felt in 1866 than is possible today.
As for John Burns serving as one of the guides during the State Teachers' Association visit, it wasn't the only time he did such a thing. "Without realizing it, perhaps, the battle's 'civilian hero' helped inaugurate a unique, distinctly individualistic, and somewhat lucrative occupation for some Gettysburg citizens" — serving as a battlefield guide. Bloom, Robert L., "'We Never Expected a Battle': The Civilians at Gettysburg, 1863," Pennsylvania History, Vol. 55, No. 4 (October 1988) at p. 190.
The gallant soldier's feelings burst over all restraint; and burrying [sic] his face in his manly frame shook with no unmanly emotion. In a few moments, with a stern struggle to master his emotions, he lifted his still streaming eyes to heaven and in low and solemn tones exclaimed, "God Almighty bless Abraham Lincoln!" And to this spontaneous invocation a thousand hearts around him silently responded, Amen!
 This account is based upon and quotes from "Thirteenth Annual Session of the Pennsylvania State Teachers' Association," Pennsylvania School Journal, September 1866, vol.15, No. 3, pp. 58-60. It imagines that you are one of the attendees at the session meeting and you have written at least the quoted sections from the above-cited article. I have taken the liberty of describing you as a veteran of the 45th Pennsylvania Regiment who after the war has returned to your job somewhere in Pennsylvania as a schoolteacher. All of the quoted language in this article relating to the Thirteenth Annual Session of the Pennsylvania State Teachers' Association held in Gettysburg on July 31 and August 2, 1866 is from the published piece in the Pennsylvania School Journal, Vol.15, No. 3 (September 1866) first noted below in footnote 6 unless otherwise indicated.
 "You" are a fictitious character throughout this piece whom I have created in the attempt to place the reader into the shoes of a schoolteacher attendee at the Pennsylvania State Teachers' Association Session in Gettysburg on July 31 and August 1, 1866. You are there primarily to see the battlefield and understand all of the hoopla over its fame. While there, you meet and speak to Rev. Henry L. Baugher, President of the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg who gave the closing benediction on the speakers' stand seconds after Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address;" John L. Burns (the "Hero of Gettysburg") who likewise was present at the dedication event and walked arm-in-arm with President Lincoln to Gettysburg's Presbyterian Church after the dedication ceremonies and a public reception at David Wills' home; Colonel George Fisher McFarland, who was wounded at Gettysburg on July 1 while covering the First Corps' retreat and had one of his legs amputated in the halls of the Lutheran Theological Seminary; and Major Henry T. Lee who both served at the Battle of Gettysburg under Doubleday and attended the Gettysburg Soldiers' Cemetery Dedication event on November 19, 1863. Burns, McFarland, and Lee, among others, serve as your guides, taking you to some of the most dramatic portions of the battlefield and they describe to you what they saw and experienced. On Cemetery Hill, standing in the Soldiers' National Cemetery, Maj. Lee paints a picture of Lincoln's address and then reads it in the way he recalls that Lincoln did less than 3 years earlier. Some of what you experience faintly echoes elements of the Gettysburg Cemetery Dedication event. It is a close as you will ever come to having been in Gettysburg on November 19, 1863.
 Perhaps there really was a member of the 45th Pennsylvania Regiment who survived the war, took a job as a teacher, and attended the Gettysburg Session of the Pennsylvania State Teachers' Association held on July 31 to August 1, 1866. However, I'm not aware of such a person. If you do know of someone, by all means, let me know!
 Burrows, Thomas H., ed., "Thirteenth Annual Session of the Pennsylvania State Teachers' Association," Pennsylvania School Journal, Vol.15, No. 3 (September 1866) at p. 51.
 History of Cumberland County and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania (Beers & Co., 1886) at p. 372.
 Pennsylvania School Journal, Vol.15, No. 3 (September 1866) at pp. 51-52; Shelley was an advocate of the use of paying teacher incentives to reward quality teaching. See Wickersham, J.P., A History of Education in Pennsylvania, Private and Public Schools (1868) at pp. 8-9.
 Cincinnati Daily Commercial, November 24, 1863.
 Not only had McFarland lost his leg, but his other wounded leg caused him great pain. It is presumed that he was transported about by horse-drawn carriage.
 Eventually, the wound received in his unamputated leg caused an infection which killed him in 1891. For more on the 151st Pennsylvania, see http://www.civilwar.org/education/teachers/teachers-regiment/trading-rulers-for-rifles.html.
 "Colonel McFarland's Diary Reveals War-School Career," Gettysburg Times, June 27, 1941; Deese, Michael A., The 151st Pennsylvania Volunteers at Gettysburg: Like Ripe Apples in a Storm at p. 6. For ideas related to teaching about McFarland, see http://www.gettysburglessons.com/blog/george-mcfarland-narrow-your-focus.
 McFarland, George F., "The Victory at Gettysburg, the Work of the Teacher," The Pennsylvania School Journal (October 1866) at pp. 95-96.
 https://www.facebook.com/pages/151st-Pennsylvania-Volunteers-Company-D/138961739475266?sk=wall (July 23, 2014 entry on Capt. Owens).
 Captain Owens took command of the 151st Pennsylvania after Lt. Colonel McFarland was wounded and later captured. He maintained that command throughout the remaining days of the battle. "Colonel McFarland's Diary Reveals War-School Career," Gettysburg Times, June 27, 1941. The 151st was involved in repulsing "Pickett's Charge" on the final day of battle and surely Captain Owen spoke about what he experienced near the Bloody Angle.
 Allen, Isaac Jackson. Memoranda Genealogical and Biographical Of the Allen Family (1904) at p. 25.


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Keith Watson (1935-1994) est un auteur de bande dessinée réaliste britannique principalement connu pour son travail sur Dan Dare, dont il est considéré le meilleur repreneur.

Biographie
En 1958, Watson entre aux studios de Frank Hampson et commence à travailler sur Dan Dare, série publié dans l'hebdomadaire Eagle qu'il lisait depuis son enfance. Lorsque Hampson quitte la série quelques mois plus tard, Watson va travailler deux ans pour le magazine concurrent  en dessinant la série Captain Condor écrite par sur des scénarios de Frank Stuart Pepper. En 1962, il revient à Eagle comme seul auteur de Dan Dare jusqu'en 1966. Dans les années 1970, il travaille surtout sur des adaptations dessinées de séries télévisées à la mode, comme Capitaine Scarlet ou Joe 90.

Au début des années 1980, Watson s'oriente vers le marché néerlandais en reprenant la série de football  d'Andries Brandt et Jan Steeman dans Eppo avec les scénaristes Dave Hunt puis Jaap Bubenik.

En 1989, Watson crée quelques dernières planches de Dan Dare lorsqu'Eagle est relancé. Il meurt d'un cancer en 1994.

Publications françaises
 Captain Condor, dans Aventures Fiction, 1969-71.

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Naissance en février 1935
Naissance dans le Yorkshire du Nord
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Décès à Sutton (borough londonien)
Décès à 59 ans
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Egyptian man thought to be senior Al-Qaeda figure hands himself to police to clear name
London, Thu, 01 Mar 2012 ANI
London, Mar 1 (ANI): An Egyptian man whose name was on an FBI 'most wanted' list as an alias for a senior Al-Qaeda figure has handed himself in to the police in a bid to clear his reputation.
The news that Mohammed Ibrahim Mekkawi, a former member of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, had been arrested at Cairo Airport caused a brief flurry of excitement at the possibility that the senior terrorist operative also known as "Saif al-Adel", or "Sword of Justice", had been captured.
But Makkawi denied any links to the terrorist network and claimed it was a case of mistaken identity.
"What has been said about me is lies. I never took part in actions against people or installations," The Telegraph quoted him, as saying.
The confusion was all the more surprising because the Egyptian authorities said they had been informed in advance that he was returning to clear up the misunderstanding, the paper said.
Mekkawi told reporters and analysts repeatedly by email from a hiding place in Pakistan that he was not the man they sought.
"I decided to come to Egypt to live in peace and because I am certain of my innocence," he said.
Egyptian-born Al-Adel has been indicted by the United States for an alleged role in the August 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, which killed 224 people.
He was briefly announced as the interim leader after the death of Osama bin Laden last year, until the formal appointment of Zawahiri to replace him.
Meanwhile, US officials also said they did not believe the man arrested was a senior al-Qaeda figure.
"We're aware of reports of an arrest in Cairo and are working with Egyptian authorities to determine the identity of the man arrested," the paper quoted an FBI spokesman, as saying. (ANI)
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Even older red dwarf stars are pumping out a surprising amount of deadly radiation at their planets
Most of the potentially habitable exoplanets we've discovered orbit small red dwarf stars. Red dwarfs make up about 75% of the stars in our galaxy. Only about 7.5% of stars are g-type like our Sun. As we look for life on other worlds, red dwarfs would seem to be their most likely home. But red dwarfs pose a serious problem for habitable worlds.
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Beyond "Fermi's Paradox" X: What is the Firstborn Hypothesis?
Welcome back to our Fermi Paradox series, where we take a look at possible resolutions to Enrico Fermi's famous question, "Where Is Everybody?" Today, we examine the possibility that the reason for the Great Silence is that we are "early to the party"!
In 1950, Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi sat down to lunch with some of his colleagues at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he had worked five years prior as part of the Manhattan Project. According to various accounts, the conversation turned to aliens and the recent spate of UFOs. Into this, Fermi issued a statement that would go down in the annals of history: "Where is everybody?"
This became the basis of the Fermi Paradox, which refers to the disparity between high probability estimates for the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) and the apparent lack of evidence. Since Fermi's time, there have been several proposed resolutions to his question, which includes the Firstborn Hypothesis that states that humanity could be the first intelligent life to emerge in our galaxy.
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Astronomers Thought They'd Found a Red Dwarf That Wasn't Hostile to its Habitable Zone Planets. They Were Wrong
In the past decade, the study of exoplanets has grown by leaps and bounds. At present, a total of 4,201 planets have been confirmed beyond the Solar System and another 5,481 candidates await confirmation. In the midst of all this, M-type red dwarf stars have become a focus of exoplanet research because they appear to be the most likely place where rocky (aka. Earth-like) planets can be found orbiting within the star's habitable zone (HZ).
However, that does not mean that red dwarf stars are good candidates for hosting habitable planets. Take GJ 887, for example, one of the brightest M stars in the sky that has a system of two (possibly three) planets. In the past, this star was believed to be calm and stable, but new research by astronomers from Arizona State University has shown that GJ 887 might not be so calm as previously thought.
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How Did the TRAPPIST-1 Planets Get Their Water?
In 2017, an international team of astronomers announced a momentous discovery. Based on years of observations, they found that the TRAPPIST-1 system (an M-type red dwarf located 40 light-years from Earth) contained no less than seven rocky planets! Equally exciting was the fact that three of these planets were found within the star's Habitable Zone (HZ), and that the system itself has had 8 billion years to develop the chemistry for life.
At the same time, the fact that these planets orbit tightly around a red dwarf star has given rise to doubts that these three planets could maintain an atmosphere or liquid water for very long. According to new research by an international team of astronomers, it all comes down to the composition of the debris disk that the planets formed from and whether or not comets were around to distribute water afterward.
The Perfect Stars to Search for Life On Their Planets
We tend to think of our Earthly circumstances as normal. A watery, temperate world orbiting a stable yellow star. A place where life has persisted for nearly 4 billion years. It's almost inevitable that when we think of other places where life could thrive, we use our own experience as a benchmark.
But should we?
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TESS Finds its First Earth-Sized World in the Habitable Zone of a Star
NASA's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) has found its first Earth-sized planet located in the habitable zone of its host star. The find was confirmed with the Spitzer Space Telescope. This planet is one of only a few Earth-sized worlds ever found in a habitable zone.
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Geothermal Heating Could Make Life Possible on the Super Earth Planet at Barnard's Star
In 2018, scientists announced the discovery of a extrasolar planet orbiting Barnard's star, an M-type (red dwarf) that is just 6 light years away. Using the Radial Velocity method, the research team responsible for the discovery determined that this exoplanet (Barnard's Star b) was at least 3.2 times as massive as Earth and experienced average surface temperatures of about -170 °C (-274 °F) – making it both a "Super-Earth" and "ice planet".
Based on these findings, it was a foregone conclusion that Barnard b would be hostile to life as we know it. But according to new study by a team of researchers from Villanova University and the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC), it is possible – assuming the planet has a hot iron/nickel core and experiences enhanced geothermal activity – that this giant iceball of a planet could actually support life.
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Habitable Planets Around Red Dwarf Stars Might not get Enough Photons to Support Plant Life
In recent years, the number of extra-solar planets discovered around nearby M-type (red dwarf stars) has grown considerably. In many cases, these confirmed planets have been "Earth-like", meaning that they are terrestrial (aka. rocky) and comparable in size to Earth. These finds have been especially exciting since red dwarf stars are the most common in the Universe – accounting for 85% of stars in the Milky Way alone.
Unfortunately, numerous studies have been conducted of late that indicate that these planets may not have the necessary conditions to support life. The latest comes from Harvard University, where postdoctoral researcher Manasvi Lingam and Professor Abraham Loeb demonstrate that planets around M-type stars may not get enough radiation from their stars for photosynthesis to occur.
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Bad News. Planets Orbiting Red Dwarfs Might not have the Raw Materials for Life
New research from the Hubble Space Telescope and the ESO's Very Large Telescope is dampening some of the enthusiasm in the search for life. Observations by both 'scopes suggest that the raw materials necessary for life may be rare in solar systems centered around red dwarfs.
And if the raw materials aren't there, it may mean that many of the exoplanets we've found in the habitable zones of other stars just aren't habitable after-all.
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A Red Dwarf Blasts off a Superflare. Any Life on its Planets Would Have a Very Bad Day
The most common type of star in the galaxy is the red dwarf star. None of these small, dim stars can be seen from Earth with the naked eye, but they can emit flares far more powerful than anything our Sun emits. Two astronomers using the Hubble space telescope saw a red dwarf star give off a powerful type of flare called a superflare. That's bad news for any planets in these stars' so-called habitable zones.
Red dwarfs make up about 75% of the stars in the Milky Way, so they probably host many exoplanets. In fact, scientists think most of the planets that are in habitable zones are orbiting red dwarfs. But the more astronomers observe these stars, the more they're becoming aware of just how chaotic and energetic it can be in their neighbourhoods. That means we might have to re-think what habitable zone means.
"When I realized the sheer amount of light the superflare emitted, I sat looking at my computer screen for quite some time just thinking, 'Whoa.'" – Parke Loyd, Arizona State University.
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The Compassion Connection
"In a world where we are quick to define 'otherness,' Nerney shows us the road to 'oneness.' She helps us see ways that the invisible heart of God is being made more visible to the world." —Daniel Groody, CSC, University of Notre Dame
Catherine T. Nerney, a Sister of St. Joseph, gently guides the reader on a narrative journey through and toward compassion for our fellow human beings, emphasizing our connectedness rather than our perceived differences. This small but powerful volume invites the local and universal Church to tear down walls of fear, certainty, and privilege, and to surrender to God's compassionate heart as it beats in our broken world.
Intended as a connected series of reflective writings that impels action, this is a valuable resource for social activists, parish groups, and spiritual seekers looking for new ways to appreciate and deepen their faith.
Catherine T. Nerney, SSJ is associate professor of religious studies at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia, PA. She has directed the college's Institute for Forgiveness and Reconciliation since its inception in 2009. The author of numerous books, she writes from years of academic teaching, workshops, and writings on the worlds of social reconciliation and interfaith dialogue.
Recovering Our Original Oneness
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