I find myself communicating with Nisarg very easily. He is just 7 weeks old. If I have to look back and see what helped me the most, the single biggest thing was observation. Endless observation. Listening. Endless listening.
I found myself constantly putting myself in his shoes and trying to understand the context of his expressions and sounds. He is less than two months old, but I can confidently tell when he is hungry, tired, in pain, excited, scared, etc. Its less easy for him to understand me, but its clear that he understands a couple of things. The first is the most important – he can count on me. The second is more "provable". He mimics me. He gets it clearly when I make a face and want him to imitate it. He will often attempt after I say "you try it" or similar.
He astounded his massage woman by consistently sticking his tongue out to say "bye" as she left, since she swaddled him and he can't wave (not that he can if not swaddled). First couple of days, she and the mother in law thought it was coincidence – "babies stick their tongues out all the time". Sure. But what if they stick it out after you have stuck yours out when they had their mouths firmly closed? We did it and showed, and we still show our tongue on demand. Will post a video.
So far, he will make an "o" with his lips, stick his tongue out, open his mouth wide (convenient for medicines), and tries but can't wiggle his brows (he frowns).
On a more useful, but less fun vein, he will cry loudly in a certain way when he wants to pee, hold eye contact and make restless movements with his head to burp, and many other actions that I could write down and anyone can confirm. My husband called me when I'd gone to the shop saying that he was crying and wouldn't stop – kicking out, arching, pulling up his knees…. was he hungry? What to do? Its a sign of his belief in my understanding Nisarg that he asked when I couldn't really see or hear him. Just the description was enough. Poor baby had gas stuck. Told Raka to put him down, raise his legs and if that didn't work, pick him, keep changing positions (from one hand to another, on lap, etc) but always horizontal and with legs in the fetal position.
Raka says the baby was relieved almost immediately. Another instance was when I was cooking and heard Nisarg cry. I yelled for Raka to get him to the wash basin for a pee immediately, and that was that.
And I have plans. Plans to help him share more of his world with me. I'm hoping to establish basic yes/no signals. No is easy, crying or frowning, but the yes can be tricky. He needs to realize that he can approve of something and I will pay attention. Well… maybe in a week or two….
Respond based on that guess.
Observe your baby. What was the impact of your response? Did the original behaviour change? Become more specific? End? What happened?
More than the first behaviour and the new one, its the change and when it happened that's the key.
For example, baby may be staring at your face. You respond by turning so that more light falls on your face. Baby may wave his hand in your direction – so your guess that he was "exploring your face" was correct. I sometimes even praise Nisarg for telling me so clearly when something really "clicks" because of this team work. Or, baby may whimper – okay, wrong guess – what could it be? Could he want something? You could ask him that and it becomes a response. Maybe he wanted attention and talk and he will quiet. Maybe he is hungry and will start crying louder when he sees you doing things, but not what he wants….
Soon, you get really quick with this.
This is the failsafe method for communication development with your baby. Even a couple of hours have the power to transform your relationship, and you don't have to do anything drastically different from what you do.


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Luis Antonio Castillo Donato (nacido el 12 de septiembre de 1975 en San Pedro de Macorís) es un segunda base dominicano que jugó en la Liga Mayor de Béisbol. Castillo es un tres veces All-Star, tres veces ganador del Guante de Oro, y campeón en la Serie Mundial con los Marlins de Florida en 2003.

Carrera

Primeros años
El 19 de agosto de 1992, Castillo fue firmado como amateur por los Marlins de Florida. En 1994 jugó su primer año en el béisbol profedional en la Liga Costa del Golfo (Gulf Coast League), jugando para los Gulf Coast League Marlins. También estableció un récord en bases robadas para un campocorto, con 31.

En 1995, fue llamado a filas para los Kane County Cougars en la Clase-A Midwest League, y fue seleccionado para el Juego de Estrellas. Se lesionó el hombro en julio, lo que le causó perder el resto de la temporada. Ese año, lideró toda la organización de los Marlins en promedio de bateo con .326, además de quedar en segundo lugar en bases robadas.

Castillo pasó la mayor parte de la temporada 1996 en la Liga del Este, pero fue llamado a los Marlins a mitad de temporada e hizo su debut en Grandes Ligas el 8 de agosto. Su primer hit en las mayores se produjo en un partido contra los Mets de Nueva York, donde tocó e impulsó la carrera del triunfo en la 10.ª entrada. Fue nombrado al equipo All-Star de la Liga del Este y para el equipo All-Star de la postemporada.

Florida Marlins

1997-1999
Castillo comenzó a jugar a tiempo completo para los Marlins en la segunda base durante la temporada de 1997. Ambos de 21 años de edad, él y Edgar Rentería fueron la combinación segunda base-shortstop más joven dentro del infielder en la historia de la Liga Nacional. Castillo se golpeó el talón izquierdo a mitad de temporada, y se perdió todo el mes de mayo por la lesión. Fue enviado al equipo Triple-A, los Charlotte Knights el 28 de julio y no regresó a las Grandes Ligas hasta la temporada siguiente. Debido a esto, no pudo jugar para los Marlins durante la Serie Mundial de 1997.

Castillo se quedó con los Charlotte Knights hasta que fue llamado de vuelta a los Marlins el 4 de agosto de 1998. Si bien en Charlotte, tuvo una racha de 32 partidos consecutivos llegando a la base de forma segura. Con los Marlins, su mejor racha exitosa fue ocho partidos, entre el 14 y 19 de agosto. Al final de la temporada, fue tercero entre los jugadores de ligas menores de los Marlins en bases robadas, y tuvo un promedio de bateo de .203, 3 bases robadas y 10 impulsadas.

Castillo mejoró en 1999, con muchas rachas cortas de bateo. Estas rachas incluye seis partidos del 10 al 17 de mayo y los seis juegos del 1 al 7 de agosto. También tuvo una racha de bateo de 22 juegos en un tramo comprendido entre el 9 de agosto y el 3 de septiembre. Terminó cuarto en la liga en bases robadas, y fue el cuarto entre los bateadores en porcentaje de embasarse con .385. Fue nombrado el Jugador Más Valioso de los Marlins por el South Florida Chapter de la Baseball Writers Association of America.

2000–02
Castillo comenzó la temporada 2000 con una racha de bateo de siete juegos del 5 al 12 de abril a pesar de que fue colocado en la lista de lesionados por un desgarro en la espalda poco después. Una semana después de regresar, Castillo estableció un récord dentro del equipo de un solo partido con cuatro bases robadas el 17 de mayo. Tuvo 3 en el próximo partido, por debajo del récord de la Liga Nacional de 8 en dos partidos, establecido por Walt Wilmot en 1894. En el 2000 también se convirtió en el líder de todos los tiempos de los Marlins en bases robadas por el robo de su base 116 de su carrera el 20 de junio durante un partido contra los Cerveceros de Milwaukee. Terminó la temporada con 62 bases robadas, liderando las Grandes Ligas.

En 2001, Castillo tuvo dos largas racas de bateo, ocho juegos del 6 al 13 de mayo y 14 juegos del 29 de junio al 22 de julio. Terminó quinto en la liga en bases robadas con 33. También tuvo un promedio de bateo de .263, 45 carreras impulsadas y 10 triples, estableciendo un récord personal.

En 2002, Castillo tuvo una racha de bateo 35 juegos, que es la más larga hecha por un segunda base (hasta que el segunda base de los Filis de Filadelfia Chase Utley empatara en 2006). Esta fue la sexta racha más larga en la historia de la Liga Nacional, y la décima más larga en la historia de las Grandes Ligas. Castillo jugó la segunda base en el Juego de Estrellas del 2002, la primera selección All-Star de su carrera. En el 2002 bateó .305 con 39 carreras impulsadas y 48 bases robadas, líder en la liga en bases robadas por segunda vez en su carrera. Fue nombrado de nuevo el Jugador Más Valioso de los Marlins por el South Florida Chapter de la Baseball Writers Association of America.

2003–05
Castillo fue miembro del equipo de estrellas de la Liga Nacional en 2003, la segunda selección All-Star de su carrera. También lideró a los Marlins en bateo y ganó su primer Guante de Oro. Castillo fue una figura central en la Serie de Campeonato de la Liga Nacional de 2003 en el Juego 6 de los Marlins contra los Cachorros de Chicago en el Wrigley Field después de que una pelota de foul que él bateó fue desviada del fildeo del jardinero de los Cachorros Moisés Alou por el fanático Steve Bartman. Los Marlins ganaron ese juego, así como el Juego 7 para llegar a la Serie Mundial del 2003, en el que los Marlins derrotaron a los grandes favoritos Yankees de Nueva York. Esta fue la segunda Serie Mundial en la carrera de Castillo, pero la primera en la que realmente jugó.

En 2004, Castillo tuvo un promedio de bateo de .291 con 47 carreras impulsadas. También tuvo dos jonrones y 7 triples. Ocupó el segundo lugar sólo después de su compañero de equipo Juan Pierre con un porcentaje de embasarse de .373 y estableció un récord en los Marlins con su 425 carrera anotada para pasarle por delante a la marca anterior de Gary Sheffield de 424. Castillo ganó su segundo Guante de Oro y registró el segundo mejor porcentaje de fildeo de la Liga Nacional para un segunda base (.991), detrás de Plácido Polanco de Filadelfia.

En su última temporada con los Marlins, Castillo ganó su tercer Guante de Oro consecutivo. Encabezó las Grandes Ligas en bateo contra lanzadores zurdos con un promedio de .423. Castillo fue también miembro del equipo de estrellas de 2005 de la Liga Nacional, y se sustituyó a Jeff Kent de los Dodgers de Los Ángeles en la segunda base en la segunda entrada. Fue traspasado a los Mellizos de Minnesota el 2 de diciembre de 2005, a cambio de dos jugadores de ligas menores, Scott Tyler y Travis Bowyer. Los Marlins sustituyeron a Castillo en la segunda base por Dan Uggla.

Minnesota Twins

En 2006, Castillo comenzó su única temporada completa jugando para los Mellizos de Minnesota. Tuvo un primer mes impresionante, bateando .432 con 19 hits. Durante ese lapso, Castillo remolcó carreras en cinco juegos consecutivos desde del 13 al 19 de abril. Castillo tuvo tres juegos de cuatro hits para los Mellizos en esta temporada, el 15 de abril, 5 de agosto y 9 de agosto. Tuvo una racha de bateo de seis partidos del 6 al 13 de mayo y registró base robada número 300 de su carrera mientras se enfrentaba a los Medias Blancas de Chicago el 26 de agosto.

En la temporada 2007, Castillo estableció un nuevo récord de Grandes Ligas, pasando 143 partidos en la segunda base sin un error. También registró su hit número 1,500 de su carrera el 29 de mayo mientras se enfrentaba a los Medias Blancas de Chicago. Castillo fue traspasado por los Mellizos a los Mets de Nueva York el 30 de julio de 2007, por dos jugadores de ligas menores, el receptor Drew Butera y el jardinero Dustin Martin. Terminó la temporada con un promedio de bateo de .301 con un jonrón, 38 remolcadas y 19 bases robadas. El 18 de noviembre los Mets lo volvieron a firmar con un contrato de 4 años y un valor de unos $25 millones de dólares.

New York Mets

Castillo tuvo un buen final para la temporada 2007 después de ser cambiado. Alcanzó las bases 40 veces de sus últimos 46 juegos y anotó 34 carreras en sus últimos 42 juegos. En 50 juegos con los Mets, Castillo bateó .296 con 20 carreras impulsadas y 10 bases robadas.

En 2008, un año plagado de lesiones y varias tandas en la banca, Castillo bateó .245 en 87 juegos, pero se las arregló para robar 17 bases en 19 intentos.

En el spring training de 2009, Castillo lideró todos los jugadores de las mayores en bases por bolas, con 17 de 56 turnos oficiales al bate. El 16 de marzo de 2009, a Castillo se le presentó la oportunidad de batear sólo con la mano derecha en vez de ser un bateador ambidiestro. Aunque halagado por la oferta, se negó, y siguió siendo un bateador ambidiestro en el resto de su carrera. Aunque los Mets no brilalron tanto como equipo, Castillo tuvo un año relativamente bueno en el '09, bateando para .302 con 77 carreras anotadas y un porcentaje de embasarse de .387. El 12 de junio, Castillo cometió un error de dos carreras en el Yankee Stadium, lo que le valió una de la infamia en la rivalidad entre los Mets y los Yankees.

El 4 de junio de 2010, los Mets de enviaron a Castillo a la lista de lesionados por problemas en los pies. Fue reemplazado por Rubén Tejada, quien jugó en la segunda base en la victoria de los Mets 5-4 ante los Marlins de la Florida en el Citi Field. Fue criticado junto con Carlos Beltrán y el mexicano Oliver Pérez por no ir al hospital donde había soldados a los que le habían amputado los brazos y las piernas, él afirmó que no quería estar horrorizado por la experiencia. Castillo comentó que no estaba contento con su tiempo de juego y "tiene que resolverlo en esta temporada baja". Durante el spring training de 2010, fue abucheado por los fanáticos locales en el Digital Domain Park, donde los Mets juegan sus partidos en la pretemporada. Fue liberado del roster de spring training de los Mets el 18 de marzo de 2011.

Philadelphia Phillies
El 21 de marzo de 2011, Castillo firmó un contrato de ligas menores con los Filis de Filadelfia. El 22 de marzo, se reportó al campo de entrenamiento de los Filis. Fue liberado poco después, el 30 de marzo de 2011.

Vida personal
Castillo se graduó en la promioción de 1991 del Colegio San Benito Abad en la República Dominicana. Está casado y tiene dos hijos - Luis Jr., nacido el 12 de octubre de 2001, y Adonai, nacido el 30 de julio de 2009.

En su tiempo libre, a Castillo le gusta jugar dominó y billar. Vive Actualmente En Miami Junto A Su Esposa E Hijos

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 MLB
 ESPN
 Baseball-Reference
 Fangraphs
 The Baseball Cube
 Perfil en CBS Sportsline

Beisbolistas de República Dominicana
Segundas base de República Dominicana
Beisbolistas de Florida Marlins
Beisbolistas de Minnesota Twins
Beisbolistas de New York Mets
Nacidos en la provincia San Pedro de Macorís

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The Marquis de Lafayette
The Lafayette Story
Soldier. Scholar. Revolutionary.
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If there was a rock star of the American Revolution, it was a man who went by an impressively lengthy name: Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette. Born in 1757, Lafayette was a young, handsome, rich and brave French aristocrat who defied his own king to enter the Revolutionary War in America to support the cause of freedom in the New World. After his success as a military leader, he became a renowned statesman whose support for individual rights made him a beloved and respected figure on two continents.
Born into a family with illustrious ancestors on both sides, Lafayette at first appeared destined for a conventional aristocratic, military career. But he had other ideas. He adopted the motto "Cur Non" ("Why Not?") for his coat of arms and joined the Freemasons in 1775. Two years later, at the age of 20, and lured by the idea of a nation fighting for liberty, he bought a ship and sailed to America to volunteer in General George Washington's army.
He explained his attraction to the revolutionary cause in a letter to his wife: "The welfare of America is intimately connected with the happiness of all mankind; she will become the respectable and safe asylum of virtue, integrity, tolerance, equality, and a peaceful liberty."
He first saw action at the Battle of Brandywine in 1777 where he was shot in the leg and spent two months recovering from his wound at the Moravian Settlement in Bethlehem. His heroism in the battle encouraged George Washington to give the young Frenchman command of a division and Lafayette stayed with his troops at Valley Forge. After a brief visit to France in 1779, he returned to the Revolution in 1781 and helped contain British troops at Yorktown in the last major battle of the war.
As principal author of the "Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen," written in 1789 in conjunction with Thomas Jefferson, he also helped propel the French Revolution. As an ardent supporter of emancipation and a member of anti-slavery societies in France and America, Lafayette lobbied for the restoration of civil rights to French Protestants and he was instrumental in ensuring that religious freedom be granted to Protestants, Jews, and other non-Catholics.
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module CatMother
  module Opcode
    class Fmul
      MNEMONIC = "fmul"
      OPCODE = 0x6a
      OPERANDS = 0
      POPS = 2
      PUSHES = 1
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      include CatMother::OpcodeGroup::NoOperands

      def initialize(io, pc)
        parse_operands(io, pc)
      end
    end
  end
end

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Recently, a friend showed me an excerpt from a book about words and their meanings. The author was critiquing the biased nature of the dictionary, of all things, using the definition of civilization as an example. Civilization, she argued, should not be generally defined as "advanced" unless the dictionary was (and I paraphrase here) the White, Male, European version. She is obviously referring to the history of genocide enacted in the name of civilization. But as a history major, I tend to bristle at such casual generalizations. Who, exactly, are these white, male, European evil-doers? And how are they differentiated from any other culture, race, or nation-state? There is no doubt that, looking strictly at numbers, Europeans probably take the top spot for evil, but Asian and Middle Eastern cultures are just as infamous. It would be like arguing that Ted Bundy is somehow a better person when compared to Jeffrey Dahmer: it's pointless. Even the Spanish conquistadors, who committed perhaps the worst crimes against humanity in the name of civilization, can be judged as no more callous than Aztecs who disembodied their peasants. And as far as being white and European, my people, the Greeks, are innocent of enslaving anyone during colonial times, being subjugates of the (non-Anglo) Ottoman Empire. If it's one thing I've learned in history: it's complicated. But despite historians who discredit the romantic view of medieval times (and I refer here to knights-in-shining-armor) there is no denying that Romanticism was, in and of itself, a thing produced in these times. Whether knights actually stayed true to chivalrous ways is besides the point (probably not, if looking at Amin Malouf's The Crusades Through Arab Eyes). I prefer to judge societies not on the mob of the masses, however, but on that society's aspirations. In other words, at one point in time chivalry meant something, and it is a sad loss that we do not remember it. Nothing expresses this sentiment better than T.H. White's The Once and Future King.
I chose this book as my no. #1 for a moment of reading akin to religious revelation. Granted, I was impressionable in my youth, but The Once and Future King had me balling. It isn't sad things that open my tear ducts, however—it's something else entirely—something close to my heart, redemption. For me, redemption is the defining quality of Christianity, and while I no longer label myself a Christian, I still hold dear many of its values. On the surface, The Once and Future King is about King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, which is probably the most written about subject in the fantasy genre. In fact, Disney's Sword in the Stone is based on its first third (side note: Professor Xavier, in one scene of the X-Men movie, teaches The Once and Future King to his class). But T.H. White's masterpiece is more than just a retelling of the Arthurian legend; in its second third (in some publications, The Ill-Made Knight is part 2 of 4) the focus rests exclusively on Sir Lancelot Du Lac and the quest for the Holy Grail.
The Holy Grail, as many people know, is symbolic of Jesus Christ, and the knights who seek it serve, allegorically, as Christians fighting for salvation. To be a good knight is to be without sin. For the larger part of his life, Sir Lancelot avoids sin and is invincible. His moral failing comes from the forbidden love between himself and King Arthur's wife, Guinevere. Despite this love triangle, Lancelot's love is entirely platonic, yet he is still tormented by guilt and desire. This kind of conflict may be a foreign concept in our modern ME generation; it may be difficult for people of today to understand the angst by which a man struggles for his soul—and though I do not prescribe to many of the values that existed during medieval times—I am still saddened by the fact that most people care little about simply doing good. Goodness, it would seem, has been hijacked by the Religious Right. And while The Once and Future King may be to Christianity what Grapes of Wrath is to Socialism, it in no way diminishes the book or the strength of its narrative, and it never, ever, comes across as preachy. Without giving away spoilers, redemption ultimately saves Lancelot (just as Jesus sacrificed himself for sinners) and isn't that a value we can all, left and right, agree upon?
While it may not touch everybody in the same way, T.H. White's The Once and Future King had a powerful impact on my life. It's a book that, I can quite honestly say, made me a better person. And while chivalry may be dead and forgotten for most people, it's still alive in me, and in others. Just as the knights of old, some people still fight for truth regardless of consequences. These ideals came out of a "civilized" Christian Europe, passed down to us by the bearers of those ideals, by writers like T.H. White who taught kids of the 80's (like me) the meaning of chivalry.
Of course, none of this would matter if the writing wasn't superb, if the story wasn't engaging or the characters memorable. Strictly as an adventure story, or an epic fantasy, or as a retelling of Britain's very best myth, any way you read it, here is a masterpiece. But it's the subtext, the inspiring lessons behind the story, that bring tears to the eyes, and that makes The Once and Future King my #1 book of all time.


I really like having a website but I am very aware that once I write something , it will be out in cyber space for eternity. Which brings me to my point….
People need to think twice about what they write online, whether it's on their own site, a social network site or anywhere online. Expressing opinions is one thing but using the internet as a way to intentionally destroy a person's reputation, insinuate things about them that aren't substantiated by facts or just be a bully is, in my opinion, not acceptable.
On the bright side, the internet opens up the entire world, allowing opportunities to expand horizons, learn about any subject, make new friends and showcase talents. It is the most amazing technological advancement in my lifetime.
Yesterday, I came across this video about a girl who wanted to make the world a kinder place. She died before she could make that happen but the people who loved her brought her dream to life.
I am one of many people who (thanks to the internet) have discovered Rachel's Challenge and want to share it with the world.


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The Farthest Supernova Yet for Measuring Cosmic History
By: Paul Preuss
Supernova SCP-0401, nicknamed "Mingus," was collected by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2004 but could not be positively identified until after the installation of a new camera that serendipitously acquired more data. (Photo Space Telescope Science Institute)
What if you had a "Wayback Television Set" and could watch an entire month of ancient prehistory unfold before your eyes in real time? David Rubin of the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) presented just such a scenario to the American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting in Long Beach, CA, when he announced the discovery of a striking astronomical object: a Type Ia supernova with a redshift of 1.71 that dates back 10 billion years in time. Labeled SN SCP-0401, the supernova is exceptional for its detailed spectrum and precision color measurement, unprecedented in a supernova so distant.
"This is the most distant supernova anyone has ever found for doing dependable cosmology," says Rubin, a member of the international Supernova Cosmology Project (SCP) based at Berkeley Lab. "The most important unanswered question we have about the nature of dark energy is whether it varies over time – whether it affects the expansion of the universe differently in different eras. With SN SCP-0401, we have the first example of a well-measured supernova sufficiently far away to study the expansion history of the universe from almost 10 billion years ago."
The SCP is headed by astrophysicist Saul Perlmutter, a faculty senior scientist in Berkeley Lab's Physics Division and a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, who puts it this way: "Imagine you're channel surfing and you come across live news coverage of an exploding star – and then you see the dateline that says it's July 22nd, 9,947,989,219 BCE! By August 9 the supernova is at its brightest and starts to fade, but you get to watch the whole thing – even though, before the news could ever reach your TV, our solar system had to form, and then our planet, and intelligent life had to evolve on Earth."
Live-at-the-scene coverage has special advantages. While the light curves of most supernovae with redshifts above 1.5 are either incomplete or not cosmologically useful, because their colors can't be accurately measured, our imaginary Wayback TV broadcast, says Perlmutter, "has enough high-resolution information to allow us to confidently compare this ancient supernova with much more recent astronomical events."
Wayback TV is imaginary, but not SN SCP-0401's high-resolution details. The SCP's analysis of the new supernova will appear in the January 20, 2013 issue of the Astrophysical Journal.
Most supernovae begin as stars whose cores collapse, but a Type Ia supernova, in the simplest model, begins as a white dwarf star borrowing mass from a companion star; when it reaches critical mass, it erupts in a titanic thermonuclear explosion. While not identical, Type Ia's are more similar in brightness than any other type of supernova, and their variability can be accurately corrected for comparison.
This makes them excellent "standard candles" for measuring cosmic distances – the dimmer they appear, the farther away they are, and their distance can be confidently measured. At the same time, their redshift is a direct gauge of how much the universe has expanded since the supernova exploded.
Measuring the history of expansion ultimately depends on comparing distance and redshift for enough Type Ia's over a long expanse of time; this is how accelerating expansion, propelled by dark energy, was independently found by two competing teams and announced in 1998. For this discovery, in 2011 Saul Perlmutter divided the Nobel Prize in Physics with Brian Schmidt and Adam Riess of the competing High-z Supernova Search Team.
The new supernova Rubin announced at the AAS meeting was first spotted in a supernova survey conducted by the Supernova Cosmology Project using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) in 2004, part of a scheduling sequence in which the two teams shared alternate scans of the sky.
"We were looking for supernovae so far away that they really required the HST, not just to detect them but so we could separate them from their host galaxies, in hopes of getting clean spectra," says Rob Knop, now of Quest University Canada, who headed the SCP's search strategy in 2004 and wrote the software that identified likely candidates. Following an SCP tradition of nicknaming candidates after composers, Knop and colleague Rachel Gibbons, both then at Vanderbilt University, named the new contender "Mingus" after the jazz composer.
A needle in a haystack far, far away
Mingus was so distant it skirted the edge of invisibility, like trying to see a firefly all the way across the United States. And it was red – possibly its intrinsic color but more likely due to very high redshift; only with an accurate spectrum could the researchers tell for sure.
Initial spectra were captured by the Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), equipped with a grism (a combined diffraction grating and prism) that collects light from the target object and from nearby objects as well.
"The ACS grism data suggested the most likely match was a Type Ia supernova at redshift 1.7 – very distant and very old – but by itself the ACS could not establish the spectral features which could confirm this," says SCP member Andrew Fruchter, of the Space Telescope Science Institute.
The installation of Hubble's new Wide Field Camera 3 in 2009 would lead to the eventual confirmation of Supernova SCP-0401. (Photo NASA)
The problem was solved when a different grism-equipped camera, the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), was installed on the Hubble in 2009. When David Rubin saw the data he realized that the WFC3 had luckily caught some of the spectrum of Mingus's host galaxy.
Fruchter says, "The new WFC3 data pinned down the host's redshift at 1.713 – a match to the first estimate for Mingus." He adds that "each new instrument on HST has enabled new discoveries. It's exciting to see the Hubble continue to make breakthroughs even as we are building its successor."
To confirm that far-away Mingus really was a Type Ia, Rubin derived a spectrum model that allowed him to compare its spectrum with published spectra from other Type Ia's, as well as from core-collapse supernovae, as these objects would appear at redshift 1.713. The best-fit Type Ia spectrum was an almost perfect match with Mingus's spectrum. With Rubin's model indicating an over 90-percent chance of its identity – a conservative estimate, at that – Mingus was confirmed as a Type Ia and with confirmation got its more official-sounding designation, SCP-0401.
"To be able to directly compare different Type Ia supernovae, we have to fit their light curves – the time it takes the supernova to reach maximum brightness and the time it takes that brightness to fall off," says Rubin. "We also have to be able to compare the brightness of the different colors during this process, in order to calibrate the supernova."
Perlmutter remarks that such calibration "can be a lot like trying to match a particular shade of housepaint when you've got a thousand color chips to compare, maybe more." In this case, calibration meant finding exactly the right shade of red. Both the ACS camera and the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS), also carried aboard the Hubble, measured SCP-0401's apparent brightness in different colors over time.
The cosmological picture from SCP-0401, a single distant data point, begins to sharpen our measurements of dark energy's possible time variation. This is the first step toward the precision measurements that will require observations of many more Type Ia supernovae as far away as SCP-0401.
Says Rubin, "Hubble is our best bet to find and measure similar distant supernovae. Luckily Hubble has a few good years left."


How do we interact across difference in a way that promotes diversity, inclusion and equity in our congregations that builds deep relationship and an inviting congregational culture?
Intercultural Organizational Development Consultant Beth Zemsky shares how we can use a tool called the Intercultural Development Continuum as part of faith development in our congregations.
You can use these course materials as an individual or in a classroom format.
1. Introduction: What it Means to be "Intercultural"
a. What is Social Location?


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THIERRY NOYER
THIERRY NOYER (°1964, Marseille, France) creates mixed media artworks and installations. In a search for new methods to 'read the city', NOYER focuses on the idea of 'public space' and more specifically on spaces where anyone can do anything at any given moment: the non-private space, the non-privately owned space, space that is economically uninteresting.
His mixed media artworks are often about contact with architecture and basic living elements. Energy (heat, light, water), space and landscape are examined in less obvious ways and sometimes developed in absurd ways. With a subtle minimalistic approach, he creates work in which a fascination with the clarity of content and an uncompromising attitude towards conceptual and minimal art can be found. The work is aloof and systematic and a cool and neutral imagery is used.
His practice provides a useful set of allegorical tools for manoeuvring with a pseudo-minimalist approach in the world of mixed media art: these meticulously planned works resound and resonate with images culled from the fantastical realm of imagination. By exploring the concept of landscape in a nostalgic way, he investigates the dynamics of landscape, including the manipulation of its effects and the limits of spectacle based on our assumptions of what landscape means to us. Rather than presenting a factual reality, an illusion is fabricated to conjure the realms of our imagination.
His works establish a link between the landscape's reality and that imagined by its conceiver. These works focus on concrete questions that determine our existence. THIERRY NOYER currently lives and works in LONDON.


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On today's episode of Tourney Watch, we preview the first two Elite Eight games, caught up with UConn super-fan @ctladie64 , and had ESPN's @adamamin and @BrookeWeisbrod offer their insight!
When we earned our spot in our TENTH #EliteEight , our fans at @WintrustArena erupted and the Twitterverse celebrated.
YESTERDAY: Baylor is headed to the Elite Eight after defeating South Carolina 93-68.
That feeling when you're wakin' up and feeling ELITE.
ICYMI: Megan Gustafson and Iowa make history after a 79-61 win over NC State, moving the Hawkeyes onto the Elite Eight for the first time since 1993.
LAST NIGHT: Notre Dame wins the back and forth battle with Texas A&M 87-80. The Fighting Irish punch their ticket to the Elite Eight!
We're headed to our TENTH #EliteEight and feeling more than sweet.
My #NotreDameInsider : Arike Ogunbowale puts on a Sweet 16 show with career-high 34 points as #GoIrish outlast Texas A&M 87-80 in slugfest.
WATCH: #NotreDame guard Jackie Young after 87-80 win over Texas A&M in the Sweet 16.
@StanfordWBB hangs on to advance to the Elite Eight!
You made @WintrustArena feel like home. Let's do it again Monday night, #NDFamily .
It's a one possession game!
How many down, @JShepard32 ?
We're on to Monday's #EliteEight matchup with the winner of Stanford-Missouri State.
Hear from Alanna Smith as @StanfordWBB heads to the locker room for halftime.
McGraw said Young will be pretty sore tomorrow.
It was a hard screen that knocked the wind out of Young, McGraw said.
We're underway as the last teams attempt to secure their spot to the Elite Eight!
McGraw teases Arike about making the difference with a defensive stop.
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The acclaimed Boston playwright, Melinda Lopez, will be at the South End library to talk about her work on Tuesday October 30 at 6:30 PM. Lopez will be introduced by Isabel Alvarez Borland, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Humanities at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA, and author of Cuban-American Literature of Exile: From Person to Persona.
Lopez, also an accomplished actress, is recognized as one of the most exciting playwrights currently working in the U.S. In 2013, she was named the first Playwright-in-Residence at the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston, thanks to a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Before becoming a playwright, Lopez came to the theater as an actress. She launched her career by taking part in readings of new plays at the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis, MN, and moved on to roles in staged performances. She acted in numerous plays, including Romeo and Juliet at the Portland Stage Company in Portland, ME (1997); A Month in the Country (2002); The Rose Tattoo (2004) and Persephone (2007) at the Huntington. As an actress attuned to dialogue, Lopez wondered if she might do more than interpret the stories of others if she had her own compelling stories to tell?
Early forays into writing plays, primarily about her family, were encouraging. She was accepted into the MFA Playwrighting Program at Boston University where Nobel Prize-winning poet and author, Derek Walcott, was her mentor. Her play, Sonia Flew, debuted at the Huntington in 2004 and was awarded both the IRNE and Eliot Norton Awards for Best New Play in that year. Sonia Flew has since been produced by the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago, the San Jose (CA) Repertory Theatre and other theater companies. Lopez's other plays include Becoming Cuba (Huntington Theatre, 2014), Caroline in Jersey (Williamstown Theatre Festival in Williamstown, MA 2009) and Alexandros (Laguna Playhouse in Laguna Beach, CA 2008).
Her poignant and powerful one-character play Mala, the only one of her works in which she also appears, debuted at ArtsEmerson Boston in 2016 and won the 2016 Eliot Norton Award for Best New Play. Mala has also been performed at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis (2017) and at the Huntington (2018).
Lopez is currently working on an adaptation of Federico Garcia Lorca's 1934 classic Yerma, set to be staged at the Huntington Theatre in June 2019. She likes to feel that a play must have 'heart and compassion, must celebrate the human condition,' whether she is the author, a cast member or, as with Yerma, the translator and adaptor. She feels that theater is at its best when a play explores the existential questions of life and living.


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Ontario Ministry of Transportation responds to OSPE's calls to cancel Highway 413
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The following is a response OSPE received from the Assistant Deputy Minister of Transportation in response to OSPE's blog titled "OSPE calls on the Ontario Government to cancel its plan to build Highway 413", which was released on the OSPE website and through social media on April 27, 2021.
Dear Mr. Perruzza,
The Ontario Ministry of Transportation (MTO) has reviewed and is pleased to respond to the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers' blog titled "OSPE calls on the Ontario Government to cancel its plan to build Highway 413," which was released on the OSPE website and through social media on April 27, 2021.
A new GTA West highway and transit corridor presents a timely and positive opportunity for sustainable economic growth in Southern Ontario. The Greater Golden Horseshoe (GGH) is projected to attract 1 million new people every 5 years, reaching nearly 15 million by 2051. This upcoming population growth will overwhelm the GGH's existing infrastructure, which is critical to help move people and goods for the region. Stage 1 of the GTA West study identified that even with optimizing the existing transportation network, widening existing highways (including expansion of 407 ETR) and building all of the transit expansion projects identified by Metrolinx, additional road capacity is needed. Projections show that by 2031, more than 300,000 trips would be taken on the GTA West highway every day and someone travelling the full length of the route would save 30 minutes compared to the time it would take via Highways 401 and 400. This represents significant travel time savings for the people who live, work and travel through the western part of the GTA, which in turn increases the quality of life for Ontarians. The 30 second figure from a 2017 Advisory Panel Report was calculated by looking at the average time savings across the entire GGH and included every trip on every road in every region – including places that are nowhere near the proposed GTA West highway and transit corridor.
Any infrastructure project, including highways and transit, will result in impacts and opportunities to the natural, social, economic and cultural environments. MTO is fully committed to assessing the potential impacts of the GTA West highway and transit corridor and working with the appropriate advisory and regulatory agencies to avoid, minimize, mitigate and compensate for potential impacts. In fact, the Province is currently undertaking an Individual Environmental Assessment (EA) for the GTA West Highway and Transit Corridor, following the requirements of the approved Terms of Reference prepared in accordance with the Ontario Environmental Assessment Act. The results of this EA will be thoroughly reviewed to determine whether the project should proceed to subsequent stages of design, permitting and construction.
The GTA West project team is undertaking its work by collaborating closely with a fully integrated, multi-disciplinary group of professional engineers, planners, agrologists, geoscientists, ecologists, archaeologists, designers and other technical and environmental specialists. The project team is supported and advised by experts from within MTO and other Provincial ministries, regulatory agencies, municipalities and other advisory bodies. The Ministry's consultants, WSP and AECOM, are global firms with significant local presence and extensive experience planning for mobility improvements in this region. MTO and the GTA West project team continue to welcome feedback from interested stakeholders at any time during the study.
Over the coming weeks, the project team will be releasing new content on our project website at gta-west.com to provide additional information about the EA process, further clarify the findings of the study thus far, and outline additional opportunities for public engagement. We encourage OSPE to review this information and to reach out to the MTO project managers to continue this dialogue. MTO would also be pleased to collaborate with OSPE on further communications about the project, in order to draw greater attention to the expertise being provided by professional engineers to this important initiative.
MTO and the GTA West project team wish to thank OSPE for their continued interest in the GTA West highway and transit corridor. We share OSPE's commitment to engaging in professional and open dialogue as we continue to work toward smart, evidence-based and sustainable growth in the western GTA.
Jennifer Graham Harkness, P.Eng.
Assistant Deputy Minister / Chief Engineer
c: Michelle Pasqua, Director, Asset Management Branch, Transportation Infrastructure Management Division
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Home News Timberland opens new concept space on London's Carnaby Street
Timberland opens new concept space on London's Carnaby Street
Timberland has opened its first purpose-led flagship store in Europe, located at 5-7 Carnaby Street in London's West End.
With living trees, a full height living green wall, and natural elements throughout, the 2,594 sq. ft space immerses visitors in the brand's Creative Vision, which sits at the intersection of nature and fashion. The purpose-led space showcases a natural but urban materiality to bring nature into the city and encourage interaction and exploration. And powerful stories of eco-innovation showcase the brand's commitment to a greener future.
CSR pillars throughout the store stand tall to empower the sustainability message, educating consumers on the recycled materials and responsible technologies used in the production of Timberland merchandise. Further sustainable elements of the store include a combination of recycled materials obtained from industrial leftovers with Bio-resin for mannequins.
Product collections span footwear, apparel and accessories for men, women and kids. A Design Your Own (DYO) station is also offered, for consumers to engage in designing their own version of the most iconic Timberland styles.
Timberland recently launched its largest ever global campaign, Nature Needs Heroes, with a commitment to plant 50 million trees around the world by 2025 and a call to action for people everywhere to join the movement to be heroes for nature. Full-height digital screens in the store highlight the Nature Needs Heroes manifesto and real people making real change, while a central community table offers tangible and small actions that can make a big difference for our communities and planet. In London, the message focuses largely on urban greening.
"Carnaby Street is an iconic retail experience in London, and the perfect location for Timberland to reveal our new purpose-led retail store," says Argu Secilmis, vice president of global marketing for Timberland. "This is where nature and fashion come together to create something fresh and bold in the marketplace. We are excited to engage with our community, immerse them in our brand experience, and build a movement together toward a greener future."
The Carnaby Street flagship is one of three purpose-led stores opening around the globe this fall (others in Philadelphia, PA and New York, NY, USA), and will serve as the model for new store environments moving forward.
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A hailstorm is a sure-fire way to put a damper on a sunny day at any water park.
Not so at Lucky Paws Pet Resort, where humans are relegated to the sidelines while pups frolic in pools and fountains.
During its recent opening weekend, thunder and hailstorms descended upon the Beaver County doggie water park, much to the dismay of Susan Walker. But that didn't stop the four-legged patrons.
As one of just a few water parks nationwide catering solely to animals, Lucky Paws Pet Resort in New Sewickley has become part of the expanding pet pampering industry. From massages to water parks to themed "hotel" rooms, area pet resorts are offering Pittsburgh's pet population a way to unwind.
The American Pet Products Manufacturers Association estimates that Americans will spend $43.4 billion on their pets during 2008, a more than $20 billion increase from 10 years ago.
Even the Pittsburgh Pirates have jumped on board, offering, for the third year, six "Pups in the Park" events during the 2008 season. Fans are permitted to bring dogs to the Southwest Flight Deck located beneath the left-field scoreboard, where they can take part in a number of activities.
Carol Boerio-Croft agrees. She started the Stahlstown-based Cozy Inn Pet Resort 22 years ago. Clients at the resort can partake in anything from exercise to Swedish massages during their stays. Pet birthday parties are popular, she said.
The animal lover likens the Cozy Inn to a Nemacolin Woodlands for animals, with luxury spa care for all pets.
Walker said an increasing number of pet owners are turning toward the luxurious lifestyle for their animals. With pets in 71.1 million U.S. homes — up more than 20 million from a decade ago — pets are a vital part of American families.
Sue Krul, owner of Paws Here a While in Georgetown in Beaver County, said she sees a trend of younger couples doing a "trial run" with pets as their children, as well as parents who have grown children forming a closer bond with their animals.
For these resort owners, all the amenities included at their spas are designed to make pets comfortable and relaxed. A $48-an-hour massage at Cozy Inn fosters a stronger bond between caretaker and animal. The personal television in a room at Paws Here a While makes a dog or cat feel at home.
Lucky Paws' fountains and pools give pooches a chance to play. The focus is pampering the pooch enough to make him want to come back for a second visit.


Did I want to see Meg go to jury house? No. Did she deserve to win Big Brother 2015? No. I am not a fan of people dragging someone along to the F2 knowing they can easily beat them. Victoria was a waste of space last season and even though I like Meg and think she is a cute, fun girl, she was never a competitor this season and did need to go home eventually. Just not the same night as James!
Can't get it, was it a good chat?
Ok, Todd, I'll agree with you. I kept rooting for Meg to win SOMETHING, but no. Of course, she did come in second several times. Based on her lack of usefulness to her allies, I agree she didn't deserve to win. Or go to F2. But I don't think you can say she's as worthless as Victoria. If Meg had pulled out an HoH win, she would have made a move. She would have listened to her allies, yea, but she had a mind of her own. Poor Victoria was 100% Derrick's puppet. She was sweet but one of the most useless BB hgs ever. Can't believe Derrick successfully drug her to F3.
I agree about Victoria, but I think the same thing would have happened if Meg made it to F3. It would have been someone in the F3 that they can easily beat. That's what I was trying to say when mentioning Victoria. Meg was more involved and very social, but still wouldn't have had a resume to show in a F3, so beatable.
I truly understand what you're saying (got issues as well), but just applying to be on BB you have to know there will be physical challenges and your lack of abilities will hurt your game.
Sorry, have to disagree. Basically the only thing Victoria knew was what Derrick told her, including strategy. In some of the convos between the Goblins (just before Jackie left), Meg was fairly astute. She listed the order she'd like to evict people, and it was spot on. Split up the AssTwits, right after Vanessa left. Have to admit, though, that JaMeg was better with Jackie.
Her interview was pretty good too. She seemed to have a little better understanding for what had happened to result into her eviction. However she said she wouldn't have done anything different so that tells me she didn't really learn from her mistakes.
Yea, these hgs are still as clueless during this interview as they were a few hours earlier when they were in the house. I'd be interested to see how ALL the hgs view things after they get out and watch what really happened (and, of course, how WE viewed things!).
Nice girl but not suitable for BB. Maybe she would have made a move if she had power. And maybe not. Her powers of persuasion were nil. And her comp wins the same. What really ticks me off though is she came into the house with one strike against her already (her knees). Yet the twins get a boost just by virtue of both being there. Not fair in my book. I like a level playing field.
"nice guys finish last". I really liked her but as you said, not for BB. I hate that twin twist and the twits.
I see that EVERY year on TAR as well, contestants afraid of heights, can't swim etc., etc. They ALWAYS have challenges with that and I always wonder why even apply?
My own physical limitations are a huge reason why I never even considered applying. It would just be a waste of time for me and space for a real competitor.
Don't get me wrong though, I still love Meg and I think she was brave to try.
Yea, but on TAR, you always have the possibility that your partner might be able to take a particular task. Plus, people on TAR are looking for adventure, something that will challenge them, make them face their fears, even. In BB, physical comps are only a part of comps, and comps are only a part of winning the game. So I see where Meg thought her social game could make up for her physical limitations. The mistake she and Jason (and James) made was not having a ROUNDED game plan. James relied too much on his comp skills, and Jason and Meg were relying on their social game. And floating for a while.
I guess I was thinking of me. I'm petrified of heights, but I would pray my husband could take on a serious height challenge. And if it was a required height challenge, I think I could tough it through SOME of them. But it would definitely handicap my team. Of course, I would not apply for TAR right now. I'm overweight and out of shape. Since you have to run a lot, I would say a serious disability like Meg's (or overweight like me) would slow your team down often.
My mother suffers from fibromyalgia. What a confusing and frustrating disease!!
I am so very sorry Kesha for what you are going through, my thoughts and best wishes are with you.
Awww, thank you so much. ❤ I'm truly sorry for your chronic pain issues you mentioned earlier too, and I will keep you in my prayers.
(Sorry, Kesha. Had a wedding to go to.) You sound like my mom the last few years. Of course, she really got blindsided with a Parkinson's diagnosis last year. She's one tough cookie. Gosh, if those two are hereditary, I'm in BIG trouble, cuz I'm about half the woman she is!!
Wow, that's some rough stuff. They tell me that Parkinson's often partners w/ fibro. My father-in-law was diagnosed with it about a year ago as well. The best medicine they say is moving.
I'm not sure about heredity in Parkinson's but I do know I inherited my fibro from my mom, who got her's from her mom, and we suspect that my great grandmother had it too. I hope it skips you. ❤ it skipped my sister. So it's not dominant.
Well, I certainly wish you the best. Good for you and your never-quit attitude!!
Thanks Kesha. One good thing is I'm able to walk again, I was told I probably never would and I'm able to live on my own again, I was in a Long Term Care facility. Life is good.
Well that is awesome! It's absolutely amazing what one can do, when we put our whole self into it and don't give up! I too have been making myself push as hard as I can to feel better. Last year at this time I was almost 40lbs heavier and most days were spent in bed. Over the last 9 months I've pushed myself to walk everyday no matter if I thought I could or not. I started with 5 minutes a day on my treadmill and added a minute each day, or every other day. I've come a long way and have many more good days than I remember having since my early twenties. Everyday is a struggle and I still need to lose about 40 more pounds, but I've learned to manage the pain much better and I'm growing stronger by the day! I'm fighting back now instead of just letting the pain take over.
I understand your struggle with weight as well, my whole life has been like a yo-yo.
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Error Code P0495: Fan Speed High
How to Check
How to Fix
Error Code P0495 is referred as Fan Speed High. It means the PCM has detected an incorrect voltage (too high or too low) in the electric cooling fan control circuit.
Crankshaft sensor signals the ignition control or the fuel injection computer when the cylinders are firing. This will cause the ignition coil to provide the spark, and the injector to inject fuel into each cylinder at the perfect time. If either of these components is working properly, the vehicle will start to run tough due to the engine being less efficient. For later vehicle models, the PCM (powertrain control module, also known as ECM or engine control module in other vehicle makes) can usually allow the vehicle to run, with the Check Engine light on the dashboard.
Variations on voltage that goes more than 10% of the specified voltage range by the manufacturer will cause a code to be stored and illuminate the Check Engine light. Some vehicles may even require multiple drive cycles (around three) for the Service Engine Soon (Check Engine) lamp to light up. If there's no Check Engine light but the code is still stored, that would mean the code may be displayed as a pending code.
Symptoms for Error Code P0495 are usually limited to the Check Engine light and the stored codes. For some cases however, it may also include overheating of the engine when the vehicle is at stop, as well as reduced efficiency of the air conditioner.
The most common cause for this error code is bad cooling fan motor or faulty cooling fan relay. In rare cases, it can possibly be caused by loose or corroded electrical connectors, faulty engine coolant temperature sensor or open or shorted electrical wiring which is often results in a blown fuse.
As with other trouble codes, diagnosis for P0495 require a scanner (code reader) and a DVOM (digital volt-ohmmeter). Mechanics conduct a visual inspection of all the connectors and wirings involved in the component, along with the hoses and vacuum lines.
If all system wirings, connectors and components (especially fuses) appear to be in normal working condition, technicians connect the scanner to the diagnostic connector to record the stored codes and freeze frame data.
This information is important to determine the conditions that cause the intermittent issues that may contribute to the code being stored. They will then clear the codes and take the vehicle for a test drive to see if they return. If the code don't return, then the condition is intermittent, which can be quite a challenge to diagnose, and in extreme cases, the problem may be allowed to worsen before one can make the right diagnosis.
The scanner will be used to activate the engine cooling fan and to carefully perform quick test for both voltage and ground (battery voltage is normal) at the cooling fan motor. Technicians may successfully determine whether the fan motor is at faulty, or if it's a case of lack of voltage or ground. If there are no voltage present from the primary cooling fan, technicians will then start testing the system fuses.
If the fuses are in good condition, technicians will then look for the engine cooling fan relay and compare the voltage readings at the connector from the specifications provided by the manufacturer for the operation of the fan. Shorted circuits and damaged fuses and relays must be repaired, if not replaced.
If there is no output signal present from the PCM, then the technician will connect a scanner to observe the engine temperature. If the reading is within the specifications of the manufacturer, that could mean a faulty engine coolant temperature sensor.
The sensors are tested by comparing actual temperature to resistance values with the manufacturer's specified temperature to resistance values. If the temperature fails to coincide, then that means the engine coolant temperature sensor must be replaced.
To check for open or shorted wiring on the electrical connectors in the cooling fan circuit, engine coolant temperature sensor is disconnected and checked whether it yields to no change in the temperature reading from the scanner.
Before checking for resistance, technicians disconnect the PCM connector and compare the findings from the specifications provided by the manufacturer.
In rare cases, the problem can be caused by a faulty PCM.
For fan noise issue, test the fan clutch by bringing the vehicle to its operating temperature. Then, disconnect the cooling fan relay at the under-hood junction block. Or you can disconnect the connector of the cooling fan harness. Next, run the engine in park at 2,000RPM for 2 minutes. If the cooling fan roars, that means you have a bad electric fan clutch (a very common issue) and must be replaced.
Other issues such as faulty, corroded or loose wires, hoses and connectors must be repaired, if not replaced, as necessary.
It is crucial to perform a thorough and correct diagnosis of this error code before replacing any components, such as the cooling fan motors.
Replacing the fan clutch may be expensive, but it is necessary, as it can cause tearing from the bearing of the water pump, which will be flowed by belt and plastic shroud housing.


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On-demand Home Services App like TaskRabbit, Handy, Zaarly, Porch have earned humongous respect among customers in America. It is learned that due to apps like Uber, Amazon people have started believing in the on-demand platform more than the traditional methods. Realizing the potential, Amazon has aggressively entered this vast pool of home services and is trying to evolve its offerings for better customer experience.
The Home Services sector has the highest potential in the on-demand industry because of the wide offerings in the vertical. On-Demand Home Service has solutions for all cleaning, plumbing, electrical, installation, painting, and appliance maintenance needs. Realizing this huge potential, TaskRabbit in October 2018, launched its services in Canada, has raised a total of $37.7M in funding over 7 rounds and expanding services.
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instance—then, many other women of zombie films need to be considered as well. For
instance, even though she is told "Good girls don't hang out with dead boys," Missy
McCloud in My Boyfriend's Back (1993) chooses a zombie boyfriend, Johnny.121 Part of
this is (implicitly) framed as a nod to interracial dating: Johnny is told at one point by
townsfolk, "We don't like your kind," and later, upon seeing Johnny and Missy together,
one person remarks in horror, "By god! If it ain't a zombie out with a living woman!"122
Yet, beyond the power to choose who she dates, Missy stands up for Johnny's right to
live, so to speak. When an armed posse tries to kill Johnny at the end of the film, Missy
faces them, unarmed, and helps shame them into letting Johnny go.
Similarly, Lt. Ballard in Ghosts of Mars helps a black male convict elude the law
because he has helped her fight a zombie uprising. The policewomen of Zombie Nation
(2004) choose to use their status as zombies to help women victimized by men on both
sides of the law, and the strippers of Zombie Strippers (2008) choose to become zombies
because it is economically beneficial. However, the Cycle Sluts of Chopper Chicks in
Zombietown (1989) may best encapsulate both characterizations of feminine power.
The Cycle Sluts, a leather-clad all-female biker gang, begin the film already
outside of heteronormative patriarchy. They are women who curse and fight and who are
vocal in their desires for sexual partners of the moment: for many of them sex, and not
121 My Boyfriend's Back, DVD, directed by Bob Balaban (USA: Touchstone Pictures, 1993; Walt Disney
Video, 2002).
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Europa's Mysterious Glow
Strange things could happen when radiation meets the icy surface of one of Jupiter's moons.
NASA / JPL / University of Arizona / The Atlantic
Updated at 6:53 p.m. on November 10, 2020.
One of Jupiter's moons might be glowing in the dark.
At first glance, this is perhaps unsurprising. Our own moon glows in the dark, reflecting the light of the sun. Jupiter is far away from here, but our star still illuminates the planet and its many moons, including the moon Europa.
But Europa is different from the others. According to new research, Europa might glow even on its night side, producing an ethereal glimmer without the help of the sun.
The glow arises from the special nature of Europa's cosmic home. Jupiter's magnetic field is the largest of any other planet in the solar system, and the radiation within its boundaries is many millions of times more intense than the radiation near Earth. The high-energy particles constantly bombard Europa, a world slightly smaller than our moon, with a wispy atmosphere. And when those particles strike the moon's ice-covered surface, a quirk of chemistry could make it glow in the dark.
Could, because scientists haven't observed this mysterious light show on Europa itself, but only here on Earth, in a lab chamber that simulates the environment around the distant moon. Murthy Gudipati, a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and his team created miniature versions of Europa's icy surface, based on astronomy's current understanding of its composition, and then bombarded them with electron beams. At the touch of radiation, the simulated surface shone.
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Scientists will get a chance to look for the real thing in this decade. NASA is currently developing a robotic mission to Europa, named Clipper, set to launch in the mid-2020s. Clipper is designed to orbit Jupiter, but it will also carry out dozens of close passes of the icy moon, shifting its path each time so it covers new, frozen ground.
Europa is one of the most intriguing moons in the solar system. The surface is so cold that the ice is as hard as concrete. Observations by spacecraft and ground telescopes alike show that the terrain is sprinkled with chemical compounds such as sodium chloride and magnesium sulfate. On Earth, we know these as table salt and Epsom salt. Cynthia Phillips, a planetary geologist at the JPL who works on the Clipper mission and was not involved in this research, describes it in these extremely relatable terms: "It's frozen water, a little bit salty, might be good in a margarita."
The salts strewn across Europa's surface are a necessary ingredient for the strange glow. Radiation from Jupiter has an analogous effect on these compounds as a big cup of coffee might have on a person. "If you're hyper-caffeinated, you get very excited," Gudipati told me. "Same thing happens with molecules and atoms." But molecules and atoms can't remain in this excited state for long, and they return to normal by giving off energy in the form of photons—visible light. When Gudipati and his colleagues simulated a Europa bathed in radiation, they produced a glow that ranged from green to bluish to neon white, depending on which salts they'd mixed in with the ice.
Read: Saturn's largest moon would make an unbelievable vacation spot
Outside the lab, the effect doesn't occur naturally on our moon, or on Earth. The closest glow on our planet comes from the northern lights, which occur when particles drifting away from the sun meet the particles trapped within our planet's magnetic field, sending them into a frenzy.
Gudipati suspects that this glowing effect occurs all across Europa, but is likely too dim to spot in the sun's glare on the moon's dayside. But on the nightside, the moon casts its dreamy glow out into the dark of space.
The glow is more than a pretty light show; it could help scientists learn more about what lies beneath Europa's icy crust. Since the Voyager missions first flew past Europa in the 1970s, scientists have believed that the moon has a salty ocean, kept warm by interior heat, stoked by Jupiter. As Europa swings around the planet on its elongated orbit, Jupiter's gravity stretches and crunches the entire moon, creating heat that keeps the ocean liquid. Today, scientists suspect that Europa's briny ocean could support microbial life-forms.
Read: A city-size moon was hiding around Neptune
The detection of an ethereal glow on Europa could help identify the salts producing it, which in turn could tell scientists something about the watery world below. The leading theory posits that, over many millions of years, materials from Europa's watery depths have risen to the surface, and vice versa. "The presence of salts on and within the surface ice of Europa could be a direct indication of ocean water coming up from below, delivering those salts and perhaps other materials, to the surface," explains Kevin Hand, a planetary scientist at the JPL who was not involved in the new research.
Life on the surface of Europa can't survive; the same radiation that produces the glowing effect would fry it out of existence. "We're probably not going to find fish flopping around on the surface of Europa, but we might find some interesting chemistry that would help us understand what kind of chemical pathways could be available for life down in the ocean," Phillips says.
Hand has searched for signs of fluorescence on Europa using Hubble, the world's top space telescope, but didn't find anything. NASA scientists are now hoping that the glowing effect, if it indeed exists, is bright enough for the Clipper to capture it. The camera has yet to be built and tested, so scientists don't know whether it will be sensitive enough to catch the gleam. But "it's always exciting to discover something in the lab, and then have the opportunity to see if it translates into the real world," Curt Niebur, a program scientist for the mission, told me. "And we don't get that opportunity a lot in planetary science."


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Amazon's Echo Show: The Future Is Here
By Jeff Kagan
Amazon recently launched its Echo Show, which brings a visual screen to its smart speaker device. The screen changes the Echo experience quite a bit, and I wonder whether we're ready to start living in what seems like a futuristic Star Trek world.
The Echo Show experience is sort of like having a laptop sitting on your table — one that uses artificial intelligence, allows you to speak to it, speaks back to you, and shows you relevant things on its screen. It searches the Web for the answers you're seeking.
Like Star Trek's Computer
Think of Star Trek — the Enterprise crew could speak to the computer and it would speak back to them and display things on a screen. Similarly, Amazon's AI assistant, Alexa, can respond orally to your spoken questions, and the Echo Show can display more information in response to your needs. It's very impressive.
This is the way we will use computing devices going forward. However, whenever a transformative device reaches the market, there's resistance. People are not always ready to embrace technology as quickly as it evolves.
One slice of the consumer pie consists of people who are ready to buy now — those who like to play with new technologies and devices. They typically are early adopters who like to be on the cutting edge. Then, as time passes and more is written about a product and the mainstream becomes more comfortable with it, the next wave of consumers will jump in — then the next, and so on.
Adoption will take years to fully unfold, and in the meantime, competitors will jump into the space. Google and Apple already have introduced audio-only Echo competitors. Facebook, IBM, Microsoft and many others quickly will enter this space as well. AI will get lots of media attention and continue to develop and be more useful.
In the coming years, more people will start to feel comfortable with this new technology. We will develop rules to live by with regard to technologies like this. Until then, there will be plenty of resistance — and likely, plenty of embarrassing mistakes. Stories will be written about the way people screw things up and that will make us all laugh and even shy away, at least for a while.
The Echo Show's 'Drop In' Feature
Imagine getting a phone call on your new Amazon Echo Show. You answer the call as usual — but now you are seen, not just heard. If you activate the Drop In feature, someone you have pre-approved can appear with just a few seconds warning.
For the first 10 seconds, you'll show up as a blurry vision. During that brief window, you can decide to continue with the call or hang up. If you continue, the picture clears up. However, this safety feature may not be enough for many users. Many will be caught off-guard.
Some may feel that having an Echo Show means always having to be presentable — not going near the unit unless they're nicely dressed with hair combed. For them, using the Drop In feature on Show may feel like being in one continuous on-again, off-again video conference.
Others might be less concerned about their appearance on a video call — but you might rather not see your grandmother in her bathrobe with hair in curlers.
Aside from Drop In privacy gaffes, some users be tempted to walk on the wild side — intrigued by the possibility of planned intimate encounters. Imagine Echo Show connecting you with your lover in another location. Just imagine what you could do. Then again, would you really feel free to explore the possibilities, knowing that everything is transmitted over the Internet and stored on Amazon servers? That means your "private" videos someday could become public. Still interested?
Echo Show's Cybersecurity
What about cybersecurity? In other countries, bank and hospital computer systems recently have been impacted by cyberhacks with the potential of impacting every citizen. Imagine if the bad guys were to target power, water, transportation, or communications systems — or anything else?
Hypothetically, they also could break into Amazon's servers and take your records. That would suggest that the Echo Show's security must be top of mind — but is it? Is our security protected when using Amazon's Echo Show?
For me, the bottom line is that I love AI. I love the idea of Amazon's Echo Show and I'd love to see more products competing with it. I love what this technology is evolving into and where it will take us.
However, all the things that can and will go wrong are worrisome — from simple things like accidentally being seen naked on a video call to more complicated things, like bad guys jumping in and stealing information and data.
Are we ready for Amazon Echo Show? Well no — but that's never stopped us before. My advice is to enjoy it — just be careful. It still has plenty of sharp edges, and you could get cut. Still, that's what being an early adopter means, right? Now if only I could get my hands on a real phaser.
Jeff Kagan has been an ECT News Network columnist since 2010. His focus is on the wireless and telecom industries. He is an independent analyst, consultant and speaker. Email Jeff.
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The legal profession was and remains in demand at all times. But not every person who dreams of becoming a lawyer will be able to become popular and well-paid specialist.
How to start working as a lawyer
What to do to be a lawyer
What is the job of a lawyer
Nowadays there are a large number of higher educational institutions that produce experts in law. Some of them are specialized – for example, the legal Academy, but for the most part, the law faculties and departments of various humanitarian institutions. Educational institutions offer full-time and extramural form of education, and departments of accelerated training, which has recently entered the education system – they usually accept applicants who have graduated from specialized colleges and technical schools.
How to become a lawyer?
To get a quality education - that's a fundamental factor in the career of a lawyer, but getting a diploma from a prestigious University does not always give the opportunity to become a good lawyer. In order to succeed, you need to be always aware of developments in the field of jurisprudence. You need to:
As early as possible to decide on specialization, you want to do, and explore all of the industry with which it will RUB thematically.
To learn how to filter information, namely, to understand what is really important today, to follow the news in the legislation, be aware of the entry into force and cancellation of normative legal acts.
To be precise, as in mathematics. Be able to confidently refer to specific facts and citations of law. But remember, this doesn't must mean that you need to memorize by heart all the wording of the laws and the articles of the code. You just need to learn to think systematically and to know where to find the answer to the question.
Start practicing and to learn a profession best still in the process of learning: even if you are not yet normally will be able to show themselves and to demonstrate their abilities, but you will get invaluable experience, get his feet wet in the environment in which you will experience after graduation. And most importantly - you will already have some work experience, which will play a big role in employment in the specialty after graduation.
Try to frequently communicate with experienced lawyers, revolve in a circle, listen to stories from their practice, analyze, learn from their invaluable experience. This will help you quickly integrate into the sphere of jurisprudence. All kinds of forums on the Internet, relevant blogs will also help you.
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