The UFC's first event in Santiago, Chile this weekend offers an exciting fight card filled with emerging talent and capped by a crucial matchup in the welterweight division pitting Demian Maia against Kamaru Usman.
With 13 fights packed with explosive potential, the fans that pack the Movistar Arena on Saturday, May 19 should be treated to a terrific night of action inside the Octagon and, as an added bonus, they'll get a chance to familiarize themselves with a crop of up-and-coming competitors.
Here's a closer look at three of those athletes.
This is On the Rise: Santiago Edition.
You best believe that the roof of the Movistar Arena is going to come off when Rivas makes the walk to the cage for his bout with Guido Cannetti.
A native of Cholchol, Chile, the 26-year-old bantamweight is the lone native son competing on Saturday's fight card, and while there will likely be plenty of vocal support in the building for the various other South American fighters on the card, the volume should be at its apex when Rivas' music hits.
A contestant on Season 1 of The Ultimate Fighter Latin America, Rivas collected consecutive victories following his time on the show before being diagnosed with testicular cancer. He returned to action last August in Mexico City, dropping a decision to Jose Alberto Quinonez, but the simple fact that he was back in the cage was the important takeaway from that particular contest.
Now he's back with a second full camp under his belt and eager to rebound from his first professional loss in a showdown with Cannetti, another member of that Season 1 cast. With his medical issues under control and the rust of time away already shaken off, Saturday's contest should be a better representation of what the 135-pound prospect brings to the table.
While she doesn't carry the hype or upside of contemporaries like Mackenzie Dern or Aspen Ladd, Lee has built a strong following and solid record plying her trade with Invicta FC and Legacy Fighting Alliance over the last three years.
The 29-year-old holds victories over TUF 26 contestants Ariel Beck and Rachael Ostovich and arrives in the Octagon riding a four-fight winning streak. Tall and rangy, Lee augments her Muay Thai striking base with a solid top game on the ground, boasting more wins by submission (four) than stoppages due to strikes (two).
Lee debuts this weekend in an intriguing pairing with Veronica Macedo, who made her Octagon debut in August 2016 fighting at bantamweight with a loss to Ashlee Evans-Smith. If "KGB" can stride into the UFC cage and extend her winning streak to five with an impressive victory right out of the gate, the Texan would put herself in a good position to get a significant push as things in the women's flyweight division start to pick up.
Peru's Bandenay made a splash in his promotional debut, collecting a 26-second knockout victory over Martin Bravo on two-weeks' notice last summer in Mexico City, and now he gets a chance to make an immediate move up the divisional ladder with this clash against Gabriel Benitez, who enters off a solid decision win over Jason Knight.
Just 23 years old, Bandenay has won six straight, all by stoppage, heading into this one and he profiles as the kind of promising young talent who could grow by leaps and bounds between contests, as he has tremendous size for the division and obvious explosive offense.
Benitez has logged six Octagon appearances and is coming off his best showing to date – a one-sided decision win over Knight back in December that has left him on the fringes of contention in the featherweight ranks - and if Bandenay can roll in and steal his thunder this Saturday, the young upstart could add his name to the growing list of emerging talents bubbling up in the 145-pound weight class.


I had a root canal appointment last week. I am not the best dental patient and my anxiety level regarding this procedure was dangerously high. My appointment was scheduled for mid-day, which meant I was driving to the dentist from my office. I lost track of time and realized I was going to be 20 minutes late for a two-hour appointment. My anxiety level was now through the roof (the sunroof in my car comes in handy sometimes!). I called the office and apologized profusely; they said just to get there as soon as I could, which I did. Entering the office, I greeted the receptionist with my apologies and she took me immediately back to the procedure room. There, my very calm dentist and his lovely assistant were waiting for me. They bibbed me up, put the chair back and had the tray of instruments ready to go. Before they filled my mouth with cotton and the rubber block, I expressed my regret for my tardiness, again. My dentist, who is very nice but speaks in a monotone replied, "Don't worry. We'll get even."
He then took the very large syringe and plunged it into my gum. In my head, all I heard was, "WE'LL GET EVEN." As if they were planning something to pay me back for being late. My mind raced—would they use less anesthetic? Or go little longer than needed with the drill? Or maybe use a dull needle?"
Who says that? My mouth was full and I could not ask what they meant, so I just suffered in silence and let my imagination run wild. Forty-five minutes later he said they would give me a chance to rest and would be back in a few minutes to finish up. As soon as they took the cotton out of my mouth, I reiterated how badly I felt about being late. He calmly responded, "Like I said, don't worry. We'll get even." Again with the getting even business. They left the room. My mouth was numb and nothing out of the ordinary had happened—yet.
A few minutes later, the team returned and quickly went to town with the drills and the impressions in my mouth. Another 45 minutes went by and he announced that the work was complete—"It's a beautiful root canal," he said—and that it was now 2:00pm. And, as he said, they got even.
He meant they got a late start but were now on track with the timing on the schedule. They got "even."
I am sure everyone in this dental office uses this shorthand or jargon regarding patient appointments and procedures. Some things take longer than others, some go more quickly. They know how to make it work out and they know how to get even with the schedule. Unfortunately, no one told me, their anxious patient, that the phrase meant something different in their world.
When you are chatting with or around patients—before, during or after their rehab—think about the words you use among your colleagues and how those words could have an entirely different meaning to an anxious patient, particularly one new to the world of cardiac rehab and its jargon. As professionals who work so diligently to support and inspire patients, it's important to remember that one word, one phrase, one tone of voice can make all the difference in filling them with confidence...or intensifying their fears. Make sure your years of experience don't numb you to the INexperience of those stepping on a treadmill for the first time.


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does anyone know what does skepticism do in science?
I could not have put it better myself devilmech, Often skepticism is equated with closed-mindedness and bigotry etc...but I do not believe that this is the case, on the contrary, it seems to me that it is open mindedness, just as long as the door is not completely slammed on a theory without any tests or research being conducted.
At low temperatures, particles tend to move to their lowest energy states. As you increase the temperature, particles move into higher and higher energy states. As the temperature becomes infinite, the number of particles in the lower energy states and the higher energy states becomes equal. In some situations, it is possible to create a system in which there are more particles in the higher energy states than in the lower ones. This situation can be described with a negative temperature. A negative temperature is not colder than absolute zero, but rather it is hotter than infinite temperature.
The thermal condition has baselined, and all molecular motion has stopped.
Negative temperature is skepticism in Quantum Physics, and conjecture, no matter what kind of condensates they come up with.
but rather it is hotter than infinite temperature.
Can this be ought but semantic confuscation.
And Duane, "promote" is not quite right, "question" would be closer. Where else than on the net in a forum like this, is it possible to ask questions on the Electric model or any other new theory? Otherwise I would have to wait for science to sort things out, and only long after the paradigm shift would I hear about this fine new theory that would explain everything much better. I'd rather be knee-deep in arguments about it right now. Btw do you know of any new theories threatening the current models?
do you know of any new theories threatening the current models?
You don't even have to look outside the current models! Quantum theory (which posits the "graviton" particle to explain gravity) threatens relativity theory (which describes gravity as a geometrical warping of "spacetime")... I've got no idea how string theories are meant to bridge this gap!?
Thanks VanderL, I agree, question would be closer.
There are many theories that bring into question our current understandings. Just off the top of my head, and in no particular order, string theory, dark energy, dark matter, quantum mechanics, planet formation, evolution, all have competing theories. I believe that is why scepticism is so vitally important in science.
If everyone believed what they were told, and didn't question anything we would still be living in caves.
True, but my understanding is that dark matter is not really a competing theory, it is a (strained imo) solution to the missing mass problem. Maybe we should make a list and try to find out what observations or experiments would be needed to answer some of the big questions?
Skepticism is a necessary balance to conjecture.
Edward De Bono wrote a great series of books on what he called Top Hat Thinking. His idea was that we should not just put on our 'thinking caps" but we must realize the varieties in which thinking caps come. One is the brain-storm kind of thinking cap where we might think of all sorts of outlandish things off the top of our heads. The next hat uncritically tries to make all these ideas work. The last hat is a sort of skeptical hat that picks everything apart. The middle uncritical step might seem redundant, but in practice you are likely to generate completely new ideas that are inspired by the crazy ones that a premature critical analysis might throw out.
My point is this, skepticism and analysis are important to the scientific process, but they are the last step. As Einstein said, Imagination really is more important than knowlege, to this I would add that imagination is at least as important as skepticism. You won't get anywhere without both.
While I'm on the subject, logic limits us to what we already know. If you are lost in a large wooded area bounded on all sides by highways, logic says if you just keep walking straight in any direction whatsoever, you'll soon be out of the woods. What will really happen is you are going to walk in circles because one of your legs is a little stronger than the other one. Its the same way with problem solving. Our strengths, that is all the things we think we know doom us to engage in circular thinking. We need something to disrupt our circular thinking.


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Steve Mason is glad about increased workload
With Michal Neuvirth sidelined for at least a month, most of the Flyers' upcoming starts are expected to go to Steve Mason.
by By Sam Carchidi, STAFF WRITER
The 28-year-old goaltender relishes the workload.
"You never want to see anyone go down with an injury, but it's part of sports, it happens," Mason said Tuesday before a 3-2 shootout loss to the Ottawa Senators. "It creates opportunities for other people."
In the first 16 games, Mason made eight starts. His workload is about to increase.
"It simplifies things," he said of the goalie rotation without Neuvirth. "As much as you try not to think about outside factors when Neuvy's around, you do. Unfortunately. You want to play every single game. . . . So things are now clarified a little bit, but at the end of the day, you have to play well still."
With Neuvirth sidelined by a knee injury late last season, Mason was at his best as he played 12 straight games, compiling a .926 save percentage in that stretch and sparking the Flyers to a playoff berth.
"When you play a lot of hockey, games just flow into one another," Mason said.
Mason took a 3-5-2 record, a 3.41 goals-against average, and an .880 save percentage into Tuesday, but he played well Saturday in a two-period relief stint, a 3-2 win over Minnesota.
Promising rookie Anthony Stolarz is Mason's backup.
Coach Dave Hakstol said that Mason's workload will "certainly be heavier," but added that Stolarz is "not going to be here just sitting in the background."
Simmonds' role
Wayne Simmonds has been used on the penalty kill this season because he has "all the elements" needed to do the job, Hakstol said.
"He's an explosive skater, he's got a good stick, he's a tenacious guy that's willing to block shots," Hakstol said.
By Sam Carchidi, STAFF WRITER

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Aside from its exquisite poetry and music, this ballad is notable for its exhibition of the universal popular belief that excessive grief on the part of mourners disturbs the peace of the dead.
It is possible that this is only a fragment of a once popular longer ballad. In the form we have it today, no text has been reported earlier than the 19th century. The ballad is little known in Scotland and is quite rare in America. It is still current in England, however.
The text and tune sung by A.L. Lloyd were collected by Cecil Sharp from William Spearing of Ile Bruers, Somerset, excepting the last two stanzas, which were from Mrs. William Ree of Hambridge, Somerset.
See Child (78), Volume II, p. 78ff; Coffin, p.82; Dean-Smith, p.113.
From Cecil Sharp's English Folk Songs . This is one of the classic pieces of English folk song literature. From one point of view it is a feminine fantasy or a wish, perhaps for the death of a lover, perhaps for a way of arranging a night visit by the lover, perhaps for a way of showing how strong her love is, perhaps of a feeling of guilt. Certainly, it is a ghost story designed to delight the imagination of young women. Finally, it shows the survival of ancient and widely distributed primitive beliefs about the treatment of the dead.
The rowdy Irish wake is the only one example of the common folk custom of a gathering in which ceremonial banqueting and games were indulged in to show honour to the dead person. The shade was given a great send-off to the other world. Sometimes guns were fired to send him skittering away in fear. Sometimes a special door was cut in the side of the wall so that the coffin could be taken out by that route; and then this hole was walled up so that the ghost could not find his way back into the house again.
In Scotland and Ireland it was believed that excessive grief prevented the dead from resting; that the tears shed by the mourners pierced holes in the corpse. In Persia they held that the tears shed by humanity for their dead flowed into a river in which the souls floated and drowned. Similar beliefs were held by the Greeks and Romans, and from mediaeval times throughout Germany and Scandinavia.
This song is a tender and magical expression of an ancient community belief: a very proper belief that when the mourning of a lover's death started to drain life from the living, love was being misused. Tears flowed into the Styx, and the river swelled and became impassable, so the dead come back and warn the quick. On this track and elsewhere I play an instrument made for me by John Bailey, which is a dulcimer with a five-string banjo neck.
Derek Sarjeant sang The Unquiet Grave on his 1962 EP Folk Songs Sung By Derek Sarjeant and as Cold Blows the Wind on his 1970 album Derek Sarjeant Sings English Folk .
The Ian Campbell Folk Group with Dave Swarbrick sang The Unquiet Grave in 1963 on their album This Is the Ian Campbell Folk Group . This track was included in 2005 on their anthology The Times They Are A-Changin' .
Alex Campbell sang The Unquiet Grave in 1966 on his album Yours Aye, Alex ; this track was included in 1966 on his compilation CD Been on the Road So Long .
Sandy and Caroline Paton sang The Unquiet Grave in 1966 on their Folk-Legacy album Folksongs and Ballads .
There's widespread and ancient belief that excessive grieving over the dead disturbs their rest. The Greeks and Romans thought so, and the idea is as common in the Far East as in Western Europe. In Ireland as in Roumania it was thought that inordinate tears would burn a hole in the corpse, and in several ballads the dead complain that they cannot sleep because the tears of the living have wet their winding sheet. This ballad, of a restless ghost who confronts and reproaches the mourner, is probably a fragment broken off some longer, more complicated narrative. Though it's been relatively common in England till recent times, it seems very rare in America, and has turned up only in a scattered handful of versions from Newfoundland, Virginia and North Carolina (which is where the present version comes from, collected by the indefatigable Frank C. Brown).
Jon Raven sang The Unquiet Grave in 1968 on the Broadside album The Halliard : Jon Raven .
The ballad, usually called The Unquiet Grave, concerns a person who feels bound to sit and mourn by his (sometimes, her) lover's grave for a period of time. In nearly all versions, the corpse complains of being disturbed, illustrating the ancient belief that excessive grief interferes with the peace of the dead. In archaic folklore, a constant concern, when faced with a death, is to try to ensure that the corpse makes a pleasant and reassured transit from the land of the living to the world of the dead. Otherwise the dead may return, uneasy and vengeful, to plague the living. Hence for instance the jollification at Irish wakes, intended to cheer and embolden the dead. Singers have ended our ballad in various ways, sometimes heartbroken and disconsolate, sometimes more or less lightheartedly as: "But since I have lost my own true love, I must get another in time." Our tune is from Fred Hamer's collection Garners Gay . The words are from Alfred Williams's Folk-Songs of the Upper Thames .
A woman laments long over the grave of her sweetheart, till he speaks from the grave and reproaches her for disturbing his rest. Usually in the ballads the setting and the characters are named, but here we know neither the who nor the where, and the supernatural climate is further charged with mystery on that account. The tale is old, like the belief that too much grief disturbs the dead, though to this day, in Eastern Europe, some peasants believe that mourner's tears make an unhealing burn if they chance to light on a corpse. In some versions the dead person threatens to tear the living one to pieces (the favourite revenge of ghosts!) unless absolute fidelity can be sworn to. But Frankie's version is milder, more consolatory, as fits her gentle character. By and large, the tune she uses is one recorded by Vaughan Williams at Dilwyn, Herefordshire.
"If yo were troubled about the dead after they'd gone, yo'd give the dead no rest" : so George Dunn explained the song, which came from his father. The reference in verses 4 and 5 to fetching a 'note from a dungeon so deep'—rather than the more conventional 'nut' of other versions—is curious, since the broadside version issued by William Pratt of Birmingham between 1845 and 1861 has the same peculiarity. It also has 'rest' (verse 3), where the rhyme requires 'repose'. […] These are trifles.
George's singing is at its most majestic in this ballad known to Child as The Unquiet Grave. Surprisingly, no version antedates the nineteenth century, but it is just possible that a moralising carol of the late fifteenth century, beginning "There blows a cold wynd todaye, todaye", could have been based on Cold Blows the Wind—so says B H Bronson in The Singing Tradition of Child's Popular Ballads (Princeton, New Jersey, 1976), p.203..
Equally surprisingly, despite its popularity and Roud's 115 instances—mostly English—there appears to have only ever been one sound recording made of a traditional singer—George Dunn. What is more, George seems to be the only British source since Sharp's 1921 collections from Kathleen Williams and Thomas Taylor (in Gloucestershire and Herefordshire respectively).
Union Folk sang The Unquiet Grave on their 1971 Traditional Sound album Waiting for a Train .
When I moved to Shropshire in 1973 and started looking at the local folk music, the singing of May Bradley was a glorious revelation. I never saw her in the flesh, but Fred Hamer's recordings of her in Ludlow during the 1960s proved to be a real treasure chest of wonderful songs wonderfully sung. She was the daughter of Ester Smith, a gypsy singer that Vaughan Williams had collected from in Herefordshire at the beginning of the century, and had some of her mother's songs as well as plenty of others. This is her tune for what is sometimes known as The Unquiet Grave—Child Ballad no. 78. I've sung this before in a past life, but in revisiting the song I have added a few lines from other versions to fill out the sense of the words.
Two books of the songs Fred Hamer collected were published by EFDS Publications Ltd., and you can see this in the first one from 1967, Garners Gay . Or a much better option is to hear [May Bradley] singing it herself on the EFDSS LP Garners Gay issued in 1971, EFDSS LP 1006.
May Bradley's version can also be found on her Musical Traditions anthology Sweet Swansea (2010).
The Unquiet Grave is based on the belief that excessive mourning prevents the dead from resting; the song appears in Richards and Stubbs' The English Folksinger , though I first heard it from Gill McKay.
Jo Freya sang The Unquiet Grave in 1992 on her CD Traditional Songs of England .
Sandra Kerr sang The Unquiet Grave in 1970 on the Argo Voices anthology series, Second Book, Record One (Argo DA96). Her daughter Nancy sang it in 1993 on the CD Eliza Carthy & Nancy Kerr . She referred in her sleeve notes to Evelin Wells' The Ballad Tree , and to her mother singing this version on Voices .
Louis Killen learnt The Unquiet Grave from Brian Ballinger and sang in on his 1993 CD A Bonny Bunch .
The sources for [One True Love] are The Unquiet Grave, (spooky old English song), Lovely Joan, and a small fragment of Lowlands of Holland. The inspiration came largely from Borrowed Time by Paul Monette, a book you may be familiar with.
Kate Rusby couldn't let the dead sleep on her 1999 CD Sleepless . She returned to this ballad in 2012 on her anniversary album Twenty .
One of the classic ballads—Child N8 78 for those to whom it's important. This is a collated version of two tunes that crept up on Barbara when I was 'messing about' on the guitar. A warning about the power of love—and absolutely overflowing with folk-lore: plants, riddles, ghost ,revenant, excessive grieve, but above all it's the images the song creates that are so extraordinary.
Isambarde sang The Unquiet Grave in 2004 on their CD Brunel's Kingdom .
Lau sang Unquiet Grave on their 2007 CD Lightweights & Gentlemen .
Paul and Liz Davenport sang The Unquiet Grave in 2008 on their Hallamshire Traditions CD Songbooks .
Rob Williams sang The Unquiet Grave on his 2012 CD Outstanding Natural Beauty of songs collected in Spring 1905 from Jane Gulliford of Combe Florey, Quantock Hills, by the brothers Henry and Robert Hammond.
[…] The Unquiet Grave is a similar story of loss, but this time between a girl and her lover. We were struck with the beautiful melody collected by Cecil Sharp from Lucy White of Hambridge, Somerset, in August 1904, and have added some additional text from other sources. It's an old folkloristic belief that prolonged grief can disturb the dead and mourning for more than a year might bring back their ghost. Somehow this song manages to intertwine that idea with both the Christian belief that you are called away by God and the certainty that all things must decay and die.
Sam Kelly sang The Unquiet Grave in 2015 on his EP Spokes .
I took the words for the well known ballad The Unquiet Grave from Child no. 78a; and the melody I use is based on a version I learned from the singing of Shirley Collins.
Hannah Sanders and Ben Savage sang The Unquiet Grave in 2016 on their CD Before the Sun .
From the Gardiner collection, sung by James Brown of Basingstoke 1906 [VWML GG/1/17/1052] . This is an unusual 6/8 tune, with its refrain. I gleaned that from Sam Richards The English Folksinger .
John Smith sang Unquiet Grave in 2018 on his CD Hummingbird .
Cath and Phil Tyler sang Finest Flower on their 2018 CD The Ox ad the Ax . They got the words from Michael Walker and the tune from the Sacred Harp (Cooper edition), credited to David Walker.
Cold blow the drops of rain.
In the greenwood he was slain.
And in Greenwood she is lain.
For a twelve month and one day.
And in Greenwood he is lain.
And will not let you sleep.
My breath comes earthy strong.
Mine as the sulphur strong.
Love, where we used to walk.
And the flower will never return.
Mourn not for me I pray.
"What makes you sit by my grave and weep?
One kiss is all I crave.
Your life would not be long.
Where once we used to walk?
It will wither to a stalk.
Bring water from a stone.
Dig it as quick as you may.
A twelve-month in one day.
One kiss is all I grave.
And sink down in your grave.
All withered to a stalk.
I'll do as much for my sweetheart as any poor girl may.
Transcribed from the singing of Nancy Kerr by Kira White.


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how many km is the sun from earth
Is the sun 150 km from Earth?
The Sun is at an average distance of about 93,000,000 miles (150 million kilometers) away from Earth. It is so far away that light from the Sun, traveling at a speed of 186,000 miles (300,000 kilometers) per second, takes about 8 minutes to reach us.
How far km is the Earth from the sun today?
As noted earlier, Earth's average distance to the Sun is about 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) from the Sun. That's 1 AU. Mars is on the three-yard line of our imaginary football field. The red planet is about 142 million miles (228 million kilometers) on average from the Sun.
How long is the sun in KM?
Radius, diameter & circumference
The mean radius of the sun is 432,450 miles (696,000 kilometers), which makes its diameter about 864,938 miles (1.392 million km). You could line up 109 Earths across the face of the sun. The sun's circumference is about 2,713,406 miles (4,366,813 km).
How far is Jupiter right now?
Jupiter Distance from Earth
The distance of Jupiter from Earth is currently 751,068,892 kilometers, equivalent to 5.020585 Astronomical Units.
How far is each planet from Earth?
Planet (or Dwarf Planet)
Distance from the Sun (Astronomical Units miles km)
Number of Moons
Mercury 0.39 AU, 36 million miles 57.9 million km
Venus 0.723 AU 67.2 million miles 108.2 million km
Earth 1 AU 93 million miles 149.6 million km 1
Mars 1.524 AU 141.6 million miles 227.9 million km 2
What is the hottest planet?
Planetary surface temperatures tend to get colder the farther a planet is from the Sun. Venus is the exception, as its proximity to the Sun and dense atmosphere make it our solar system's hottest planet.Jan 30, 2018
How big is the world?
Is the sun bigger than the Earth?
The sun lies at the heart of the solar system, where it is by far the largest object. It holds 99.8% of the solar system's mass and is roughly 109 times the diameter of the Earth — about one million Earths could fit inside the sun.
How big is the biggest star?
On a stellar scale, it's really quite average — about half of the known stars are larger; half are smaller. The largest known star in the universe is UY Scuti, a hypergiant with a radius around 1,700 times larger than the sun.
4.543 billion years
Where is Earth located in the universe?
Well, Earth is located in the universe in the Virgo Supercluster of galaxies. A supercluster is a group of galaxies held together by gravity. Within this supercluster we are in a smaller group of galaxies called the Local Group. Earth is in the second largest galaxy of the Local Group – a galaxy called the Milky Way.
Which planet is visible from Earth now?
Visible planets, the moon and more. On any evening in November 2021, you can see 3 bright planets in the evening sky. They are Venus (brightest and closet to the sunset point), Jupiter (2nd-brightest) and Saturn. All 3 are very bright and noticeable.
How long would it take to get to Neptune?
Voyager 2 traveled 12 years at an average velocity of 19 kilometers a second (about 42,000 miles an hour) to reach Neptune, which is 30 times farther from the Sun than Earth is.
Where is Venus tonight India?
Planets Visible in New Delhi
Planetrise/Planetset, Tue, Nov 23, 2021
Venus Tue 10:18 am Tue 3:19 pm
Mars Wed 5:39 am Wed 11:04 am
Jupiter Tue 12:29 pm Tue 5:58 pm
What planet is 11 million miles from Earth?
Venus is the closest planet to Earth (it's also the most similar in size). But its proximity to our planet depends on the orbits of both.
Which planet has the longest day?
It was already known that Venus has the longest day – the time the planet takes for a single rotation on its axis – of any planet in our solar system, though there were discrepancies among previous estimates.May 3, 2021
How big is Jupiter?
Why is Mars so hot?
In orbit, Mars is about 50 million miles farther away from the Sun than Earth. That means it gets a lot less light and heat to keep it warm. Mars also has a hard time holding onto the heat it does get. On Earth, much of the sun's heat gets trapped in our atmosphere, which acts like a blanket to keep our planet warm.
When was the last planet discovered?
Pluto was the last planet discovered, although that distinction returned to Neptune when Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet. Pluto was discovered in 1930 by the astronomer Clyde Tombaugh. Many people had been searching for a ninth planet – the elusive planet X – for quite a while.
What planet is the coldest?
Uranus holds the record for the coldest temperature ever measured in the Solar System: a very chilly -224℃.Nov 8, 2021
How big is Earth compared to a human?
The Earth is about 3.5 million times larger than a human.
Is Earth bigger than Mars?
With a radius of 2,106 miles, Mars is the seventh largest planet in our solar system and about half the diameter of Earth. Its surface gravity is 37.5 percent of Earth's. … For one, Mars is on average about 50 percent farther from the sun than Earth is, with an average orbital distance of 142 million miles.
How big is the earth in comparison to the Sun?
The Sun is 864,400 miles (1,391,000 kilometers) across. This is about 109 times the diameter of Earth. The Sun weighs about 333,000 times as much as Earth. It is so large that about 1,300,000 planet Earths can fit inside of it.
How old is Jupiter?
Jupiter/Age
Jupiter was formed at the same time as the rest of the Solar System, from a large spinning disk of gas and dust. Astronomers think that all this happened about 4.6 billion years ago! So Jupiter is about 4.6 billion years old.
How old is Moon?
4.53 billion years
How big is the biggest black hole?
Ton 618, the largest ultramassive black hole, appears at the very end of the video, which, at 66 billion times the mass of the Sun, is going to weigh very heavily on how we daydream about the cosmos moving forward.
How many galaxies are there?
The Hubble Deep Field, an extremely long exposure of a relatively empty part of the sky, provided evidence that there are about 125 billion (1.25×1011) galaxies in the observable universe.
Why do stars blink?
The movement of air (sometimes called turbulence) in the atmosphere of Earth causes the starlight to get slightly bent as it travels from the distant star through the atmosphere down to us on the ground. … To our eyes, this makes the star seem to twinkle.
Who discovered Earth?
By around 500 B.C., most ancient Greeks believed that Earth was round, not flat. But they had no idea how big the planet is until about 240 B.C., when Eratosthenes devised a clever method of estimating its circumference.
Who was the first human on Earth?
The First Humans
One of the earliest known humans is Homo habilis, or "handy man," who lived about 2.4 million to 1.4 million years ago in Eastern and Southern Africa.
When was the first life on Earth?
about 3.7 billion years old
The earliest life forms we know of were microscopic organisms (microbes) that left signals of their presence in rocks about 3.7 billion years old. The signals consisted of a type of carbon molecule that is produced by living things.
Where is Milky Way?
It is located in the first galactic quadrant at a distance of 3 kpc (about 10,000 ly) from the Galactic Center. A simulation published in 2011 suggested that the Milky Way may have obtained its spiral arm structure as a result of repeated collisions with the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy.
What is in the center of Milky Way?
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The prime ministers of Vietnam and China said they both intend to settle East Sea disputes peacefully at their meeting in China's Nanning City Monday, Vietnam News Agency reported.
The discussion between PM Nguyen Tan Dung with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang coincided with the China-ASEAN Expo (CAEXPO) and the 10th China-ASEAN Business-Investment Summit.
The two leaders held that both nations need to cooperate to maintain peace and stability in the East Sea, and resolve every point of contention via non-violent negotiations.
PM Dung emphasized that the two sides should strictly abide by the agreement on basic principles guiding the settlement of sea-related issues between Vietnam and China, satisfactorily settle disputes on the basis of international law, especially the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and the spirit of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the East Sea (DOC).
He also suggested the two countries establish hotlines between the two defense ministries and fishery agencies as agreed in order to promptly deal with problems that arise, especially those relating to fishing vessels.
Chinese Premier Li said that the Chinese Party, State and people have always understood the importance of China's relationship with Vietnam and that they now seek to deepen the comprehensive strategic partnership with their southerly neighbor.
During their talks, the two leaders said they were delighted with recent positive developments in terms of the two countries' bilateral ties.
They also agreed: to increase visits and meetings between respective high-ranking; enhance mutually beneficial cooperation in all fields, especially economics and trade in order to fulfill the target of increasing bilateral trade to US$60 billion by 2015; to implement large-scale joint economic projects, especially those involving infrastructure; and to bolster cultural exchanges between the two peoples.
Li accepted PM Dung's invitation to visit Vietnam at his soonest convenience.


Recent sentiment data is getting a bit extreme toward the bullish side of the equation. This is often a precursor to a correction; in fact, the last time sentiment was this one-sided was Summer of 2011, shortly before the mini-crash. It's interesting to see sentiment reaching these extremes at a time when markets are bumping against long-term trend resistance (many markets have reached the upper boundaries of long-term trend channels, as I've covered in previous updates). In addition, equities are quite overbought on weekly time-frames.
But we can't talk about that stuff, can we? These days, even hinting at anything bearish is about as popular as hinting that you're considering becoming a politician (though decidedly less scandalous).
While we're seeing some early-warning indications that trouble may be brewing, we must remain cognizant of the fact that the trend is indeed still up. Things such as sentiment are warning signals; signs which suggest caution is warranted. They are not to be confused with guarantees of an immediate reversal of trend.
I view these additional warnings as added potential energy which is awaiting a catalyst. In physics, potential energy is stored energy; it's the energy available for a future reaction. I often view stock market chart patterns as similar to a coiling spring -- markets seem to build energy in advance of a move, and I believe that build-up stage is observable.
In the current instance, the "coiling spring" is wound pretty tight already. At some point, it will need to release some of that stored tension -- but that doesn't guarantee it can't wind even tighter before doing so. While I continue to feel risk is increasing for long positions, ideally, I'd still like to see a trip into the SPX 1825-1840 target zone before any major "events."
The 3-minute chart of the S&P 500 (SPX) notes a bullish buy trigger and a bearish sell trigger, along with the added note that Target 2 (1808-1813) has now been captured. Sustained trade below 1790 would suggest new swing lows.
The 3-minute chart above should help with directional tracking for the preferred vs. alternate count on the 30-minute chart below. As I've mentioned in previous updates, if all my work is perfectly aligned across time frames, I'd like to see a new low, followed by a new all-time-high, followed by an intermediate trend reversal. That's asking a lot from my work, though -- it would be unusual if there isn't an adjustment required somewhere along the line, so we'll continue to take it day-by-day as it unfolds.
I'd also like to add a quick update on the long-term oil chart. My work here suggests two main possibilities, both of which ultimately lead to new multi-year highs north of 114.83. The preferred count favors that this run is already underway, but the chart notes the signal which would suggest the alternate count was unfolding -- if the blue trend line breaks, we'll look for a trip to retest the bottom of the range. From there, I would then currently still anticipate new highs as long as the noted invalidation level holds.
In conclusion, as noted, we have fairly decent signals available to build from as the next few sessions unfold. Trade safe.
I too was hoping for the SP500 to take a trip to the 1840-1850 zone.
But maybe Santa is too busy or just thinks that the market has had a good year already.
Also looks like the US budget nerves are causing some hesitation in the markets (again).
Pretzel, awesome job on the downside call. You have been killing it lately. Great job.
If the preferred LT count is right (as I've been noting) it will be new lows, THEN new highs.
Nice work as usual Pretzel. I hope you keep knocking it out of the park.


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The Academic Reading test includes three long texts which range from descriptive and factual to discursive and analytical. The texts are authentic and are taken from books, journals, magazines, and newspapers.
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University of British Columbia 37 6.5 6.5
McGill University 44 6.5 6.5
McMaster University 77 6.5 6.5
University of Montreal 90 6.5 6.5
University of Alberta 132 6.5 6.5
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McMaster University 146 6.5 6.5
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You're the Only One Who Knows Your World!
Has anybody told you that they didn't "get" a part of your story although everything was perfectly clear to you? That's because not everybody knows your world entirely. We need to be conscious about what people know and what they don't.
After being postponed for one year, the Olympics finally happened. There were countless challenges and troubles besides the pandemic even before the event. Then, as the Olympians started landing in Japan, I started hearing questions and complaints.
When I saw video of an Irish gymnast, Rhys McClenaghan, jumping up and down on his bed at the Olympic Village, I wondered why. Soon, I learned that there was a rumor about cardboard bed frames being used in the Village for "anti-intimacy" purposes (in order to prevent athletes from spreading the virus) and he was testing the bed to prove the rumor wrong.
A little after that, I heard another complaint — the A/C remote controls were only in Japanese and the athletes didn't know how to operate them. (I assume there were instructions somewhere, but that's another story.)
I could understand where those claims and questions came from. If I were an Olympian, I might've complained, too. I'm sure they were expecting to receive impeccable service and goods from Japan. But here is the truth. Japan is still recovering from the nuclear disaster of March 2011, even after 10 years, and they've been making an effort to improve sustainability. When Tokyo was picked as the venue, they set a goal to make 99% of goods for the Olympics recyclable or sustainable, so the cardboard bed frames plan started way before the pandemic. The looks might be deceiving, but each athlete received a mattress individually customized for his or her own competition, height, weight, and muscle build, which was a first in Olympics history. On top of that, all the bedding was recyclable. The A/Cs will be donated to schools in disaster areas soon – that's why they needed to keep the remote controls in Japanese. Even the medals were made of used phones and computers.
Probably those who live in Japan knew behind-the-scenes stories and understood their reasons for each decision, but most of us don't.
Nobody knows your world unless you let others know about it.
I think Japan missed an opportunity to tell their stories. Had they done so, people might've been more understanding and appreciative. Okay, okay, I hear you. Japan has had a lot (I mean, A LOT!) on its plate. What they accomplished was beyond remarkable. Now, I will stop nitpicking and applaud the athletes, volunteers, and organizers – because, you know, I don't really know their world, after all.


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Q: Not able to do webscraping using beautifulsoup and requests I am trying to scrape the first two sections values i.e 1*2 and DOUBLECHANCE sections values using bs4 and requests from this website https://web.bet9ja.com/Sport/SubEventDetail?SubEventID=76512106
The code which I written is:
import bs4 as bs
import urllib.request

source = urllib.request.urlopen('https://web.bet9ja.com/Sport/SubEventDetail?SubEventID=76512106')
soup = bs.BeautifulSoup(source,'lxml')

for div in soup.find_all('div', class_='SEItem ng-scope'):
    print(div.text)

when I run I am not getting anything please help me anyone

A: The page is loaded via JavaScript, so you have 2 option. or to use selenium or to call the Direct API.
Instead of using Selenium, I've called the API directly and got the required info.
Further explanation about XHR & API < can be found once you click here.
import requests

data = {
    'IDGruppoQuota': '0',
    'IDSottoEvento': '76512106'
}

def main(url):
    r = requests.post(url, json=data).json()
    count = 0
    for item in r['d']['ClassiQuotaList']:
        count += 1
        print(item['ClasseQuota'], [x['Quota']
                                    for x in item['QuoteList']])
        if count == 2:
            break

main("https://web.bet9ja.com/Controls/ControlsWS.asmx/GetSubEventDetails")

Output:
1X2 ['3.60', '4.20', '1.87']
Double Chance ['1.83', '1.19', '1.25']

A: Try:
import bs4 as bs
import urllib.request
import lxml
source = urllib.request.urlopen('https://web.bet9ja.com/Sport/SubEventDetail?SubEventID=76512106')
soup = bs.BeautifulSoup(source,'lxml')
a = soup.find_all('div')
for i in a:
    try:
        print(i['class'])
    except:
        pass
        try:
            sp = i.find_all('div')
            for j in sp:
                print(j['class'])
        except:
            pass

This helps you find available classes in the <div> tag.
You get nothing when the class you give doesn't exist. This happens as many of the sites are dynamically generated and requests can't get them. In these cases, we need to use selenium.

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Child care funding, a top CT priority, stripped from Biden bill
By Lisa Hagen // CTMirror.org
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Mia Naula, 3, left, Mini Santosh, child care director, and Ana Clara Goncalves, 4, play with building toys at Action Early Learning Center in Danbury. "We are very systematically devalued, underinvested," Santosh said, who has been an early childhood educator for three decades.
Democrats believe they've on the verge of passing one of the most significant bills of President Joe Biden's administration, which they argue will reduce high costs caused by inflation. But a major provision that was a high priority for Connecticut was taken out as the party needed to slim down the legislation: funding for child care.
Child care was included in an initial version of the party's economic agenda and was heavily pushed by lawmakers in the state's congressional delegation. Biden visited Hartford last October to tour a child care facility and specifically promote those parts of his bill. Connecticut's two U.S. senators and all five House members joined him on the visit.
But pushback from a couple of senators in the party made it inevitable that some top priorities for Democrats would get stripped out of what was once known as the "Build Back Better Act." Because the party is using a special process known as budget reconciliation to advance the bill with a smaller number of voters and without any support from Republicans, passage hinges on the support of Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz.
Advocates in Connecticut are warning that more needs to be done for an industry where high prices for day care enrollment are the norm and facilities are still facing a staffing shortage caused in part by low wages. They're frustrated by the lack of action from Congress, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated an already fragile system.
Many of them saw the reconciliation process as the only vehicle for getting substantial assistance for early education at the federal level, especially with Democratic majorities in the House and Senate at risk in the November midterm elections. In addition to nearly $400 billion in funding for child care and pre-kindergarten, Biden's plan at one point also included a national paid family leave program and an extension of the enhanced child tax credit created under Democrats' pandemic relief package.
Now, activists wonder when key investments will come next from Washington.
For a bill now called the "Inflation Reduction Act," "we're not dealing with the biggest expense for families besides housing," said Merrill Gay, executive director of the Connecticut Early Childhood Alliance. "The regular order of business hasn't ever and isn't likely to produce the kind of changes that's needed for child care."
"We're still so conflicted about the role of women, and what's the ideal child-rearing setup, that we provide meager child care subsidies for single moms and let everyone else fend for themselves," Gay added.
Democrats' legislation has undergone a dramatic makeover over the past year and a half.
Initially $3.5 trillion, Biden's domestic economic agenda was sliced in half by the end of 2021. The bill was poised to be even smaller and only focus on prescription drug pricing and Affordable Care Act subsidies just a month ago, but Democrats suddenly secured a deal with Manchin to address tax policy and climate change. The revival was a major win for the party, though they announced it without securing support from Sinema. But she announced Thursday night she'll get behind the bill.
But that left early childhood advocates disappointed, especially since many in Connecticut have been particularly vocal over the past few years. They've been trying to shine a spotlight on a long-hobbled industry that grew more challenging during the pandemic with families navigating facility closures and programs combating staff shortages. And during that time, more women were leaving the workforce to care for their children without the ability to pay for it.
According to an analysis from First Five Years Fund, the number of Connecticut mothers with children under 5 who are working declined from 73.2% in 2019 to 71.1% in 2021. On top of that, 44% of residents live in a "child care desert," with that percentage increasing for low-income and Latino families.
Since the start of the pandemic, several early childhood groups in the state have held a weekly Zoom meeting on Monday mornings where a few hundred providers would attend. Liz Fraser, who works as the policy director for the Connecticut Association for Human Services, said Beth Bye, the commissioner of the Connecticut Office of Early Childhood, joined one to ask providers for suggestions on how to spend the first tranche of funding from the American Rescue Plan Act.
And in March, a coalition of organizations held a Morning Without Childcare rally where centers opened late to highlight the challenges they face and rally for $700 million in funding, though they secured a portion of that request from the state legislature.
Advocates say all of the members of the state's congressional delegation have been closely involved in their efforts and took out their frustrations on Manchin and Sinema for pushing a much smaller bill.
With the Senate divided 50-50, bills normally need to reach 60 votes to overcome a filibuster, which means some cooperation from Republicans. But with the reconciliation process, legislation can clear filibusters with only a simple majority. For Democrats, that means getting all 50 Democrats on board and having Vice President Kamala Harris on hand to break any ties.
No Republicans in either chamber of Congress support the legislation. They opposed larger versions of the bill, and now they argue that the latest — and smaller — iteration will barely reduce inflation or even add to it. Democrats vow that no one making less than $400,000 will see a tax increase, but Republicans counter that some in that classification will pay more taxes, citing a report from the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation.
For his part, Manchin only wanted measures in the bill that would specifically reduce inflation as well as the federal deficit. And Sinema eventually got on board once there was an agreement to remove the carried interest tax provision from the bill.
The Senate plans to hold a marathon session over the weekend to vote on amendments. It's possible members could propose some to restore the funding for paid leave, the child tax credit or child care programs. That'll be largely up to Manchin, though any Democrats opposed would sink an amendment.
"I understand there's always a frustration about not being able to do more," said Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn.. But he defended his party's ability to move major pieces of legislation in a 50-50 Senate, which he called "pretty impressive."
"The downside of setting your sights so high and so publicly is the attention often gets turned into what wasn't in the bill rather than what was in it," he added.
Both Murphy and Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., had signed onto a letter from Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., calling on Democrats to insert at least some child care investments into the reconciliation bill. Her plan would triple the federal Child Care and Development Block Grant, raise wages for providers and pilot a new program for six years. But that effort didn't materialize.
"I'm infuriated that the likely proposal has no specific program for sustaining child care," Blumenthal said. "I'm still a supporter of the Inflation Reduction Act, as deeply disappointed as I am about the lack of a specific child care program."
If the legislation passes the Senate, the House will take it up before it goes to Biden's desk. The House already passed a $1.75 trillion version of the Build Back Better legislation last November, but Manchin torpedoed that bill a month later when he said he couldn't support it in its current form.
As a member of the House Education and Labor Committee, Rep. Joe Courtney, D-2nd District, was involved in marking up the child care and pre-K portions of the bill. The House's version of Build Back Better, among other things, capped care costs at 7% of a family's income and increased compensation for child care workers.
"Centers don't have enough funds to hire people at a reasonable rate to compete with McDonald's and Amazon," Courtney said. "Kind of like health care, the issues have their cycles, and this one is not going away."
Activists are looking to the state for better solutions, though they acknowledge that federal funding would be more helpful. Connecticut and other states received some child care funds through a few pandemic rescue packages, including the American Rescue Plan Act that was passed last March. The analysis from the First Five Years Fund found that 43,452 "child care spots were saved by ARPA funds." During the pandemic, the state received about $346 million in funding through that bill and other revenue streams.
Like other states, Connecticut is dealing with a two-pronged issue with its child care system: high costs for families to participate, and a worker shortage that's causing centers not to operate at fuller capacity and with waiting lists.
According to a survey conducted in April of over 200 state-based providers by the Connecticut Association of Human Services, a quarter of child care capacity is unavailable because there's not enough workers. It estimates that more than 24,000 Connecticut child care spaces are "out of commission due to a lack of staff."
And while the monthly payments for the expanded child tax credit weren't extended into 2022, Connecticut had its own state rebate available. More than 70% of eligible households claimed the $250-per-child tax credit before the July 31 deadline.
In addition to some financial assistance through ARPA, Connecticut will get some more through the annual appropriations process to fund the government. Only half of the 12 bills have gotten through the House and have yet to go to the Senate, but Connecticut lawmakers have so far secured earmarks for projects in their districts, with some going to child care facilities, including one for Courtney's district that will replace a child care building in Groton.
"If we want our economy to be steady, we need to make sure parents have a safe place to send their children that costs a reasonable amount for them," Fraser said.
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