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Sciences. – Recording simulations of the formation of large-scale cosmic structures
Zera Pearson December 3, 2021 2 min read
12-03-2021 Researchers led by the University of Tsukuba run simulations of the formation of large-scale structures in the universe that accurately reproduce the dynamics of ghostly particles called neutrinos left over from the Big Bang. University of Political Investigation and Technology of Tsukuba
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New simulations of the formation of cosmic structures are able to accurately reproduce the complex dynamics of the elusive neutrinos left in the universe as a result of the Big Bang.
The study was published in SC '21: Proceedings of the International Conference on High-Performance Computing, Networks, Storage and Analysis, by researchers from the University of Tsukuba, Kyoto University and the University of Tokyo.
Neutrinos are much lighter than all other known particles, but their exact mass remains a mystery. Measuring this mass can help scientists develop theories beyond the Standard Model of particle physics and test explanations for how the universe evolved. A promising method for determining this mass is to study its effect on the formation of large-scale structures using simulations and compare the results with observations. But this simulation has to be very accurate.
"Standard simulations use techniques known as particle-based N-body methods, which have two main drawbacks when it comes to massive neutrinos," explains Dr. Naoki Yoshida, principal investigator at the university's Kavli Institute of Physics and Mathematics. Tokyo. "First, simulation results are subject to random fluctuations called firing noise. Second, these particle-based methods cannot accurately produce collision-free damping, a fundamental process in which fast-moving neutrinos suppress structure growth in the universe."
To avoid these problems, researchers have followed the dynamics of massive neutrinos by directly solving a central equation in plasma physics known as the Vlasov equation. In contrast to previous studies, they solved this equation in a full six-dimensional phase space, which means that all six dimensions associated with space and velocity were considered. The team combined this Vlasov simulation with an N-body simulation based on particles of cold dark matter, the main component of matter in the universe. They ran their hybrid simulations on a Fugaku supercomputer at the RIKEN Center for Computer Science.
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"Our largest simulation consistently combines Vlasov simulations on 400 trillion grids with calculations of 330 billion objects, accurately reproducing the complex dynamics of cosmic neutrinos," says Professor Koji Yoshikawa, lead author of the study. "In addition, the resolution time for our simulations is significantly shorter than that of the larger N-body simulation, and performance metrics are very good with up to 147,456 nodes (7 million CPUs) on Fugaku."
In addition to helping determine the mass of neutrinos, the researchers suggest that their scheme could be used to study, for example, phenomena involving electrostatic and magnetic plasmas and gravitational systems.
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This rustic looking coffee table was made with just two pallets. There had been a bunch of pallets stashed next door as they had just finished hauling new building materials in on them. I walked by them for a couple of days, with ideas stirring around in my head.
Last weekend I convinced Dustin to help me craft a table with them. I pretended to know what I was talking about when I explained my idea to him… but let's be honest, I was totally making it up on the spot.
(^ haha). He willingly started to help me, which kind of surprised me because he usually thinks my ideas are ridiculous. So, we started out with two pallets. I knew that I wanted to stack them to make a little magazine shelf and I wanted the gaps in the boards closed up. So first things first, we had to tear those babies apart.
Step 2: Remove boards from the top.
D hammered the boards off from the opposite side. We had a nice collection of rusty nails afterwards.
While he was doing that, I was giving them a light sanding. Once all of the boards were off, we had to put them back on, only this time they would be side by side.
Step 3: Place boards back on frame, side by side.
Since the boards were now side by side the width was smaller, so we just cut the remaining frame off of one side, which worked well because the size we ended up with was much better. Then we screwed the boards back in, using the existing nail holes.
This is where D started to doubt me and wanted to give up on the whole project. He said it was looking horrible and "wasn't cute". *gasp* how dare he! After a lot of arguing about what exactly "rustic" is, he agreed to finish helping me.
Next came the legs. I just used the scraps of wood we had chopped off from the frame and cut them to size. My legs were about 8.5″ tall. Then they were simply screwed into the bottom pallet.
Then came more sanding. Being that these are pallets, they are super rough and need lots of sanding. I used an electric sander for this part. Once they were nicely sanded, I stained them! The hardest part of this project was getting the stain right. I originally tried using an ebony shade and it just turned out super black. Then, I tried a reddish cherry stain (I wanted it to match my existing furniture) and again, it turned out super black. I opted for a lighter red oak shade and it seemed to do the trick. Just remember that if you're making one of these, the wood is untreated and soaks up the stain, so go a few shades lighter than what you really want.
After the stain was dry, I covered it with a clear varnish. Once it was all pretty looking, all we had to do was put it together. We brought it into the house first (because this thing is HEAVY and it was easier to take it in 2 pieces). Then we just set the bottom half down, and placed the other pallet on top of it. You can screw it down but we left it for fear of having to move it again in the future.
Step 8: Put top pallet onto bottom pallet and you're done!
My favourite part is the little "B" detailing on the wood… and of course the magazine shelf!
What do you think of our table project?? The best part? It was completely free!!!!


Still, as we rode along, the same rich, tranquil days of October; the air always potable gold, and every breath nepenthe.
Early on one of the fairest of afternoons when all were fairest, we reached Fort Bridger. Bridger had been an old hunter, trapper, and by and by that forlorn hope of civilization, the holder of an Indian trading-post. The spot is better known now. It was there that that miserable bungle and blunder of an Administration more fool, if that be possible, than knave, — the Mormon Expedition in 1858, — took refuge, after its disasters on the Sweetwater.
At the moment of our arrival, Bridger's Fort had just suffered capture. Its owner was missing. The old fellow had deemed himself the squatter sovereign of that bleak and sere region. He had built an adobe mud fort, with a palisade, on a sweep of plain a degree less desert than the deserts hard by. That oasis was his oasis, so he fondly hoped; that mud fort, his mud fort; those willows and alders, his thickets; and that trade, his trade.
But Bridger was one man, and he had powerful neighbors. It was a case of "O si angulus iste!" — a Naboth's-vineyard case. The Mormons did not love the rugged mountaineer; that worthy Gentile, in turn, thought the saints no better than so many of the ungodly. The Mormons coveted oasis, fort, thicket, and trade. They accused the old fellow of selling powder and ball to hostile Indians, — to Walker, chief of the Utes, a scion, no doubt, of the Hookey Walker branch of that family. Very likely he had done so. At all events, it was a good pretext. So, in the name of the Prophet, and Brigham, successor of the Prophet, the Latter-Day Saints had made a raid upon the post. Bridger escaped to the mountains. The captors occupied the Gentile's property, and spoiled his goods.
Jake Shamberlain told us this story, not without some sympathy for the exile.
How well I remembered all this conversation afterwards, and not long afterwards!
We rode up to the fort. A dozen or so of somewhat rubbishy soldiers, the garrison, were lounging about.
Jake and the main party stopped at the fort. "We rode on a quarter of a mile farther, and camped near a stream, where the grass was plenteous.
We left our little caballada nibbling daintily at the sweetest spires of self-cured hay, and walked back to the fort.
We stood there chatting with the garrison. Presently Brent's quick eye caught some white spots far away on the slope of the prairie, like Fails on the edge of a dreamy, sunny sea.
I knew of Sizzum as the most seductive orator and foreign propagandist of Mormonism. He had been in England some time, very successful at the good work. The caravans we had already met were of his proselytes. He himself was coming on with the last train, the one now in view, and steering for Fort Bridger.
As we stood watching, the lengthening file of white-hooded wagons crept slowly into sight. They came forward diagonally to our line of view, travelling apart at regular intervals, like the vessels of a well-ordered convoy. Now the whole fleet dipped into a long hollow, and presently the leader rose slowly up over the ridge, and then slid over the slope, like a sail winging down the broad back of a surge. So they made their way along over the rolling sweep of the distance.
Larrap and Murker here joined us, and, overhearing the last remarks, began to speak in a very disgusting tone of the women we had seen in previous trains.
"I don't wish to hear that kind of stuff," said Brent, turning sternly upon Larrap.
"It's a free country, and I shall say what I blame please," the fellow said, with a grin.
"You're blame squimmidge," said Larrap, and added a beastly remark.
Brent caught him by the collar, and gave him a shake.
"None of that," said I, stepping before him.
Brent gave the greasy man a fling.
He went down. Then he got up, with a trace of Bridger's claim on his red shirt.
"Very well. Learn to talk like a man, and not like a brute!" said Brent.
The two men walked off together, with black looks.
By this time the head wagons of Elder Sizzum's train had crept down upon the level near us. For the length of a long mile behind, the serpentine line held its way. On the yellow rim of the world, with softened outlines against the hazy horizon, the rear wagons were still climbing up into view. The caravan lay like a slowly writhing hydra over the land. Along its snaky bends, where dragon-wings should be, were herds of cattle, plodding beside the "trailing-footed" teams, and little companies of Saints lounging leisurely toward their evening's goal, their unbuilt hostelry on the plain.
Presently the hydra became a two-headed monster. The foremost wagon bent to the right, the second led off to the left. Each successor, as it came to the point of divergence, filed to the right or left alternately. The split creature expanded itself. The two wings moved on over a broad grassy level north of the fort, describing in regular curve a great ellipse, a third of a mile long, half as much across.
On either flank the march was timed and ordered with the precision of practice. This same manœuvre had been repeated every day of the long journey. Precisely as the foremost teams met at the upper end of the curve, the two hind-most were parting at the lower. The ellipse was complete. It locked itself top and bottom. The train came to a halt. Every wagon of the two hundred stopped close upon the heels of its file leader.
A tall man, half pioneer, half deacon, in dress and mien, galloped up and down the ring. This was Sizzum, so the by-standers informed us. At a signal from him, the oxen, two and three yoke to a wagon, were unyoked, herded, and driven off to wash the dust from their protestant nostrils, and graze over the russet prairie. They huddled along, a great army, a thousand strong. Their brown flanks grew ruddy with the low sunshine. A cloud of golden dust rose and hung over them. The air was loud with their lowing. Relieved from their drags, the herd frisked away with unwieldy gambolling. We turned to the camp, that improvised city in the wilderness.
Nothing could be more systematic than its arrangement. Order is welcome in the world. Order is only second to beauty. It is, indeed, the skeleton of beauty. Beauty seeks order, and becomes its raiment. Every great white-hooded, picturesque wagon of the Mormon caravan was in its place. The tongue of each rested on the axle of its forerunner, or was ranged upon the grass beneath. The ellipse became a fort and a corral. Within, the cattle could be safely herded. Marauding Redskins would gallop about in vain. Nothing stampedable there. Scalping Redskins, too, would be baffled. They could not make a dash through the camp, whisk off a scalp, and vanish untouched. March and encampment both had been marshalled with masterly skill.


Mornings on the beach are sacred and definitely don't happen often enough. It's such a nice, gentle way to start your day – a few deep breaths, the cool breeze on your face, and that feeling of optimism that anything is possible.
You inhale a few extra times to try to take that tranquil magic with you as you return to reality and go about the rest of your day. And it works, for a few hours at least, but by the time you get home from your day job you could use another infusion.
Coastal art is soothing way to bring the ocean to you when you can't quite make it out there as often as you should. The golden brown tones of this nature photograph will take you back to those mornings and a wave of zen will wash over you.
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In the fifth episode of The Gamers' Inn Jocelyn and Ryan shake off the winter snow blues with demo news for Mass Effect 3 and 3DS games. Also Skyrim makes yet another appearance as Jocelyn updates us on her achievement hunting while Ryan sinks back into old altaholic habits by rolling a Smuggler in SWTOR. Plus more!
Tune in next week for a special surprise-themed episode… Game on!


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A Yorkshire micro-brewery is officially lifting the lid on its range of new canned craft ales, not in a pub or at a beer festival - but at a nearby chippie!
Ainsty Ales Brewery, based in Acaster Malbis, York, will be partnering Scotts Fish and Chips for the launch of their brand new canned beer range - Ainsty Assassin, Cool Citra, Flummoxed Farmer and Killa Kiwi.
The beer tasting event with fish and chips is being held at 6.30pm on Wednesday, December 12, at Scotts, located just off the A64 at Bilbrough Top.
The cost, which includes tasting the four canned ales followed by a beer-battered fish and chip supper with mushy peas, bread and butter, and a pot of tea or coffee, is £10 per person.
Scotts Fish and Chips owner Tony Webster said: "We are delighted that Andy has chosen Scotts for his latest product launch.
"And, in addition to drinking the new beers, the customers will be able to eat it too as we are frying the fish in Ainsty Ales batter.
Andy Herrington, founder of Ainsty Ales, said: "I'm very keen to forge partnerships with local companies and, as Scotts has a similar ethos to ours, I thought it would make the perfect venue to officially launch our new range of canned ales.
Andy added: "Whilst we mainly brew traditional cask ale, we wanted something more edgy and left field to our range, so we called on the services of local graffiti artist and friend, Tom Sledmore, to create the initial art work.
"These were then taken by our York-based design company, United by Design, who transposed them on to each can. Both Tom and the United by Design team have done a fantastic job and I love the finished article.


On Thursday the 1st of December the school A team played Our lady in the Wix Cup semi-final.
We went into the game with confidence because we had beaten them in a rally. The game kicked off and we were on the front foot from the beginning. However Our Lady defended well and we didn't get many chances. Halftime came and it was still nil-nil.
After a quick team talk we were ready to start the 2nd half. We started to create chances but we just couldn't finish them. Calum ran up the wing and got into their box before passing the ball back to the edge of the box where Joe was waiting for it. He shot on his first touch and hammered it into the top corner to claim his first goal for the school.
After this we created a lot more chances and got some shots off. Finley won a corner and crossed it to Freddie who headed it past the keeper and into the back of the net to make it two -nil. After this we went a bit more defensive and brought harry and Samuel on the pitch. But we still had some shots especially from Finley whose shot narrowly missed the top corner.
The final whistle came and we were relieved of the tension. We left the pitch with a smile because we were through to the final of the Wix cup!


Stromatolites ("layered rocks") are structures made of calcium carbonate and shaped by the actions of photosynthetic cyanobacteria and other microbes that trapped and bound grains of coastal sediment into fine layers. They showed up in great abundance along shorelines all over the world about 3.5 billion years ago.
"Stromatolites were one of the earliest examples of the intimate connection between biology—living things—and geology—the structure of the Earth itself," said WHOI geobiologist Joan Bernhard, lead author of the study.
While the extinction of the dinosaurs has largely been explained by the impact of a large meteorite, the crash of the stromatolites remains unsolved. "It's one of the major questions in Earth history," said WHOI microbial ecologist Virginia Edgcomb, a co-author on the paper.
The researchers examined modern stromatolites and thrombolites from Highborne Cay in the Bahamas for the presence of foraminifera. Using microscopic and rRNA sequencing techniques, they found forams in both kinds of structures. Thrombolites were home to a greater diversity of foraminifera and were especially rich in forams that secrete an organic sheath around themselves. These "thecate" foraminifera were probably the first kinds of forams to evolve, not long (in geologic terms) before stromatolites began to decline.
After about six months, the finely layered arrangement characteristic of stromatolites had changed to a jumbled arrangement more like that of thrombolites. Even their fine structure, as revealed by CAT scans, resembled that of thrombolites collected from the wild. "The forams obliterated the microfabric," said Bernhard.
After about six months, the foraminifera were still present and alive—but the rock's structure had not become more clotted like a thrombolite. It was still layered.
Stromatolites, once widespread in coastal areas, now thrive in just a few locations in the tropical Atlantic and Indian Oceans and in some very salty lakes. The formations seen here are near Shark Bay on the western coast of Australia. The cyanobacteria in stromatolites live very near the surface of the rock, where they can receive the sunlight they need to photosynthesize.
Postdoctoral investigator Anna McIntyre-Wressnig (left) and geobiologist Joan Bernhard of WHOI collecting mud samples near Shark Bay, Australia. Bernhard studies foraminifera in a variety of habitats, including oceanic sediments and stromatolites.
WHOI microbial ecologist Virginia Edgcomb and geobiologist Roger Summons of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, co-authors of the current study, with samples of stromatolites they collected from Shark Bay, Australia.
A living thecate foraminiferan, with a plump cell body and numerous thread-like pseudopods (extensions) that it uses to capture prey and explore its surroundings. Thecate foraminifera produce a soft, organic sheath around themselves.
A calcareous foraminifer within a stromatolite from Highborne Cay, Bahamas. The hair-like structures are the foram's pseudopods. The organism appears bright green because it is labeled with CellTracker Green™.


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LOVE your lemon, FABULOUS colouring & sentiment!!!
Your hearts are the PERFECT finishing touch!!!
Beautiful work!! That lemon looks so real!!!
Lovely card!It looks like Chameleon pens truly take the guess work out of which tones to use! TFS!
These pens look so fun!
Nice coloring on the lemon!
Hohhot so bright and happy!
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Now that is a sweet card!!
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What a fun end to a fun week with some fab stamps and fantastic coloring!!!
great color and card design!
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Jamie, I love your card, it is just sweet! The stamp you used is adorable ad I really like the sentiment. I watched the video on how the Chameleon pens work and I am really considering them as my choice in alcohol markers. TFS!
Love the coloring on that lemon!
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On Passover, we'll be serving that platter of gefilte next to this homemade carrot citrus horseradish.
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First look at the new Dublin City Library on Parnell Square
Architects unveil plans for 11,000 sq m grand design in Parnell Square Cultural Quarter
Mon, Sep 10, 2018, 17:30
Deirdre Falvey
Scale design plans for the new Dublin City Library at Parnell Square Cultural Quarter. The design team, led by Grafton Architects and Shaffrey Architects, is currently finalising the planning application which will be lodged with An Bord Pleanala for consideration in the coming weeks. Photograph: Chris Bellew, Fennell Photography
The planned new Dublin City Library on Parnell Square – set to be the linchpin of a Parnell Square Cultural Quarter – took a further step today when its architects unveiled designs for its planning application this month.
The ambitious project, aiming to create a new cultural landmark for the city, involves 11,000 sq m of public amenity: a restoration of a Georgian terrace on the north of the square, and a dramatic new building behind it. The plan is for a two-year or three-year build, with a handover to Dublin City Council in 2023.
The library will be housed in six restored four-storey-over-basement Georgian houses at 23-28 Parnell Square (previously Coláiste Mhuire) and two other houses at 20 and 21 Parnell Square. Additionally, there will be a large new build behind 23-28.
The library will sit on both sides of Dublin City Gallery the Hugh Lane, and library and gallery will border a new public plaza. The newly-branded quarter includes the Irish Writers' Centre, the Dublin Writers Museum, the Gate Theatre, Poetry Ireland and the Garden of Remembrance.
Interior of the new Dublin City Library, Parnell Square, designed by Grafton Architects
Yvonne Farrell of Grafton Architects and Grainne Shaffrey of Shaffrey Architects (conservation architects) presented a scale model of the plans at Dublin City Hall today.
Farrell said it "celebrates the real value of city", creating a new south-facing public space; it "renews wonderful 18th century houses with their beautifully-proportioned rooms and it creates a memorable 21st century addition, weaving the historic and the contemporary together in an exciting way".
She and Shaffrey talked about opening up the privilege of access to Georgian rooms to everyone, as an amenity for the city, but also nationally and internationally, attracting an estimated 3,000 visitors daily.
With a budget of €100million, the new library will replace the Ilac Central Library. As well as having modern library facilities, it will include a music centre, design space, innovation hub and business library, 200-seat conference space, education centre, café and exhibition areas.
Dublin City Council will fund up to 45 per cent of the project, and at least 55 per cent is to come from philanthropy, said acting city librarian Brendan Teeling. Parnell Square Foundation, a charitable trust established by Kennedy Wilson (a global real estate investment company headquartered in Beverly Hills) is managing funding.
No State funding has yet been committed, and Teeling said it is a local authority project.
The sweeping contemporary design has a mezzanine level with views up and down, and lots of light from both east and west. It includes both intimate spaces and grand scale, a glass lift moving through the building, a roof terrace with views over the city, and roof gardens. to the rear, it will connect with Dorset Street.
City architect Ali Grehan said the library would revitalise Dublin's historic civic spine, "drawing people along the pivotal route that connects Christchurch and Dublin Castle, through College Green and O'Connell Street, to Parnell Square".
Parnell Square showing the new Dublin City Library site from the air. The buildings to the left and right of the Hugh Lane Gallery, plus a new build to the rear, will house the library. Photograph: Google Street View
Parnell Square showing the new Dublin City Library site from the air. The buildings to the left and right (yellow and orange) of the Hugh Lane Gallery (pink), plus a new build to the rear (blue), will house the library.
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In Japan, produced flexible displays using ink jet printing
LED panels made by inkjet printing, developed by the Japanese company JOLED. And even more happy, this is not some kind of prototype that requires centenary test, which is still not suitable for the mass market, and it is a finished product. The first batch of flexible displays already sent Sony, which will make them the medical monitors.
JOLED - founded in 2014, a joint venture by Sony and Panasonic, which is engaged in the creation and promotion on the market of flexible displays. Now the niche is relatively free, while Korean manufacturers such as LG and the Samsung, for example, are not far behind, working in this direction. But Koreans use their own costly development for the production of flexible screens, while JOLED found another effective way to create bendable screens - inkjet! Now print screens is not as easy as it may seem, but when it comes to mass production of flexible screens, the Japanese technology is seen much less expensive.
"Now we are engaged in mass production of OLED-panels and have already started to sell them. Our advantage is that we - the only company that focuses under one roof a complete production cycle, "- said Yoneharu Takubo, CTO JOLED.
He also said that their displays are lighter, and therefore good for any product. Now they can be used for outdoor advertising, trains, airplanes and smartphones. Using them, you can even do a TV, because this technology is not new - the first studies were launched in Panasonic ten years ago.
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Zaramella has held several roles at Mondelēz over a 20-year career at the company.
Mondelēz International has appointed its senior vice-president of corporate finance Luca Zaramella as its new chief financial officer (CFO), effective from 1 August 2018.
Zaramella has held several roles at Mondelēz over a 20-year career at the company, and he will now succeed Brian Gladden in the role as Gladden is moving on after 10 years as a public company CFO.
Zaramella has held several senior roles at the company over the last four years, including corporate controller, treasurer and global head of financial planning & analysis, and Mondelēz claims that these roles have prepared him for this role.


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Former Sen. Begich to challenge Walker in upcoming race
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – Democratic former U.S. Sen. Mark Begich is running for governor of Alaska, complicating Gov. Bill Walker's re-election bid.
Begich made his plans official shortly before a Friday filing deadline. Before the announcement, Walker, an independent, said he would skip the Democratic primary and gather signatures to appear on the general election ballot in November.
A recent court ruling allowed independents to run in the Democratic primary if they want the party's backing. Walker was elected in 2014 with Democratic support.
Begich said in an email to supporters that...


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Q: ISNULL giving wrong value in SQL server 2008 I have a scenario to check if first variable is null then shows to another variable value,for that i am using ISNULL but it gives wrong value.I don't know is wrong in my code given below :
DECLARE @str1 VARCHAR(5) = NULL,
        @str2 VARCHAR(10) = 'SQL Strings';

PRINT ISNULL(@str1, @str2);

But it print only SQL S.

A: That is because the type is determined by the first column, even if it is NULL.  If you do:
DECLARE @str1 VARCHAR(10) = NULL,
        @str2 VARCHAR(10) = 'SQL Strings';

PRINT ISNULL(@str1, @str2);

Then you will get the expected answer.
The documentation says:

Replacement_value
Is the expression to be returned if check_expression is NULL. replacement_value must be of a type that is implicitly convertible to the type of check_expresssion.

In other words, the second value is always converted to the first type.  As a note, this is different from coalesce() where SQL Server tries harder to determine the type.  So, coalesce(@str1, @str2) does what you expect (see here).

A: ISNULL() Returns same data type as check_expression, (1st arguement). Since it is only 5 characters the string is truncated:
You need to use COALESCE instead:
DECLARE @str1 VARCHAR(5) = NULL,
        @str2 VARCHAR(10) = 'SQL Strings';

PRINT COALESCE(@str1, @str2);
PRINT ISNULL(@str1, @str2);

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One question that comes with the development of news as more of a social experience is the degree to which people are more likely to get news that conforms to their views. The data here offer some first insights but also suggest there is room for more research.
Facebook news consumers are on par with U.S. adults overall in saying they prefer news that does not have a point of view over news that shares their own view. More than two-thirds, 68%, of Facebook news consumers say they prefer news that does not have a point of view, nearly identical to the 71% of the general population that says this.
Still, Facebook news consumers who find the site an important way to get news show a greater predilection to getting news they agree with. This group is more likely than those who say it is not important to prefer news with their point of view (38% of those who say it is important versus 26% of those who say it is not).
Those with a political party affiliation also are more likely to say they prefer news that shares their own point of view. Among U.S. adults overall, about a third of Republicans (33%) and Democrats (30%) like news this way, compared with 19% of independents. That pattern also is true among Facebook news consumers; among this group, 36% of Republicans, 34% of Democrats and just 24% of independents say they like news that mostly shares their own point of view.
Still, more than half of Facebook news consumers, 58%, have been surprised by a friend's or family member's views – suggesting that at least to some degree Facebook has helped people get to know where their friends stand on different issues.


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Arsene Wenger demands regardless he holds the support of his Arsenal FC slumps after they collided with a horrid 3-0 vanquish at battling Crystal Palace on Monday. Wenger's side endured their heaviest association loss of a pitiable season as objectives from Andros Townsend, Yohan Cabaye and Luka Milivojevic overwhelmed the dull Gunners. Armory's French administrator Arsene Wenger (R) and collaborator Steve Bould signal in their seats amid the English Premier League football coordinate between Crystal Palace and Arsenal at Selhurst Park in south London on April 10, 2017. Precious stone Palace won 3-0.
Stockpile were so limp for long stretches at Selhurst Park that the club's unbelievable previous striker Ian Wright guaranteed Wenger had lost the sponsorship of his squad. "In any event I f*****g attempted! That changing area is lost. Splendid stuff Palace," Wright tweeted. Enduring a fourth progressive away association overcome interestingly under Wenger, 6th set Arsenal are seven focuses behind fourth set Manchester City in the race to meet all requirements for the Champions League by means of a main four wrap up. Incensed Arsenal fans droned "Arsene Wenger we need you to go", while his players weren't saved either as "you're not fit to wear the shirt" rang around Selhurst Park. Be that as it may, the Arsenal administrator was unyielding his underachieving stars stay on his side. "I don't think my players didn't need it, however we lost duels in definitive minutes and that is the way recreations are chosen at this level," Wenger said. "I comprehend our fans are disillusioned and we as a whole are profoundly this evening.
It's extremely stressing and frustrating the way we lost the amusement. "We arranged and everybody arranged well. It's hard to clarify soon after the diversion. "It's harming, obviously. On that front that is the most troublesome for us. It has results on our odds to be in the main four. We are in a troublesome position." Wenger presently can't seem to uncover on the off chance that he will sign an expansion to the agreement that lapses toward the finish of the season. In any case, inquired as to whether the vulnerability about his future is influencing the players, he stated: "No, I don't think so. "I'm not in the temperament to talk about it. Right now I pay more regard to the reality we had a disillusioning outcome. "Each annihilation is a major stress. I've overseen more than 1,100 diversions for Arsenal and we're not used to that. "Sadly it is that way and we need to react rapidly and not acknowledge it. "I'm disillusioned and resolved to put things right. This evening the stress is not me, it's the reality we lost a defining moment." Suffering such a humiliating outcome on account of his old opponent Sam Allardyce just added to Wenger's troubles and the Palace chief didn't squander the opportunity to take a couple hits at the Frenchman. "We as a whole know Arsenal are experiencing their most exceedingly awful spell for a considerable length of time," Allardyce said. "Strategically the players knew about how to beat Arsenal. The primary thing was to safeguard and baffle them.


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Studios Offering More Titles for VOD
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Movie studios are beginning to offer more of their first run pay-per-view and library titles to Time Warner Cable's aggressive commercial video-on-demand service.
Time Warner's Oceanic Cable system in Honolulu has gone from offering 10 VOD movies at its initial commercial deployment last January to about 30 this month, system marketing director Allan Akamine said.
The number of participating studios has also increased significantly since the initial launch and now includes Warner Bros., New Line Cinema, Universal Studios, Artisan, Buena Vista and 20th Century Fox.
The system-which is offering digital services in about 11 percent of its 250,000 homes-will offer such recognizable box-office titles in the next few months as The Sixth Sense, Next Friday, The Green Mile, Driving Me Crazy and Teaching Mrs. Tingle, Akamine said.
Most of the movies will be offered during their regular PPV windows, although Time Warner is negotiating with the studios to exhibit films simultaneously with their home-video windows.
In addition, Warner Bros. for the first time will make several of its library titles available on a VOD basis to Oceanic, including movies like A Clockwork Orange, A Streetcar Named Desire, Ace Ventura, Beetlejuice and Conspiracy Theory.
For the library titles, Akamine said, the system will most likely offer a discounted price of $1.95 instead of the regular $3.95 retail price in an effort to entice buys.
While the hardware is working effectively, Akamine added, the quality of the system's VOD content will inevitably determine how successful a business VOD will become.
"We've been tweaking the nuts and bolts of the system. Now the task is to secure content because content is king." he said. "We're very encouraged with how the studios are taking notice and supplying us with their titles."
Studio executives have confirmed that Time Warner is currently looking to secure the same early windows for its VOD service that the home-video industry currently enjoys. The MSO has already reached a distribution agreement with New Frontier Media's Pleasure adult pay-per-view service to provide up to 30 movie titles per month for the VOD systems.
"I think [VOD] is a new business, so the studios are being cautious. There's a lot of revenue to protect on both the home-video and theatrical side," Akamine said. "But as they begin to feel confident about VOD, hopefully, they'll be more willing to participate."
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Hello! Hope you are well this fine Friday! I can't believe it's still January. My mind is totally set for spring, I've even ordered some spring clothes I know I won't be able to wear for at least 2 months! Bah. Buy hey, one can always decorate a wall with clothes, especially skirts and dresses! Now here's a round of nice stuff I've spotted lately. I've put some gorgeous flowers into the mix, just to get you (and me!) extra happy.
Firstly, I think this wall decor idea, found at ljuvligt hemma, is amazingly smart and easy. For a hallway or any undecorated passage or corner. Just get a canvas, paint it white (or any other colour), stretch some lovely satin ribbons across it, attach them with a stapler and…tada! Collect your favourite memories!
Soon it's spring, I hope! Pic styled by marcus hay via bright bazaar. This is the greatest most wonderful decor essential right know I think – flowers en masse!
And below, from ad france feb-march issue, a frame grouping with two great features in one: round shaped mirrors!
Moving on, I love displays and still life styled like this one below, spotted at krickelin's. Relaxed, effortless, non-squary styling. Gold, bronze & copper items are always escpecially nice (for some reason, I'm not into silver at all) and so are antlers.
Finally, a huge bunch of flowers (perfect to combine with the cool style above)..
to wish you a Happy weekend!
The mirror wall is niiiiizzze!!!
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Home Pulse WHAT UNESCO WANTS TO TEACH OUR CHILDREN
WHAT UNESCO WANTS TO TEACH OUR CHILDREN
At the beginning of 2018, almost ten years after the first edition, the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO) unveiled an updated "International Technical Guidance on Sexuality Education" purporting to advocate what it described as "quality comprehensive sexuality education to promote health and well-being, respect for human rights and gender equality, and empower children and young people to lead healthy, safe and productive lives." In actuality, underneath the flowery, eceptive language, the document represents a full-blown assault on parental rights and traditional morality that its critics say could devastate an entire generation of children.
Writing in the New American last month, the magazine's foreign correspondent, Alex Newman correctly pointed out that while the UN document claims to provide an "evidence-based approach" to teaching young children about subjects such as sex, homosexuality and gender confusion, much of that so-called "evidence" comes from organizations that promote issues such as abortion and sexual "liberation". For example, the scandal-ridden, pro-abortion advocacy group, Planned Parenthood, along with the UN itself, were exposed by the US Congress for helping the Chinese implement coercive population control schemes including forced abortions. "Unsurprisingly, considering the UN's views and its reliance on rabid abortionists for "evidence" and "research" the slaughtering of unborn children in the womb is portrayed as a "right" of women and girls. The unalienable right to life of the babies is nowhere mentioned in the document" writes Newman. Another organization involved in compiling the "evidence" was an advocacy group called OutRight Action International which promotes the so-called "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex" (LGBTQI) agenda. It is no surprise, therefore, that throughout the manual, the UN wants everyone to support that agenda. "The document is filled with references to waging war on "homophobia" and "transphobia," terms that are routinely applied to describe opposition to the redefinition or undefinition of marriage that began in recent years and culminated with a rogue Supreme Court lawlessly pretending to create a "right" to something called a homosexual "marriage." writes Newman
While UNESCO played a leading role in developing the document, the global sexuality education guidelines are also being publicly supported by UNICEF, the UN agency ostensibly in charge of "protecting" the world's children; UNAIDS, which supposedly exists to protect humanity from sexually transmitted diseases; UN Women, the radical pro-abortion group supposedly leading the global fight for "women's rights;" and even the World Health Organization, which Newman describes as "an extreme organization whose leaders are so out of touch that they recently tried to name Robert Mugabe as "goodwill ambassador" for his alleged success in providing "universal healthcare" to the victims of his own barbarous tyranny."
The document itself is profoundly shocking to any sane person who believes and adheres to traditional notions of family or morality, whether they be Christian, Jew, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, agnostic, atheist or anything else. In the New American article, Newman lists a shocking litany of UNESCO's co-called "guidelines". For instance, the document promotes "sexual pleasure" for children, beginning before they even turn ten. They call for children at age nine to "describe male and female responses to sexual stimulation." and "demonstrate respect for diverse practices related to sexuality". The "learning objectives" demand that by age twelve children "support the right for everyone" to "express their sexual feelings" with sex being totally divorced from morality. They are also to be taught about the use of condoms.
The UNESCO document is filled with the "sexual-revolution" ideology that is already devastating families across the world. It brazenly encourages sexual relations outside of marriage and paints traditional morality as old-fashioned and wrong. But its gets worse. Astonishingly, at age five, the children are expected to be able to "define gender and biological sex and describe how they are different." They are also expected to "express respect" for homosexual parenting. "All people should be able to love who they want," the document says, a clear reference to normalizing and promoting homosexual relations. When children are nine, they should be able to "explain how someone's gender identity may not match their biological sex." At that same age, they must also "demonstrate respect for the gender identity of others." In other words, even before they reach age ten, they must not only accept, but "respect," gender confusion which is already being shown to be correlated with mental distress and even suicide. The manual indoctrinates children to fight against "discrimination" based on "gender identity or sexual orientation."
Finally, in a brazenly unashamed assault on children and families, the UNESCO document says children should be taught to question and even reject their parents' values and beliefs on sex and marriage, with children told that they should "acknowledge" that their values may be "different" from their parents or guardians. In a section on how to deal with outraged parents or communities that object to the sexualization of their children in government schools, the document has talking points for everything that might be said by critics. In a section addressing arguments about how comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) deprives children of their innocence, CSE advocates and promoters are told to respond that: "Sexuality education is about more than sex. It includes information about the body, puberty, relationships, life skills, etc." Even the children's attitudes will be measured and tracked, to ensure that every child is coming away with the attitudes the UN, not parents, want them to have. "CSE includes a number of attitudinal and skills-based learning outcomes," the document says. It notes, too, that the "learning" of these UN-approved attitudes on sex, abortion, homosexuality, gender confusion, and more is "distributed across a range of school subjects." Values must change, as well. "It is essential to include a focus on values within a comprehensive approach to sexuality education," the UN says while repeatedly emphasizing that those "values" are subjective. Adding insult to injury, the document ridicules parents' concerns about the sexualization of their young children "Parents' objections to CSE program in school are often based on fear and lack of information about CSE and its impact." it says. Parents must understand, it continues, that they won't be completely cut out of the picture. The UN just wants to enter into a "partnership with parents." And obviously, in its view, the UN knows best.!
In a response to the guidelines, Sharon Slater, president of Family Watch International, an organization that works to defend life, marriage, and the family around the world, did not hold back. In an e-mailed statement she wrote: "We have repeatedly warned governments, parents and other stakeholders that comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) is a radical, graphic, sexual-rights, pleasure-based approach to sex education that promotes promiscuity, abortion, and diverse sexual practices and identities to young children. With this new UNESCO technical guidance publication, we now have additional, conclusive evidence to prove it."
The document, she continued, "clearly reveals the UN's stealth global agenda to manipulate and sexualize children through comprehensive sexuality education." As one example, she noted that the document openly promotes "unscientific gender ideology that asks children to identify the difference between biological sex and gender." It also teaches children "they have a right to sexual relationships," she added. "Parents should be outraged by the content of the UNESCO publication, and UN Member States should demand that the sponsoring UN agencies withdraw their support immediately," added Slater, Noting the vast array of UN agencies pushing the scheme, Slater highlighted the danger. "This is an all-out frontal assault on the health and innocence of the world's children from some of the most powerful and well-funded institutions that set the health standards for women and children across the world," she said. The CSE mantra is a crucial weapon in the war on the family, Slater concluded. "Comprehensive sexuality education is the primary tool used to advance the global abortion and sexual rights agenda and is designed to change the traditional sexual and gender norms of society by changing the worldviews of children," she explained. For more information on the dangerous agenda, Slater recommended a short documentary video on CSE by Family Watch International posted at WarOnChildren.org.
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Toru Furuya is a Japanese actor, voice actor, and narrator who was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, on July 31, 1953. He was a young actor with Gekidan Himawari, children's acting group. He is presently working with the talent agency Aoni Production.
The anime characters that Furuya is most known for including Amuro Ray from Gundam, Hyma Hoshi from Star of the Giants, Pegasus Seiya from Saint Seiya, Yamcha from Dragon Ball, Kysuke Kasuga from Kimagure Orange Road, and Tuxedo Mask (Sailor Moon). These are the jobs he views as being most crucial. Beginning with the movie Super Mario Bros. – The Great Mission to Rescue Princess Peach, he has provided Mario's voice for a number of anime and commercials (1986).
In the cast of Mobile Suit Gundam 00, he also played Ribbons Almark under the alias Noboru Sgetsu (, Sgetsu Noboru) (but used his real name in the narration role). Furuya's first roles in a non-Universal Century Gundam series were both the narration and Ribbons Almark. Yuen Biao, a Hong Kong action movie actor, is most known for using his official dubbing voice.
His appearance as an acting guest at Tsukino-Con 2017 was confirmed on January 2 by the convention.
Toru Furuya wed Mami Koyama, a voice actress, in 1976; they subsequently divorced in 1983. In 1985, he was wedded to Satomi Najima.
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The NFC South division has become increasingly more competitive over the last few years with emergence of teams like the Atlanta Falcons and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. There is no question that Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints are the team to beat in the NFC South every single season, but things have gotten much tougher within the division as of late with the Falcons becoming a legitimate Super Bowl title contender and the Bucs being much better than anyone anticipated up to this point in the Josh Freeman era.
Before last week's win over the New Orleans Saints, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers looked like they were in serious danger of losing control of their season. With a devastating loss to the up-and-coming San Francisco 49ers in Week 5 (48-3), the Bucs looked lost on both sides of the football and saw running back LeGerette Blount go down with an injury that might keep him out the rest of the season.
Without Blount coming out of the backfield and the passing game not being sharp as it was last season, the Tampa Bay Bucs seemed like a team that had lost its mojo, but then came out last week and put on a show against the division-leading Saints. With a win over the Saints, the Bucs are right back in the hunt for the NFC South division title which makes every game from here on out a must-win situation for Josh Freeman and company.
In Week 7, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will have their work cut out for them for a third consecutive as they will be defending their home field against the Chicago Bears. Even though the Bears have struggled at times this season, especially on the offensive line, the boys from the Windy City are still a solid football team on both sides of the ball and always a tough team for any opponent.
Now that the NFC North division is being dominated by the undefeated Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers (6-0) and the up-and-coming Detroit Lions (5-1), the Chicago Bears best chance of making their way back into the postseason this time around is to clinch a playoff berth in the NFC Wild Card. With that being said, this game could be extremely important for Jay Cutler and company as they might be going head-to-head against the Bucs in the near future for the Wild Card.
As of right now, the Chicago Bears have been given the edge in this Week 7 matchup with a -1 point spread. Despite being on the road and still struggling to protect Pro Bowl quarterback Jay Cutler, the Bears are the favorites; which leaves me scratching my head.
This game has the potential to be one of the best of the week, but in the end I believe the Bucs will get a second straight win at home.
Take the Bucs at +1.


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PASADENA, Calif. - NASA's Cassini spacecraft has discovered evidence that points to the existence of an underground ocean of water and ammonia on Saturn's moon Titan. The findings, made using radar measurements of Titan's rotation, will appear in the March 21 issue of the journal Science.
"With its organic dunes, lakes, channels and mountains, Titan has one of the most varied, active and Earth-like surfaces in the solar system," said Ralph Lorenz, lead author of the paper and Cassini radar scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., "Now we see changes in the way Titan rotates, giving us a window into Titan's interior beneath the surface."
Members of the mission's science team used Cassini's Synthetic Aperture Radar to collect imaging data during 19 separate passes over Titan between October 2005 and May 2007. The radar can see through Titan's dense, methane-rich atmospheric haze, detailing never-before-seen surface features and establishing their locations on the moon's surface.
Using data from the radar's early observations, the scientists and radar engineers established the locations of 50 unique landmarks on Titan's surface. They then searched for these same lakes, canyons and mountains in the reams of data returned by Cassini in its later flybys of Titan. They found prominent surface features had shifted from their expected positions by up to 30 kilometers (19 miles). A systematic displacement of surface features would be difficult to explain unless the moon's icy crust was decoupled from its core by an internal ocean, making it easier for the crust to move.
"We believe that about 100 kilometers (62 miles) beneath the ice and organic-rich surface is an internal ocean of liquid water mixed with ammonia," said Bryan Stiles of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. Stiles is a contributing author to the paper.
The study of Titan is a major goal of the Cassini-Huygens mission because it may preserve, in deep-freeze, many of the chemical compounds that preceded life on Earth. Titan is the only moon in the solar system that possesses a dense atmosphere. The moon's atmosphere is 1.5 times denser than Earth's. Titan is the largest of Saturn's moons, bigger than the planet Mercury.
"The combination of an organic-rich environment and liquid water is very appealing to astrobiologists," Lorenz said. "Further study of Titan's rotation will let us understand the watery interior better, and because the spin of the crust and the winds in the atmosphere are linked, we might see seasonal variation in the spin in the next few years."
Cassini scientists will not have long to wait before another go at Titan. On March 25, just prior to its closest approach at an altitude of 1,000 kilometers (620 miles), Cassini will employ its Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer to examine Titan's upper atmosphere. Immediately after closest approach, the spacecraft's Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer will capture high-resolution images of Titan's southeast quadrant.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The mission is managed by JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. The Cassini orbiter also was designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The radar instrument was built by JPL and the Italian Space Agency, working with team members from the United States and several European countries.
For information about Cassini visit: http://www.nasa.gov/cassini and http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov .


MAUREEN Nolan admits she's having a blast in the rock 'n' roll musical Footloose which comes to Manchester on Monday.
Based on the Eighties' hit movie, Footloose tells the story of a city boy who moves to a country town where dancing is seen as the devil's work.
Maureen plays Vi Moore, wife of the town's fire and brimstone preacher determined to keep evil rock and roll away from the town's youngsters.
"It's just pure fun from start to finish." said Maureen who with her sisters was one of the UK's most successful girl groups of all time.
"It's packed with Eighties numbers and I'd forgotten how great that music is," she said.
Maureen co-stars with Gareth Gates who first broke through on the TV talent search Pop Idol and has subsequently starred in a host of West End musicals.
"Gareth is such a genuinely nice person," said Maureen. "I think he's a revelation in this show. He has a comedy role which is very different for him and it shows what a versatile performer he is."
Maureen is equally impressed with the rest of the cast.
"They all act sing, act and play instruments, there's so much energy in the show," she said. "It's hard to believe that everything on the show is absolutely live.
"The youngsters have decided that they are going to get me to learn an instrument by the end of the tour. We will be on the road for around nine months and they are convinced they can do it.
"At the moment they are steering me towards the flute, but we'll see."
Maureen spent over 30 years with the Nolan Sisters. Hits such as I'm in the Mood For Dancing and Don't Make Waves made them regulars on Top of the Pops and the group became massive stars in Japan.
"I'd never in a million years thought I'd be doing what I'm doing now," said Maureen. "I was quite a shy person.
"We'd all done a bit of panto but that's not really acting and then Bernie got a part in a show and did such a good job with it.
"At that time I was looking for something to get into and just thought that if she could do it then perhaps I could give it a try."
Maureen's first stage role came in the production Mum's the Word.
"It was based on stories from real women and I was in it for about a year," she said.
From there she was asked to play Mrs Johnstone in the Willy Russell musical Blood Brothers, three of her sisters have also played the role over the years.
"I have tried to learn from everyone I have acted with in the show," she said. "You can never stop learning.
"This year I had to choose between Footloose and Blood Brothers and I just thought that after 10 years it would be good for me to have a change.
In 2009 the Nolans got together for a series of shows but fans expecting another reunion may be disappointed.
"You can never say never," said Maureen. "We did have plans for a tour in 2012 but then Bernie was taken ill. When she passed away we thought about continuing with the tour as a tribute to her but it was just too soon for any of us.
"I think we'll all have to have zimmer frames if we go out on the road now," she laughed. "Plus it would be very difficult to prise Colleen away from Loose Women these days. But you never know."
However for the next few months it is Footloose which is getting Maureen's full attention.
"It's one of those shows which is just so enjoyable to be in and such fun for the audience. We are getting some fantastic comments and the reaction in the theatres has been tremendous."
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'I'm done with being shy.' Naomi Osaka on overcoming her crippling shyness
But in this moment of pause, a period of lockdown with no tennis and no expectations, the 22-year-old is looking to confront an opponent from within: her crippling shyness. "For me, I have a lot of regrets before I go to sleep, and most of the regret is that I don't speak out about what I'm thinking," she says, speaking to CNN Sport from the kitchen of her Los Angeles home. The night before this interview, the world No.10 — who topped the world rankings for the first time in 2019 — had uncharacteristically posted a series of soul-searching tweets which revealed to the world her inner struggle. "I'm done being shy. It's really a waste of my time," she wrote. "I could've shared so many ideas by now, I could've had convos with so many different people. All the things I could've learned but no I'm over here actually putting my own limiter on myself."Visit CNN.com/sport for more news, features, and videosShe says her inability to speak up has, at times, resulted in decisions being taken away from her. "There's a lot of times where I see myself in situations where I could have put my input in, but instead I've held my tongue and things kept moving in a way that I didn't really enjoy," she explains. "I feel like if I asserted myself I would have gotten the opportunity to see what would have happened."
'I would like to thank Jay Z and Beyoncé'
But one missed opportunity that plays over and over again in her mind has nothing to do with tennis. It involves her biggest idols, Jay Z and Beyoncé.During an off-season break in 2019, she met the superstar couple while on holiday on the Caribbean islands of Turks and Caicos but could barely utter a sentence. "He started talking to me, but I got really nervous and started giving one word replies so he suddenly said, 'Are you shy?' and I said, 'yeah,' and the convo came to a screeching halt." It's a deeply human admission from a global sports star who, it turns out, is just like the rest of us when it comes to feeling star struck. The difference is, she will likely meet them again and, by then, the tennis star knows what she would want to say."I want to take the chance to tell people I appreciate them while I can," she says."I would like to thank Jay Z and Beyoncé for making music that motivates me, because there was a period in my life where I just watched Beyonce performances to get motivated. "Even right now I'm listening to older Jay Z songs because I feel like they're really chill."READ: Halep's lockdown life: military on the streets, slower pace at home
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THE BIDDING was brisk at the Allsop Space auction of mostly distressed property in Dublin's Shelbourne Hotel yesterday, as 1,600 people packed into the auction room and spilled out into the bar and lobby of the hotel.
A total of 97 of the 108 properties sold under the hammer with a further two selling after auction, raising a total of €11.4 million. Around half were cash buyers – 30 per cent less than at previous auctions.
A small group of protesters from a group calling themselves the Anti-Eviction Taskforce held a low-key protest outside the hotel. However proceedings came to a brief halt when one protester stood up in front of the auctioneer and warned about the "ill will" that could affect buyers of distressed property in communities.
"Don't bid then," replied auctioneer Gary Murphy from UK-based Allsop, before thanking the protestor for his "kind words".
Around a third of the lots are apartments, and one of the bargains of the auction was a four-bed apartment in Northwood, Santry which sold for €76,000 – €16,000 over its reserve.
A first floor two-bed apartment at The Cubes in Beacon South Quarter, Sandyford, D18, with parking, sold for €152,000.
A good bargain for someone in the room but not such good news for Jim Kelly who was waiting for the lot to come up. His daughter bought a similar apartment in Beacon South Quarter four years ago for €420,000. "She told me not to tell her what it got," he said.
There are some big properties with low reserves to whet buyer appetite including a double-fronted period house at 13 Garville Road, Rathgar, Dublin 6 with a reserve of €420,000 – the most expensive house of the auction – which sold for €435,000 – and 28 Grove Park in Rathmines, also in Dublin 6 which sold for bang on the reserve price €380,000. Both were leasehold properties divided into flats. A two-bed apartment at Adelaide Square, Dublin 8 with a reserve of €145,00 sold for €201,000 and a mid-terrace three storey over basement house on the North Circular Road, Dublin 7 went for €277,000 – €72,000 over the catalogue price.
A former nursing home in Rathfarnham on 1.64 acres with planning permission for 32 townhouses with a reserve of €400,000 attracted a lot of bidders and went for €580,000.
"The bidding was very business-like, there was no waiting around," says Robert Hoban, director of auctions at Space Allsop. "A lot were there to bid, there weren't as many onlookers as before." For those that failed to sell, "it was simply because they were priced too high".
Commercial properties included 174 Pembroke Road, Dublin 4, a freehold mid-terrace building arranged in two restaurants, which sold for €630,000 – the most expensive lot in the auction overall . The smallest lot was a 0.5-acre landholding in Ennis, Co Clare, which sold after auction for €11,000.
In Donegal, five four-bed houses in Beechwood Park in Convoy had reserves of €21,000 each – the cheapest homes going under the hammer but actually sold for between €32,000 and €53,000. A lakeside log cabin-style house on the shores of Lough Sillan in Shercock, Co Cavan, with access to a private marina, went for €131,000 – over four times its reserve.
The next Allsop Space auction will be held on March 1, 2012.
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ideaken blog - collaborate to innovate: Groupthink – Please agree!
Correct! For me, best strategy is usually generated by individual because group thinking usually generate a normal idea that will be agreed by public instead of an idea that is unique.
Complicated process - to be individual and yet be part of a group !
This is an interesting blog. We are attempting to create an inventor's club and the challenge of capturing the synergy of a group's intelligence while maintaining the individual's intellectual property (his idea) is really a conunundrum. So far, it is like herding cats.
The Delphi technique, as you probably know, allows you to collect ideas and views in a kind of virtual of brainstorming which does not allow one person or idea to suppress others.
I also think that following up a simple brainstorm of ideas with an FMEA can be very powerful.
In most of the meeting in any form the flow of the meeting is influenced by the formal/informal leader and mostly influenced by strong communiators. As a result the efficient person with lessor confidence/communication abilty can develop this viewpoint. In nut-shell is it possible to give due waitage to all view-points and still reach o a concensis.
Firstly, I recommend you read Keith Sawyer's book Group Genius. It is a well researched volume on Groups and creative thinking.
Secondly, you've pointed out two of the reasons why traditional brainstorming (as developed and popularised by Alex Osburn in the late 50s) does not actually work very well. Ideas tend to cluster around the first interesting idea to come up and dominant people tend to dominate idea trends in a brainstorming event.
To overcome this, I have used the approach of starting brainstorming by having people write ideas on a sheet of paper first. Then I put them in pairs and they combine, discuss and add new ideas. I continue combining groups until the entire brainstorming team is working as a group. This allows individuals to put interesting new ideas into the brainstorming pot; ideas that probably would not have been suggested otherwise.
Thirdly, and most importantly, while diverse groups are potentially FANTASTIC for generating and developing ideas, they are dismal at selecting the best idea(s). And you should NEVER base decision making on a group popularity vote! For the reasons you gave as well as the inherent conservativism of most corporate thinkers and the fact that highly innovative ideas often seem crazy at first, groups tend to vote for incremental innovations rather than radical or breakthrough innovations.
By all means, let diverse groups generate, build upon and develop ideas, but use tight, disciplined teams and structured criteria for evaluating ideas and determining which have the greatest value potential (which, please note, is very different from being the "best idea").
On another note, research has shown that the problem you've mentioned, of individuals dominating brainstorming, as well as other problems of traditional brainstorming largely disappear when using on-line tools to brainstorm. Note, however, that this is the case with focused brainstorming or innovation process management which involves people collaboratively generating ideas to solve a problem or achieve a goal and not an open suggestion box where people are invited to submit any idea they have.
Groupthink can be a problem, but so too can failure to draw out the ideas of "passengers" - those that follow the crowd or sit shly keeping their views to themselves.
In my workshops, I break the group into much smaller teams (3 or 4) who brainstorm, then pass their a small number of their best ideas onto a different team for development, who then pass an even smaller number of the developed ideas to another team who select one or two for evaluation. This tends to reduce groupthink substantially and has proven very effective.
Group think issues are impacted by the ownership mindset. Often in an engineering environment the mindset is to contribute without putting yourself in the position to take the blame. You've pointed out the results of that type of environment.
On the hand in the environment where someone takes the ownership collaboration is still vital. The owners should surround themselves with expert advise. Allow others to collaborate to lend their expertise for as long as appropriate. The creative owner can then pick and choose what works and it will greatly accelerate the creative process.


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Analysis of glass fracture pattern made by .177″ (4.5 mm) Caliber air rifle
Harshey
Srivastava
Egypt J Forensic Sci
Background: Glass is the hard, amorphous solid. Glass fragments may be an evidence of great value encountered in the investigation of various types of offences. At the scene of occurrence, the glass may be fractured either as an intentional act or due to accident. Glass fractures are of paramount importance in shooting cases where firearm is used as it can provide significant information related to the occurrence and facilitates a variety of evaluations. In fact, fractography i.e. analysis of fracture pattern, is the means and methods for characterization of fractured units or fragments in order to study or identify the mechanism of such fractures. The study of fracture pattern of glass has been of long interest to the forensic community. The glass fracture pattern analysis is very useful to establish the sequence of events and to link together items of evidence and it is of paramount importance in such cases where firearm is used. Now, the use of air guns in criminal activities is an alarm to the law enforcement agencies. The main objective of this work is to analyze the pattern of the fractures on windowpane of various thicknesses with regular .177″/ 4.5 mm lead pellet fired through the .177″/ 4.5 mm caliber Air Rifle manufactured in India. The window panes were kept at front, perpendicularly and away at a fixed distance from the muzzle end of Air Rifle. Samples were measured and analyzed on some fixed parameters. To analyze the consistency, measurements were analyzed graphically and statically checked for the goodness of fit (Chi-Square Test). Result: The graphical representation of the measurements of different samples shows regularity in the features and Chi Square test gives very significant information regarding the consistency. Conclusion: The hole diameter is ranging from 4.77 to 7.5 mm in case of air rifle. It can lead to distinguish the weapon by which fracture was made, whether it is standard or air weapon. The outcomes of this work on the windowpane by .177″/4.5 mm air rifles may be efficacious to forensic community.
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Infection born by Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has swept the world within a time of a few months. It has created a devastating effect on humanity with social and economic depressions. Europe and America were the hardest hit continents. India has also lost several lives, making the country fourth most deadly worldwide. However, the infection and death rate per million and the case fatality ratio in India were substantially lower than many of the developed nations. Several factors have been proposed including the genetics. One of the important facts is that a large chunk of Indian population is asymptomatic to the SARS-CoV-2 infection. Thus, the real infection in India is much higher than the reported number of cases. Therefore, the majority of people are already immune in the country. To understand the dynamics of real infection as well as level of immunity against SARS-CoV-2, we have performed antibody testing (serosurveillance) in the urban region of fourteen Indian districts encompassing six states. In our survey, the seroprevalence frequency varied between 0.01-0.48, suggesting high variability of viral transmission among states. We also found out that the cases reported by the Government were several fold lower than the real infection. This discrepancy is majorly driven by a higher number of asymptomatic cases. Overall, we suggest that with the high level of immunity developed against SARS-CoV-2 in the majority of the districts, it is less likely to have a second wave in India.
Evidential significance of multiple fracture patterns on the glass in forensic ballistics
Tiwari
Background: In the current scenario, glass plays a vital contribution in our standard everyday life. Fractured and fragmented glasses are most commonly encountered at the crime scene. During the commission of the crime, glass breaks and shatters into fragments or into minute particles that serve as trace evidence and may provide a significant lead for the probe. The fracture of glass could be the consequence of an intentional act or unintentional act. For the forensic purpose, study of glass fractures, i.e., fractography has paramount importance as it can provide noteworthy data and encourages an assortment of assessments to investigate the case especially in the shooting cases where a firearm is used. Multiple fractures on a glass pane also have enough potential to establish an investigative link. Presently, air guns are being used in many of the cases due to their simple accessibility. There are a number of cases that have been reported that involved the use of air guns. Result: This study was conducted to evaluate the pattern of multiple fractures on the glass by the air rifle. For this purpose, glass panes of various thicknesses were test fired perpendicularly at a fixed range with an air rifle having round nose pellet. Measurements and analysis were made on some fixed parameter. Data was analyzed graphically and statistically to check the consistency in the trends. Conclusion: Consistency in the trends was observed, which is analyzed by the test for the goodness of fit. The findings of this work have provided some significant different perspectives that may effectively contribute to the criminal investigation.
Trends in Gunshot Residue Detection by Electrochemical Methods for Forensic Purpose
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Genetic data for PowerPlex 21™ autosomal and PowerPlex 23 Y-STR™ loci from population of the state of Uttar Pradesh, India
Kumawat2,
Int J Legal Med
Analysis of the ex-vivo transformation of semen, saliva and urine as they dry out using ATR-FTIR spectroscopy and chemometric approach
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The ex-vivo biochemical changes of different body fluids also referred as aging of fluids are potential marker for the estimation of Time since deposition. Infrared spectroscopy has great potential to reveal the biochemical changes in these fluids as previously reported by several researchers. The present study is focused to analyze the spectral changes in the ATR-FTIR spectra of three body fluids, commonly encountered in violent crimes i.e., semen, saliva, and urine as they dry out. The whole analytical timeline is divided into relatively slow phase I due to the major contribution of water and faster Phase II due to significant evaporation of water. Two spectral regions i.e., 3200–3400 cm−1 and 1600–1000 cm−1 are the major contributors to the spectra of these fluids. Several peaks in the spectral region between 1600 and 1000 cm−1 showed highly significant regression equation with a higher coefficient of determination values in Phase II in contrary to the slow passing Phase I. Principal component and Partial Least Square Regression analysis are the two chemometric tool used to estimate the time since deposition of the aforesaid fluids as they dry out. Additionally, this study potentially estimates the time since deposition of an offense from the aging of the body fluids at the early stages after its occurrence as well as works as the precursor for further studies on an extended timeframe.
Forensic effectiveness and genetic distribution of 23 autosomal STRs included in Verifiler PlusTM multiplex in a population sample from Madhya Pradesh, India
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ICONIC PRODUCER, SONGWRITER, AND ARTIST LINDA PERRY RELEASES NEW MUSIC IN OVER A DECADE AND SCORES DOCUMENTARIES FOR SEAN PENN AND SOLEIL MOON FRYE
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New York, NY – (March 25, 2021) – Iconic Singer-Songwriter, Producer, and Pop Culture shapeshifter Linda Perry releases her own music for the first time in over fifteen years. Perry, best known for her groundbreaking songwriting career for artists such as Pink, Adelle, Christina Aguilera, etc., has now set her sights on film and TV, lending her musical prowess to two significant documentaries.
Nineties child star Soleil Moon Frye has created an original Hulu documentary, KID 90, about the coming of age, composed of hundreds of hours of real footage as a kid in that era serving as a blueprint of Frye's life. At the end of KID 90, a forty-something Soleil Moon Frye is confronted by a letter she wrote at sixteen years old asking her now self a list of questions and hoping she feels loved. Perry was inspired to confront those questions by writing "THE LETTER," which the video has premiered on Consequence of Sound. Perry asked Director Don Hardy to shoot the video as she knew he would deliver something beautiful. "The colors were influenced by the movie projections that filled the room and that consumed my body. My studio was the backdrop to capture this raw and emotional performance. The visual evokes the feeling that then transcends. I was able to create this cathartic score that amplified the raw emotion that was unveiled through Soleil's journalistic POV. I feel proud of what I was able to create, and I am honored that Soleil Moon Frye let me take this journey," says Perry.
On the end of the pendulum, Perry was enlisted by actor and activist Sean Penn to score the music to his award-winning documentary CITIZEN PENN debuting on discovery+ on May 6. With unprecedented access, director Don Hardy ("Theory of Obscurity") and his crew followed the humanitarian efforts of Sean Penn and a dedicated team of volunteers as they set up a long-term base to bring aid to Haitians after the devastating 7.0 earthquake struck in 2010. Perry also co-wrote another original song, "Eden: To Find Love," with U2's Bono, who also performs it.
Perry continues to show her support for Penn's activism by teaming up to raise money for his charity CORE, most recently with its expansion of its efforts in the US to bring COVID-19 testing to one of the nation's largest vaccination sites at Dodger Stadium. The digital concert Rock 'N' Relief event brought the likes of megastar powers of the Foo Fighters, Ziggy Marley, Gavin Rossdale, Jewel, Sheryl Crow, Macy Gray, Juliette Lewis and the Licks, Miguel , Silversun Pickups, Kevin Bacon, Carly Simon, Deadmau5, Jenny Lewis and Blake Sennett of Riley Kilo and others. "My dream was not to be a big rockstar; it was to create music that would play a supporting role in films. Every song I write comes from a visual, not a word, not a strum," says Perry.
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