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As in every Greek island, religious feasts celebrated in every village and town by organizing festivals. The most interesting Samos Festival are: • The feast of Agia Paraskevi held on July 26 • The feast in honour of the Assumption of Virgin Mary held on August 15 in Hora • The feast of Agia Marina […]


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Figure showing the proposed quantum computer architecture by the researchers. Credit: Gouzien & Sangouard.
Quantum computing systems are computer systems that are based upon the key principles of quantum theory. They could be significantly faster and more efficient than conventional computing systems in terms of speed as well as performance. Many physicists around the world have been working on these systems over the past decade.
Quantum computers instead of encode information in bits with binary values (i.e. either 1 or 0,) use quantum bits, or qubits. Qubits, which are quantum mechanical analogs to bits, can exist in multiple states (i.e. 1 and 0 simultaneously).
Quantum computing systems consist of a number of qubits that are placed on a 2D chips. These qubits directly compute information. Classical computers are composed of a processor that processes information and a memory which stores it.
Recent research by researchers at Universit ParisSaclay and CNRS, CEA has evaluated the performance of a quantum computing device with a structure similar to that of conventional computers. The results were published in Physical Review Letters. They suggest that quantum computing systems with quantum information storage units could be made to have significantly fewer qubits.
One of the researchers involved in the study, lie Gouzien, said to Phys.org that the architecture most commonly used for quantum computers consists of laying all the qubits onto a 2D chip and then running the computation directly on these qubits. "In our work we wanted to challenge the idea of having all of the qubits on one processor and explored another architecture closer to that of a classic computer where a small processor can be coupled with a storage."
Gouzien and his team decided to assess their ability to run an algorithm in order to effectively compare their architecture to existing quantum computing systems. They evaluated the resources their architecture required to run the algorithm, as well as the overhead for error correction.
Gouzien stated that the algorithm was broken down into elementary gates and then adapted to the architecture being investigated. We also considered the overhead associated with error correction. These two components were then combined to determine the physical resources needed to run the factorization algorithm.
Researchers found that a processor with 13,436 physical qubits and a memory capable of storing 28 million spatial modes as well as 45 temporal modes could factor a 2048-bit RSA number in 177 days using 3D gauge color codes. The researchers also suggested that additional error-correction steps be added to the qubits stored every second. This would increase the runtime by around 23%. They found that increasing the number qubits within the processing unit could result in shorter storage times and run times.
Gouzien and his coworkers found that adding a memory component to a quantum computing system's processing unit could significantly reduce the number qubits. The team proposes that the microwave interface could be used to connect a superconducting processor and multiplexed memories.
Gouzien stated that while designing an efficient quantum memory can be difficult, it is still a research area and a greater challenge than fitting millions upon millions of qubits in a cryostat. We hope our article will encourage research on quantum memories and orient it towards their use in computation.
Continue reading A three-qubit entangled condition has been achieved in a fully controlled array of silicon spin qubits
More information: lie Gouzien et., Factoring 2048 RSA Integers within 177 Days with 13436 Qubits, and a Multimode memory, Physical Review Letters (2021). Information from the Journal: Physical Review Letters lie Gouzien et al., Factoring 2048 bit RSA Integers within 177 Days with 13436 Qubits, and a Multimode Memory. (2021). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.140503
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One-Pot Chicken Casserole with Creamy Sherry Sauce
Nothing could be easier than throwing all of the ingredients into one dish and letting your oven do the work for you!
Number of servings : 4
Prep time: 5 Minutes
Cooking time: 25 Minutes
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2 tbsp olive oil
8 skinless boneless chicken thighs, about 1¼ lb total weight
½ lb button mushrooms
6 oz baby leeks
4 small turnips, peeled and quartered
1 lb pre-washed small new potatoes
2⅓ cups chicken stock, made with a stock cube
4 tbsp medium or sweet sherry
7 oz green beans
1 tbsp cornstarch
1 cup plain low-fat yogurt
grated zest of 1 lemon
Heat the oil in a large pot or flameproof casserole. Add the chicken, then season and cook over a high heat for 2 minutes, turning over to brown both sides. Remove from the pot and set aside on a plate.
Add the mushrooms to the pot and cook over a high heat, stirring, for 1 minute. Then reduce the heat and add the leeks, laying them across the middle of the pot and moving the mushrooms to the sides. Add the turnips and potatoes in an even layer.
Pour in the stock and add the sherry. Bring to the boil. Put the chicken on top of the vegetables, adding any juices from the plate. Reduce the heat so that the stock bubbles steadily without boiling too fiercely. Cover and cook for 10 minutes.
Add the green beans, cover and continue to bubble for a further 5 minutes or until the chicken and vegetables are cooked. Using a slotted spoon, divide the ingredients among four warmed plates or transfer them to a serving dish. Keep warm while finishing the sauce.
Boil the cooking stock hard, over a high heat, in the open pot for 5 minutes to reduce it slightly and concentrate the flavour. Meanwhile, mix the cornstarch to a smooth paste with the yogurt and lemon zest.
Gradually add a little and then most of the reduced stock to the yogurt mixture, stirring, and pour it back into the pot. Bring to the boil, stirring, to thicken the sauce slightly. (The cornstarch stabilizes the yogurt and prevents it from curdling.) Taste for seasoning. Pour a little of the sauce over the chicken and vegetables, and serve the remainder separately.

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If there is anything on Earth that seems simple and ordinary, it is the soil beneath our feet. Other than farmers, people hardly think of it except when tending to their lawns, and even when we do turn our attention to the soil, we tend to view it as little more than a place where grass grows and earthworms crawl. Yet the soil is a complex mixture of minerals and organic material, built up over billions of years, and without it, life on this planet would be impossible. It is home to a vast array of species that continually process it, enriching it as they do. Nor are all soils the same; in fact, there are a great variety of soil environments and a great deal of difference between the soil at the surface and that which lies further down, closer to the bedrock.
HOW IT WORKS
The Beginnings of Soil Formation
It has taken billions of years to yield the soil as we know it now. Over the course of these mind-boggling stretches of time, the chemical elements on Earth came into existence, and the uniformly rocky surface of the planet gradually gave way to deposits of softer material. This softer matter, the earliest ancestor of soil, became enriched by the presence of minerals from the rocks and, over a longer period, by decaying organic matter.
After its formation from a cloud of hot gas some 4.5 billion years ago, Earth was pelted by meteorites. These meteorites brought with them solid matter along with water, forming the basis for the oceans. There was no atmosphere as such,but by about four billion years ago, volcanic activity had ejected enough carbon dioxide and other substances into the air to form the beginnings of one. The oceans began to cool, making possible the earliest forms of life—that is, molecules of carbon-based matter that were capable of replicating themselves. (For more on these subjects, see Sun, Moon, and Earth and Geologic Time. On the relationship between carbon and life-forms, see Carbon Cycle.)
All of these conditions—Earth itself, an atmosphere, waters, and life-forms—went into the creation of soil. Soil has its origins in the rocks that now lie below Earth’s surface, from which the rain washed minerals. For rain to exist, of course, it was necessary to have water on the planet, along with some form of atmosphere into which it could evaporate. Once these conditions had been established (as they were, over hundreds of millions of years) and the rains came down to cool the formerly molten rock of Earth’s surface, a process of leaching began.
Leaching is the removal of soil particles that have become dissolved in water, but at that time, of course, there was no soil. There were only rocks and minerals, but these features of the geosphere, along with the chemical elements in the atmosphere and hydrosphere, were enough to set in motion the development of soil. While the atmosphere and hydrosphere supplied the falling rain, with its vital activity of leaching minerals from the rocks, the minerals themselves supplied additional chemical elements necessary to the formation of soil. (The chemical elements are discussed in several places, most notably Biogeo-chemical Cycles. See also Minerals and Rocks.)
Light micrograph of blue-green algae, an example of the simplest plant organisms that were the forerunners of life on the earth. Plant life was made possible by the leaching of potassium, calcium, and magnesium from rock, and, in turn, plant death lent organic matter to the ground to help form the basis for soil.
The first plants
Among the elements leached from the rock by the falling rains were potassium, calcium, and magnesium, all of which are essential for the growth of plant life. Thus, the foundation was laid for the first botanical forms, a fact that had several important consequences. First and most obviously, it helped set in motion the formation of the complex biosphere we have around us today. Not only did the simplest algae-like plants serve as forerunners for more complex varieties of plant and animal life to follow, but they also played a major role in the beginnings of an atmosphere breathable by animal life. As the plants absorbed carbon dioxide from their surroundings, there gradually evolved a process whereby the plant received carbon dioxide and, as a result of a chemical reaction, released oxygen.
In addition, plant life meant plant death, and as each plant died, it added just a bit more organic material—and with it nutrients and energy— to the ground. Notice the word ground as opposed to soil, which took a long, long time to form from the original rock and mineral material. Indeed, the processes we are describing here did not take shape over the course of centuries or millennia but over whole eons—the longest phases of geologic time, stretching for half a billion years or more (see Geologic Time). Only around the beginning of the present eon, the Phanerozoic, more than 500 million years ago, did soil as such begin to take shape.
What Is Soil?
As the soil began to form, processes of weathering, erosion, and sedimentation (see the entries Erosion and Sediment and Sedimentation) slowly added to the soil buildup. Today the soil forms a sheath over much of the solid earth; just inches deep or nonexistent in some places, it is many feet deep in others. It separates the planet’s surface from its rocky interior and brings together a number of materials that contribute to and preserve life.
Though its origins lie in pulverized rock and decayed organic material, soil looks and feels like neither. Whether brown, red, or black, moist or dry, sandy or claylike, it is usually fairly uniform within a given area, a fact for which the organisms living in it can be thanked. Under the surface of the soil live bacteria, fungi, worms, insects, and other creatures that continually churn through it and process its chemical contents.
A filter for water and a reservoir for air, soil provides a sort of stage on which the drama of an ecosystem (a community of mutually interdependent organisms) is played out. It receives rain and other forms of precipitation, which it filters through its layers, replenishing the groundwater supplies. This natural filtration system, sometimes augmented by a little human ingenuity, is amazingly efficient for leaching out harmful microorganisms and toxins at relatively low levels. (Thus, for instance, septic tank drainage systems process wastewater, with the help of soil, before returning it to the water table.)
By collecting rainwater, soil also gives the rain a place to go and thus helps prevent flooding. Water is not the only substance it stores; soil also collects air, which accounts for a large percentage of its volume. Thus, oxygen is made available to the roots of plants and to the large populations of organisms living underground. The creatures that live in the soil also die there, providing organic material that decays along with a vast collection of dead organisms from aboveground: trees and other plants as well as dead animals—including humans, whose decomposed bodies eventually become part of the soil as well.
Factors That Influence Soil
The processes that formed soil over the eons and that continue to contribute to the soil under our feet today are similar to those by which sedimentary rock is formed. Sedimentary rocks, such as shale and sandstone, have their origins in the deposition, compaction, and cementation of rock that has experienced weathering. Added to this is organic material derived from its ecosystem—for example, fossilized remains of animals.
Both sedimentary rock and soil are made up of sediment, which originates from the weathering, or breakdown, of rock. Weathered remains of rocks ultimately are transported by forces of erosion to what is known as a depositional environment, a location where they are sedimented. (See Sediment and Sedimentation for more about these processes.) The nature of the “parent material,” or the rock from which the soil is derived, ranks among five key factors influencing the characteristics of soil in a given environment.
The others are climate, living organisms, topography, and time.
Parent material, climate,and organisms
Minerals, such as feldspars and micas, react strongly to natural acids carried by rain and other forms of water; therefore, when these minerals are present in the rock that makes up the parent material, they break apart quite easily into small fragments. On the other hand, a mineral that is harder—for example, quartz—will break into larger pieces of clastic, or rock, sediment. Thus, the parent material itself has a great deal to do with the initial grain of the sediment that will become soil, and this in turn influences such factors as the rate at which water leaches through it.
The release of chemical compounds and elements from minerals in weathering provides plants with the nutrients they need to grow, setting in motion the first of several steps whereby living organisms take root in, and ultimately contribute to, the soil. As the plant dies, it leaves behind material to feed decomposers, such as bacteria and fungi. The latter organisms play a highly significant role in the biogeochemical cycles whereby certain life-sustaining elements are circulated through the various earth systems.
In addition, still-living plants provide food to animals, which, when they die, likewise will become one with the soil. This is achieved through the process of decomposition, aided not only by decomposers but by detritivores as well. The latter, of which earthworms are a great example, are much more complex organisms than the typically single-cell decomposers. Detritivores consume the remains of plant and animal life, which usually contains enzymes and proteins far too complex to benefit the soil in their original state. By feeding on organic remains, detritivores cycle these complex chemicals through their systems, causing them to undergo chemical reactions that result in the breakdown of their components. As a result, simple and usable nutrients are made available to the soil.
Topography and time
Then there is the matter of topography, or what one might call landscape—the configuration of Earth’s surface, including its relief or elevation. Soil at the top of a hill, for instance, is liable to experience considerable leaching and loss of nutrients. On the other hand, if soil is located in a basin area, it is likely to benefit from the vitamins and minerals lost to soils at higher elevations, which lose these nutrients through leaching and erosion.
In addition, topography influences the presence or absence of organic material, which is vital if the soil is to sustain plant life. Organic matter in mountainous areas accounts for only 1% to 6% of the soil composition, while in wet lowland regions it may constitute as much as 90% of soil content. Because erosion tends to bring soil, water, and organic material from the highlands to the lowlands, it is no wonder that lowlands are almost always more fertile than the mountains that surround them.
Finally, time is a factor in determining the quality of soil. As with everything else that either is living or contains living things, soil goes through a progression from immaturity to a peak to old age. In the earth sciences, age often is measured not in years, which is an absolute dating method, but by the relative dating technique of judging layers, beds, or strata of earth materials. (For more about studying rock strata as well as relative dating techniques, see Stratigraphy.)
Layers in the Soil
If you dig down into the dirt of your backyard, you will see a miniature record of your regions’s geologic history over the past few million years. Actually, most homes in urban areas and suburbs today have yards made of what is called fill dirt— loose earth that has been moved into place by a backhoe or some other earthmoving mechanism. Even though the mixed quality of fill dirt makes it difficult to discern the individual strata, the soil itself tells a tale of the long ages of time that it took to shape it.
Better than a modern fill-dirt yard, of course, would be a sample taken from an older community. Here, too, however, human activities have intervened: people have dug in their yards and holes have been filled back up, for instance, thus altering the layers of soil from what they would have been in a natural state. To find a sample of soil layers that exists in a fully natural state, it might be necessary to dig in a woodland environment.
Leaves on the forest floor are an example of humus, a component of the A horizon, or top-soil.
In any case, anyone with a shovel and a piece of ground that is reasonably untouched—that is, that has not been plowed up recently—can become an amateur soil scientist. Soil scientists study soil horizons, or layers of soil that lie parallel to the surface of Earth and which have built up over time. These layers are distinguished from one another by color, consistency, and composition. A cross-section combining all or most of the horizons that lie between the surface and bedrock is called a soil profile. The most basic division of layers is between the A, B, and C horizons, which differ in depth, physical and chemical characteristics, and age.
At the top is the A horizon, or topsoil, in which humus—unincorporated, often partially decomposed plant residue—is mixed with mineral particles. Technically, humus actually constitutes something called the O horizon, the topmost layer. Examples of humus would be leaves piled on a forest floor, pine straw that covers a bare-dirt area in a yard, or grass residue that has fallen between the blades of grass on a lawn. In each case, the passage of time will make the plant materials one with the soil.
Owing to its high organic content, the soil of the A horizon may be black, or at least much darker than the soil below it. Between the A and B horizons is a noticeable layer called the E horizon, the depth of which is a function of the particulars in its environment, as discussed earlier. In rough terms, topsoil could be less than a foot (0.3 m) deep, or it could extend to a depth of 5 ft. (1.5 m) or more.
In any case, the E horizon, known also as the eluviation or leaching layer, is composed primarily of sand and silt, built up as water has leached down through the soil. The sediment of the E horizon is nutrient-poor, because its valuable mineral content has drained through it to the B horizon. (The E horizon is just one of several layers aside from the principal A, B, and C layers. We will mention only a few of these here, but soil scientists include several other horizons in their classification system.)
Subsoil, regolith, bedrock
The appearance and consistency of the soil change dramatically again as we reach the B horizon. No longer is the earth black, even in the most organically rich environments; by this point it is more likely to exhibit shades of brown, since organic material has not reached this far below the surface. Yet subsoil, which is the consistency of clay, is certainly not poor in nutrients; on the contrary, it contains abundant deposits of iron, aluminum oxides, calcium carbonate, and other minerals, leached from the layers above it.
The rock on the C horizon is called regolith, a general term for a layer of weathered material that rests atop bedrock. Neither plant roots nor any other organic material penetrate this deeply, and the deeper one goes, the more rocky the soil. At a certain depth, it makes more sense to say that there is soil among the rocks rather than rocks in the soil.
Beneath the C horizon lies the R horizon, or bedrock. As noted earlier, depths can vary. Bedrock might be only 5-10 ft. deep (1.5-3 m), or it might be half a mile deep (0.8 km) or perhaps even deeper. Whatever the depth, it is here that the solid earth truly becomes solid, and for this reason builders of skyscrapers usually dig down to the bedrock to establish foundations there.
Life Beneath the Surface
The ground beneath our feet—that is, the topmost layer, the A horizon—is full of living things. In fact, there are more creatures below Earth’s surface than there are above it. The term creatures in this context includes microorganisms, of which there might be several billion in a sample as small as an acorn. These include decomposers, such as bacteria and fungi, which feed on organic matter, turning fresh leaves and other material into humus. In addition, both bacteria and algae convert nitrogen into forms usable by plants in the surrounding environment (see Nitrogen Cycle).
We cannot see bacteria, of course, but almost anyone who has ever dug in the dirt has discovered another type of organism: worms. These slimy creatures might at first seem disgusting, but without them our world could not exist as it does. As they burrow through soils, earthworms mix organic and mineral material, which they make available to plants around them. They also may draw leaves deep into their middens, or burrows, thus furnishing the soil with nutrients from the surface. In addition, earthworms provide the extraordinarily valuable service of aerating the soil, or supplying it with air: by churning up the soil continuously, they expose it to oxygen from the surface and allow air to make its way down below as well.
Nor are these visible, relatively large worms the only ones at work in the soil. Colorless worms called nematodes, which are only slightly larger than microorganisms, also live in the soil, performing the vital function of processing organic material by feeding on dead plants. Some, however, are parasites that live off the roots of such crops as corn or cotton.
Ants and larger creatures
Likewise there are “bad” and “good” ants. The former build giant, teeming mounds and hills that rise up like sores on the surface of the ground, and some species have the capacity to sting, causing welts on human victims. But a great number of ant species perform a positive function for the environment: like earthworms, they aerate soil and help bring oxygen and organic material from the surface while circulating soils from below.
In some areas, much larger creatures call the soil home. Among these creatures are moles, who live off earthworms and other morsels to be found beneath the surface, including grubs (insect larvae) and the roots of plants. As with ants and earthworms, by burrowing under the ground, they help loosen the soil, making it more porous and thus receptive both to moisture and air. Other large burrowing creatures include mice, ground squirrels, and prairie dogs. They typically live in dry areas, where they perform the valuable function of aerating sandy, gravelly soil.
Soils and Environments
In discussing our imaginary journey through the depths of the soil, it has been necessary to use vague terms concerning depths: “less than a foot,” for instance. The reason is that no solid figures can be given for the depth of the soil in any particular area, unless those figures are obtained by a soil scientist who has studied and measured the soil.
Depth is just one of the ways that the soil may vary from one place to another. Earlier we mentioned five factors that affect the character of the soil: parent material, climate, living organisms, topography, and time. These factors determine all sorts of things about the soil—most of all, its ability to support varied life-forms. Collectively, these five factors constitute the environment in which a soil sample exists.
A desert environment might be one of immature soil, defined as a sample that has only A and C horizons, with no B horizon between them. On the other hand, the soil in rainforests suffers from just the opposite condition: it has gone beyond maturity and reached old age, when plant growth and water percolation have removed most of its nutrients.
Whether in the desert or in the rainforest, soils near the equator tend to be the “oldest,” and this helps explain why few equatorial regions are noted for their agricultural productivity, even though they enjoy otherwise favorable weather for growing crops. Soils there have been leached of nutrients and contain high levels of iron oxides that give them a reddish color. Moreover, red soil is never good for growing crops: the ancient Egyptians referred to the deserts beyond their realm as “the red land,” while their own fertile Nile valley was “the black land” rainforests. If soil is so poor at the equator, why do equatorial regions such as the Congo or the Amazon River valley in Brazil support the dense, lush rain-forest ecosystems for which they are noted? The answer is that the abundance of organic material at the surface of the soil continually replenishes its nutrient content. The rapid rate of decay common in warm, moist regions further supports the process of renewing minerals in the ground.
The burrowing prairie dog helps aerate sandy, gravelly soil in dry areas.
This also explains why the clearing of tropical rainforests, an issue that environmentalists called to the world’s attention in the 1990s, is a serious problem. When the heavy jungle canopy of tall trees is removed, the heat of the sun and the pounding intensity of monsoon rains fall directly on ground that the canopy would normally protect. With the clearing of trees and other vegetation, the animal life that these plants support also disappears, thus removing organisms whose waste products and bodies would have decayed eventually and enriched the soil. Pounded by heat and water and without vegetation to resupply it, the soil in an exposed rainforest becomes hard and dry.
In deserts the soil typically comes from sandstone or shale parent material, and the lack of abundant rainfall, vegetation, or animal life gives the soil little in the way of organic sustenance. For this reason, the A horizon level is very thin and composed of light-colored earth. Then, of course, there are desert areas made up of sand dunes, where conditions are much worse, but even the best that deserts have to offer is not very good for sustaining abundant plant life.
A horizon: Topsoil, the uppermost of the three major soil horizons.
Aerate: To make air available to soil.
Atmosphere: In general, an atmosphere is a blanket of gases surrounding a planet. Unless otherwise identified, however, the term refers to the atmosphere of Earth, which consists of nitrogen (78%), oxygen (21%), argon (0.93%), and other substances that include water vapor, carbon dioxide, ozone, and noble gases such as neon (0.07%).
B horizon: Subsoil, beneath topsoil and above regolith.
Bedrock: The solid rock that lies below the C horizon, the deepest layer of soil.
Biogeochemical cycles: The changes that particular elements undergo as they pass back and forth through the various earth systems and particularly between living and nonliving matter. The elements involved in biogeochemical cycles are hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur.
Biosphere: A combination of all living things on Earth—plants, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, aquatic life, insects, viruses, single-cell organisms, and so on—as well as all formerly living things that have not yet decomposed.
C horizon: Regolith, which lies between subsoil and bedrock and constitutes the bottommost of the soil horizons.
Decomposers: Organisms that obtain their energy from the chemical breakdown of dead organisms as well as from animal and plant waste products. The principal forms of decomposer are bacteria and fungi.
Decomposition reaction: A chemical reaction in which a compound is broken down into simpler compounds or into its constituent elements. In the earth system, this often is achieved through the help of detritivores and decomposers.
Detritivores: Organisms that feed on waste matter, breaking organic material down into inorganic substances that then can become available to the biosphere in the form of nutrients for plants. Their function is similar to that of decomposers, but unlike decomposers—which tend to be bacteria or fungi—detritivores are relatively complex organisms, such as earthworms or maggots.
Ecosystem: A community of interdependent organisms along with the inorganic components of their environment.
Erosion: The movement of soil and rock due to forces produced by water, wind, glaciers, gravity, and other influences. In most cases, a fluid medium, such as air or water, is involved.
Fill dirt: Loose earth that has been moved into place by a backhoe or some other earthmoving machine, usually as part of a large construction project.
Geosphere: The upper part of Earth’s continental crust, or that portion of the solid earth on which human beings live and which provides them with most of their food and natural resources.
Humus: Unincorporated, often partially decomposed plant residue that lies at the top of soil and eventually will decay fully to become part of it.
Hydrosphere: The entirety of Earth’s water, excluding water vapor in the atmosphere but including all oceans, lakes, streams, groundwater, snow, and ice.
Leaching: The removal of soil materials that are in solution, or dissolved in water.
Organic: At one time chemists used the term organic only in reference to living things. Now the word is applied to most compounds containing carbon, with the exception of carbonates (which are minerals), and oxides, such as carbon dioxide.
Parent material: Mineral fragments removed from rocks by means of weathering. Along with organic deposits, these form the basis for soil.
Regolith: A general term describing a layer of weathered material that rests atop bedrock.
Sediment: Material deposited at or near Earth’s surface from a number of sources, most notably preexisting rock. There are three types of sediment: rocks, or clastic sediment; mineral deposits, or chemical sediment; and organic sediment, composed primarily of organic material.
Sedimentary rock: One of the three major types of rock, along with igneous and metamorphic rock. Sedimentary rock typically has its basis in the deposition, compaction, and cementation of rock that has experienced weathering, though it also may be formed as a result of chemical precipitation. Organic sediment also may be a part of sedimentary rock.
Sedimentation: The process of erosion, transport, and deposition undergone by sediment.
Soil horizons: Layers of soil, parallel to the surface of Earth, that have built up over time. They are distinguished from one another by color, consistency, and composition.
Soil profile: A cross-section combining all or most of the soil horizons that lie between Earth’s surface and the bedrock below it.
Topography: The configuration of Earth’s surface, including its relief as well as the position of physical features.
Weathering: The breakdown of rocks and minerals at or near the surface of Earth due to physical, chemical, or biological processes.
Only those species that can endure a limited water supply—for example, the varieties of cactus that grow in the American Southwest—are able to survive. But lack of water is not the only problem.
Desert subsoils often contain heavy deposits of salts, and when rain or irrigation adds water to the topsoil, these salts rise. Thus, watering desert top-soil can make it a worse environment for growth.
In striking contrast to the barren soil of the deserts and the potentially barren soil of the rainforest is the rich earth that lies beneath some of the world’s most fertile crop-producing regions. On the plains of the midwestern United States, Canada, and Russia, the soil is black—always a good sign for growth. Below this rich topsoil is a thick subsoil that helps hold in moisture and nutrients.
The richest variety of soil on Earth is alluvial soil, a youngish sediment of sand, silt, and clay transported by rivers. Large flowing bodies of water, such as the Nile or Mississippi, pull soil along with them as they flow, and with it they bring nutrients from the regions through which they have passed. These nutrients are deposited by the river in the alluvial soil at its delta, the place where it enters a larger body of water—the Mediterranean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, respectively. Hence the delta regions of both rivers are extremely fertile.

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifactAuthor: Taylor Combe. The Trustees of the British Museum make the following statement on the Museum website in response to arguments for the relocation of the Elgin Marbles to the Acropolis Museum: "The Acropolis Museum allows the Parthenon sculptures that are in Athens to be appreciated against the backdrop of ancient Greek and Athenian bowvalleychorus.com: Phidias.
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The Museum’s collection online offers everyone unparalleled access to objects in the collection. This innovative database is one of the earliest and most extensive online museum search platforms in the world. There are currently 2, records available, which represent more than 4, objects.
1, records have one or more images. The British Museum's department of Greece and Rome is one of the biggest collections of Ancient Greek and Roman objects in the world. The objects come from nearly years of European history, from BC all the way to the 4th century AD.
It contains parts of two of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World; the Mausoleum at Halikarnassos and the Temple of Artemis at Ephesos. DETAILS. A scarce edition of Description of the Collection of Ancient Marbles in the British Museum with Engravings Part V as composed by The British Museum Deptartment of Greek and Roman bowvalleychorus.com thirteen engraved plates, the last of which is in colour.
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of Europe’s outstanding museums, the British Museum, in London, in and the Louvre Museum, in Paris, in The British Museum was formed as the result of the government’s acceptance of responsibility to preserve and maintain three collections “not only for the inspection and entertainment of the learned and.
Concentrating on the explorer and naturalist Joseph Banks (), this book explores the early history of collections at the British Museum. Taking Banks' extraordinary career as its basis, it examines the changes that took place during a period of transition that. The study of human remains in the Museum's collection helps advance important research in fields such as archaeology, social anthropology, human biology, the history of disease and genetics.
Today, researchers at the Museum use medical CT scanners to explore the mummies in the Collection. The Elgin Marbles, a collection of stone sculptures and inscriptions more properly known as the Parthenon Sculptures, was acquired by Lord Elgin in Athens, Greece between and and today lives in London's British Museum.
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Cockerell, Edward Hawkins, and Taylor Combe (page images at HathiTrust). The British Museum has marbles from Crete that date to BC. They were found at the Minoan site of Petsofa (personal communication with Lucilla Burn of the British Museum).
In North America engraved marbles have been found in ancient Native American earthen mounds (Britannica). Jun 30, · Collecting Guide: Ancient marbles. The upside of this is that, in the field of ancient marbles, these subjects are seen to be iconic. However it also means that they feature in a large number of collections.
Christian Levett’s collection, at home and in his museum, highlights the influence of classical sculpture on contemporary art. The Elgin Marbles are a source of controversy between modern Britain and bowvalleychorus.com's a collection of stone pieces rescued/removed from the ruins of the Ancient Greek Parthenon in the nineteenth century, and now in demand to be sent back from the British Museum to Greece.
In many ways, the Marbles are emblematic of the development of modern ideas of national heritage and global display, which. Engravings From The Ancient Marbles In The British Museum. and a great selection of related books, A Description of the Collection of Ancient Marbles in the British Museum: With Engravings.
Book-Near Fine, rebound with attractive aqua buckram with grey title plate on front and gilt titles on spine, endpapers replaced. Front free end. British Museum: A book of drawings formerly ascribed to Mantegna, ([London] Printed by order of the Trustees of the British museum, ), also by Campbell Dodgson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) British Museum: The British Museum.
Elgin and Phigaleian marbles. Headless sculpture of the river-god Ilissos from the West pediment of the Parthenon / BCBC / Marble / By Phidias / Classical Greek period / Made in Acropolis of Athens, Attica, Greece / Description: This is a figure of a reclining naked man, thought to be the river-god Ilissos.
The head, left hand, right arm and hand, part of his right leg and left foot are missing. The British Museum is dedicated to human history, art and culture, and is located in the Bloomsbury area of London.
The Museum houses a vast collection of world art and artefacts and is free to all visitors. The British Museum collection today contains over 8 million bowvalleychorus.com 1%, or 80, of these objects are on display at any given time in designated store rooms.
Sep 19, · The museum’s own scholars are assigned critical roles in the important discovery that the objects indeed were of African origin and not the result of external influences. Controversy Reignites as British MPs Propose Finally Returning Ancient Parthenon Marbles to Greece ; Tattooed Maori head returns to New Zealand from British MuseumAuthor: Ancient-Origins.
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Henry Ince Blundell's collection of Roman sculpture is the largest collection of classical sculpture in Britain outside the British Museum. Featuring more than marble and bronze classical sculptures from the ancient world, the collection includes important works of .A title variant appears on the half-title, 'A Description Of Ancient Terracottas'.
Most of the British Museum's collection of ancient terracottas had been assembled by Charles Towneley, who had acquired much of it from the sculptor Nollekens, who had bought a cache of terracottas discovered in a well at Porta Latina in Description.
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It’s hard to believe that ABC’s Lost will have its 10-year anniversary later this year. In 2004, a little TV show about castaways on a deserted island captured the imagination of millions of viewers all around the world. While the series ended its run in 2010, there are still a lot of fans of the series that celebrate Lost as if it were still on the air. The adventures of Jack Shepherd, Kate Austen, and James “Sawyer” Ford, left a lasting impression on everyone who has ever watched the show, and in a few months, the cast of Lost will reunite for the first time in a decade.
According to Deadline, the William S. Paley Television Festival, better known as PaleyFest, will hold one of its biggest gatherings and events to date. Taking place at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood and Highland in Los Angeles, PaleyFest will play host to “Lost: 10th Anniversary Reunion.” While it’s unclear who from the cast will be on hand for the event, it’s believed that fan-favorites Matthew Fox, Evangeline Lilly, Josh Holloway, Jorge Garcia, and Henry Ian Cusick, along with Michael Emerson, will all be in attendance when the reunion takes place on March 16th.
There will be many Lost celebrations for the series 10-year anniversary this year. The show premiered on ABC on September 22, 2004, and saw immediate success based on the strength of its pilot episode, directed by none other than J.J. Abrams, I might add. The LOST 2014: The 10-Year Fan Gathering event will take place later this year in Oahu, Hawaii on Sept. 20-22. The event will include members of the cast and a special two-hour screening of the pilot episode on the beach of Oahu.
Of course, there was a lot of backlash directed towards showrunner Damon Lindelof after its series wrapped up in 2010. While the finale is questionable to many, there are pockets of Lost fandom who feel it was the best possible way to end the show’s six-season run. Even with his new series, HBO’s The Leftovers, Lindelof still can’t escape from criticism of the show’s resolution and its longstanding mysteries. Anything he attaches his name to will always be viewed with serious skepticism, albeit somewhat unfairly, all because of the series finale.
Along with Lost’s special 10-year reunion at this year’s PaleyFest features a so-long session for CBS’ How I Met Your Mother, Netflix participation with Orange Is The New Black, and an opening-night event featuring the Veronica Mars Kickstarter-funded movie. Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., AMC’s Mad Men, and NBC comedies Parks & Recreation and Community will also be showcased during the two-week long television and media celebration event.
Over the years, Lost has been one of my favorite TV shows. It fell out of favor with me because of its last two seasons, but it’s still top-notch science fiction entertainment. Sure, the show lost its way from time to time (Nikki and Paulo, Jack’s tattoo episode), but that shouldn’t take away from the good things and enjoyment Lost brought to the table.

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Energy storage financial investment to come close to $10bn in 2025
- Expert IHS Markit has anticipated storage space will certainly rebound this year following its very first year-on-year decline in 2019. The modern technology is being rolled out at speed despite Covid-19 with state-level plans readied to maintain the US the worldwide capital for the next five years.
When pv magazine was pulling together its end-of-year round-up of the most prominent stories of 2019, there was a lot of evidence energy storage space was lastly readied to mature this year-- in addition to dissenting voices pointing out the 'jam tomorrow' nature of what has actually come to be a repeating yearly forecast.
With battery storage space particularly blooming across the U.S. in recent weeks, expert IHS Markit-- which was among the doom-mongers as recently as a coronavirus-ravaged March-- has now signed up with the carolers of voices anticipating the modern technology which is so essential to the fostering of intermittent renewable resource has finally improved.
The London-based forecaster has actually forecasted storage implementation will strike 15.1 GW/47.8 GWh in 2025 and sees financial investment readied to grow from an anticipated $4.2 billion this year to $9.5 billion in five years time'-- no mean accomplishment provided IHS has forecasted battery module rates will drop 32% over the very same duration.
That dropping battery price is one of the factors cited for the excellent development of storage implementation already being seen in the U.S. IHS Markit's Energy Storage Service today anticipated the States will certainly stay the world's number one market for the technology for the next five years, aided by a multitude of ambitious state-level policies and an excellent project pipe driven by the Investment Tax Credit.
Although the press launch provided by IHS to advertise its predictions stressed exactly how well energy storage is weathering the Covid-19 storm-- and, by implication, just how much more storage could be released in less exceptional times-- it made no reference of the fact 2020 is a political election year worldwide's grid range battery funding. It is alluring to guess what type of volumes of storage could be turned out across the U.S. in the event a much more environmentally conscious head of state were to get in the Oval Office.
China will certainly be the second energy storage market to 2025, according to IHS, which expects 6.5 GW of systems to have been established by that point as the nation aims to even out energy supply from a climbing trend of renewables generation properties.
As well as there are urging check in other markets, said the expert today, with an ability auction in France set to drive 253 MW of storage capacity as much as 2023 and grid range pipelines set to increasingly take advantage of the stability of merchant storage in the U.K. as well as Australia, thanks to the spread of wholesale energy prices between height and also off-peak hours.
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Stress and addiction are closely linked together. In fact, stress is one of the key factors(1) of addiction initiation, maintenance, relapse and treatment failure, according to Psychology Today. It is important to differentiate between chronic stress and normal stress. Normal stress can be healthy and even seen as pleasant. However, chronic stress can have harmful effects on your physical and mental health.(2) One of the biggest sources of chronic stress is in the workplace. As a result, chronic stress can cause employees to turn to unhealthy coping mechanisms such as drugs and alcohol.(3) Luckily, self-care can help you cope with this stress in a healthy way.
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Taking time away to take care of yourself provides you with a way to recharge your batteries. After a long, hard day at work, coming home and taking a relaxing bath can be akin to hitting the reset button. This makes you able to withstand everyday stressors better and enables you to stay focused and more productive when you are working.
But, now that you know the benefits of self-care, how can you actually implement it in your everyday life?
Sleep is important for our mental and physical health, but it is very often overlooked. According to ResMed, sleep helps you heal damaged cells, boost your immune system, and recharge your heart and cardiovascular system for the next day.(5) On top of these physical benefits though, getting the correct amount of sleep also has tons of mental health benefits. No one feels 100 percent when they haven’t had enough sleep.
Sleep deprivation can prevent you from focusing, make your irritable, and cause you to crave unhealthy foods. It is hard to deal with even basic, everyday stress when you haven’t had a good night’s sleep. To help you get the sleep you need, it is important to have a set sleep routine and schedule. While it might seem like you can get more work done if you stay up, it is generally a much better idea to get the sleep you need and come back to your work later.
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Taking a break can be helpful when you’re feeling stressed or overwhelmed. No one can concentrate on one task for long, especially if it isn’t a task that is fun or exhilarating. So, instead of trying to focus on a task for longer than you could do accurately, take regular breaks. This can help you stay focused while you do work and decrease the amount of stress you’re under, especially at work. We recommend taking at least one break an hour and possibly even more if the task you’re doing is particularly difficult.
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Self-care can do wonders for your mental health and can prevent relapse. By preparing your body to handle stress well, you can keep your outlook positive and handle whatever the world throws at you.
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The Berlin Police in Germany are officially getting a new service pistol.
A spokeswoman for the department has confirmed to German publication SEK Einsatz that its officers will be armed with the Heckler & Koch SFP9 TR. The pistol replaces the Sig Sauer P6 as the standard duty gun for the Berlin Police.
The HK SFP9 TR, sold as the VP9 in the United States, is a 9mm striker-fired pistol with a 15-round magazine capacity. The “TR” variant was built to German “Technische Richtlinie” (Technical Guidelines) for police use, which stipulate that the gun must have a trigger pull of greater than or equal to 30 to 35 N (6.7-7.9 lbs). An “SF” version of the SFP9 has a lighter trigger pull. Check out the description of the gun via HK’s website below:
“The modern SFP9 Striker Fired Pistol is a fully pre-cocked system with single-action trigger in calibre 9 mm x 19. The pistol’s standard features include unique characteristics and innovative details. Patented charging supports at the rear of the slide simplify and assist charging without injury. The disassembly process requires no tools and guides the user through a mandatory course of action, offering maximum safety to prevent accidents. The weapon cannot be disassembled unless the magazine has been removed. Unlike comparable models of pistols, the weapon automatically de-cocks itself when disassembled. In addition, the trigger need not be pulled before disassembly. The magazine and ergonomics concept of the P30 were transferred to the new series of pistols. Not only does the SFP9 use P30 magazines, it also features interchangeable back straps and grip shells to provide a total of 27 individual grip shape combinations. Its excellent trigger characteristics promote maximum accuracy during rapid fire sequences. It is based on a well-balanced relationship between hand position, light trigger pull and short trigger travel and reset.”
According to SEK Einsatz, the contract calls for 24,000 new pistols to be delivered to Berlin Police. The first part of the delivery will take place in January 2018. They’ll be delivered subsequently at a rate of 2,000 units per month. In addition to that, the department is also getting 450 HK SFP9 SK pistols, which is a subcompact version of the gun.


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The fresh murmur of running water as it forged its way through the contours of the land in a quiet yet purposeful manner, feathered wings beating unperturbed through the heavy air, a distant fire crackling as it churned out warmth and vibrancy, foliage reverberating underfoot as twig cracked and soil displaced. These elements were proof of a never-ending eb and flow, of an existence that was neither judgmental nor affirming, and it, lay snugly and pertinently in the midst of its surrounds.
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As time ran on and the days ran short, the ground began to consume it. The traces of its inhabitant were gently cleansed by damp air and the roughness of the earth as it sifted, occasionally distorted by an animal, which continued with its activities with all of the purpose it could muster and yet, contrarily, with no purpose at all. Eventually, it was hardly recognisable as its original construct, as it had been separated into a collection of raw materials, which in themselves were undistinguished.
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Marc Maron in talks to join Joaquin Phoenix's Joker
The film is reportedly based on the graphic novel, The Killing Joke
Actor Marc Maron, best known for his starring role in the Netflix series Glow, is in talks to join the cast of Warner Bros' The Joker. While details are sketchy, the film is expected to feature Joaquin Phoenix as the titular character and explore the origin story of one of the most iconic DC supervillains and the arch-nemesis of Batman.
Maron will add to a supporting cast that already includes Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz and Frances Conroy. The origin story, reportedly based on the graphic novel, The Killing Joke, will be directed by Todd Phillips who has co-written the script with Scott Silver. It is described by the studio as an 'exploration of a man disregarded by society that is not only a gritty character study but also a broader cautionary tale'.
While the shooting is set to begin in September in New York, the film is scheduled for release on October 4, 2019.


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MY BIRD BUBBA, HE;S A COCKATIEL, REALLY LIKED THIS TOY, HE;S PLAYS AND PLAYS WITH IT. IT;S FUNNY, WHEN IT DOESN;T GO HIS WAY, HE GETS MAD AT IT, HE;S SO COMICAL WITH IT. BUT IT IS HIS FAVORITE.
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Rated 5 out of 5 by Ivet My parakete loves the small ropes on this piece.
He loves to separate the ropes with his beak! So cute!
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Rated 5 out of 5 by MMNYC Lots Of Fun
My cockatiel loves this toy. It's made of all natural materials, is very durable and long lasting, and inexpensive.
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All my birds, parakeets and a cockatiel, enjoy this toy. They like to manipulate the small wooden beads and enjoy 'preening' the cotton fringe; it seems to satisfy their urge to chew. Very nice toy and a good value!
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Clabby filling station and convenience store acquired with Ulster Bank support
A convenience store and filling station in County Fermanagh has been acquired by the owners of a local fuel delivery enterprise with the support of Ulster Bank, helping to expand the family business portfolio and secure the future of its third generation of entrepreneur.
Clabby filling station, the family-owned service station in Clabby, Co. Fermanagh, is under new ownership following a six-figure investment supported by Ulster Bank.
The established business has been acquired by the owners of Robinson Fuels, the fuel distributor first launched in 2010 to supply the Fermanagh and Tyrone areas with home heating oil and agricultural fuels.
Ulster Bank business development manager Peter O’Hara says the acquisition will secure an important asset for the area.
“Supporting and nurturing this kind of commercial investment opportunity is an important part of how we work to serve the communities we operate in. Businesses such as Clabby filling station are the beating heart of rural communities. They add value and provide an important lifeline to vital goods and services. We’re confident that the business will continue to deliver positive impact under its new management and we’re pleased to provide funding that has secured jobs and services now and into the future.”
When the service station went on the market last year, its new owners, Andrea and Nigel Robinson, said it presented a unique opportunity to expand the family business portfolio.
“It’s a great addition and there’s real synergy between the two businesses given our decade plus experience in agricultural and home heating fuels,” Nigel says.
“We’re able to apply that experience to the forecourt and utilise our industry knowledge to bring petrol, diesel and, eventually, home heating oil to the service station at the same competitive rates we offer through Robinson Fuels.”
Andrea says: “This is a very rural community and a lot of locals rely on this service, so we’re pleased to continue delivering for the area and we have plans to build upon this initial investment with new offerings and refurbishment.”
Independently owned under the Nearby convenience store format, Clabby filling station offers a range of products and services, including a hot food deli, locally sourced fresh produce and an integrated post office service. It operates three active fuels pumps with plans to add a fourth for home heating oil.
Andrea and Nigel’s son, Adam, an A Level student, is undertaking study with the view to taking over the reins of the new venture.
“Adam is a real asset. He was employed here by the previous owners and has an understanding of the needs of the business and the community. He’s shown great appetite to take on more duties and is hoping to study business management after his A Levels,” Andrea says.
“His grandfather and uncles all owned and managed convenience businesses in the Fermanagh area, so he’s eager to continue the family’s entrepreneurial legacy.”


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PUBG Mobile the most popular game among youngsters as well as in kids, working regularly to be interested every time. They are brought a lot of updates in the past. Now PUBG Mobile is planning another update which is version 0.14.5. The new update of PUBG Mobile is coming with a lot of new items and the new Royale Pass Season 9. The current Royale Pass Season 8 is going to end around 12 September. We got the information about the new weapons, vehicles, skins, and features.
New gun: MP5K SMG
The update may bring a new gun MP5K, which is a sub-machine gun and works with 9mm bullets. The new MP5K will be a replacement for the existing gun vector. MP5K will be an exclusive item in the Vikendi map. The firing mechanicks of MP5K will remain the same as a vector. MP5K will be loaded with 30 bullets by default and can be extendet up to 40 by using an extended magazine. Hence, the MP5K is already available in the PC version of PUBG, now it’s coming to PUBG Mobile.
Finally, we will be able to see the canted sight in the update 0.14.5 of PUBG Mobile. Canted sight is a special sight accessory which will help the user a lot. Using a canted sight, the users will be able to use two scopes at the same time. E.g you can use a 4x scope and a red dot sight at the same time on the same gun. So users can easily switch between 4x and the red dot sight. The gun should be supported for scopes to use a canted sight.
The new vehicle which is coming with the September update of PUBG Mobile is Zima. Zima is an SUV and this is a replacement for present UAZs that was available on Vikendi. UAZs won’t have proper control in Vikendi because of snow so finally, it’s going to replace with new Zima. it’s a little bit slow as compare to UAZs but can be controlled properly while combat.
The current motorcycle on the Vikendi map is now going to replace with the new vehicle called Snowbike. This looks like a motorcycle but it has sliders on the place of wheels. So it can run faster on the snow. But there is a loose point also, it can be destroyed easily by firing on it.
New Survival Mode
The new update may bring a new survival mode in which players have to hunt and build fires not to freeze. It is not necessary that the new survival mode will come to this update but there is a lot of chance of this, but it may not happen anyway.
The new royale pass season 9 will also come with this update because the current royale pass season 8 is going to end on 12 September. Season 9 will bring a lot of new skins for guns, parasuit, outfits and much more.
“The new update 14.0.5 of PUBG Mobile may come with a lot of changes and new items. But most of the new things are around the Vikendi map, this is why because Vikendi map was in beta till now, but now it’s coming official to PUBG Mobile.”


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The U.S. Forest Service has moved the Christmas tree permit sales to Recreation.gov this year. 2020 has been somewhat thrown for a loop by Warden Newsom and the draconian fake laws he has enacted in response to the mediademic surrounding Covid-19.
At last count, there were eight states that participate in the National Christmas Tree Program and sell permits that allow residents to cut their own tree. In California, specifically, there are several national forests that issue Christmas Tree permits. From the Men’s Journal: Retailers will tell you that the holiday season begins on Thanksgiving, but […]
Beginning today, Christmas tree permits will be available from the Mendocino National Forest for the 2013 holiday season. Permits are available for purchase in person or by mail from Mendocino National Forest offices, as well as at area vendors. Vendors are listed below with contact information for the Forest Service. Permits are $10 per tree […]


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Five students at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff were arrested last Thursday and were accused of breaking into a dorm room, beating one of the occupants, and taking a laptop computer.
Campus police arrested Tamir Buchanan, 19; Awdnell Gordon, 21; Jonathan Presswood, 20; Justin Gatlin, 19; and Christopher Mitchem, 22, after they were called to Johnson Hall at 2 a.m.
According to the police report, one of the alleged victims told officers that one of the suspects, later identified as Presswood, had run into another room and he was located there.
Also according to the police report, a review of the video surveillance tape from the dorm showed Presswood and others in what the police report described as “a coordinated effort” before a cover was placed over the camera lens.
University Police arrested the other suspects after watching the video.
At the time of the incident, Presswood was out on bond after being arrested and accused of the rape of another student earlier this month.
On Friday, Pine Bluff District Judge John Kearney ruled that prosecutors had probable cause to charge all five men with burglary and robbery.
Kearney set bond at $25,000 each for Buchanan, Gordon, Gatlin and Mitchem and $100,000 for Presswood.


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Sous les étoiles, by Hubert Poirot-Bourdain
“Very far above your head, there are stars. Under the stars, there are satellites. In the satellites, there are rockets…” The book takes you on a vertiginous space voyage from down below… to down under! The books does double duty by travelling to the other side of earth, and in two languages, French and Japanese (or other languages from two sides of the planet).
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zIndexing in Bing Maps V8
In past versions of Bing Maps, the map control consisted of thousands of DOM elements, primarily images and SVGs. zIndexing in these controls was easy as they simpy used CSS zIndexing which is built into the browser. However, using DOM elements to create interactive maps greatly limits the amount of data that can be rendered on the map.
The Bing Maps V8 renders the maps using HTML5 canvases. This provides the ability to render large datasets on the map quickly, but doesn’t have any built in zIndexing logic. The Bing Maps team has exposed the ability to set the zIndexing of many layers including tile, clustering, data binning, and contour layers as well as the Layer class. zIndexing is achieved by sorting the data based on its assigned zIndex and then drawing it onto the canvas from lowest zIndex value to highest. Using this zIndexing framework it is possible to insert layers between the many built in layers such as the traffic layer, which wasn’t possible in the past. However, for performance reasons, zIndexing is only available for layers and not individual shapes.
The following diagram provides an overview of the different layers and their default zIndexes within the Bing Maps V8 control.
The Bing Maps V8 control has two main HTML5 canvases. The first is the base map canvas which is used to render the base road and aerial maps, along with many other data sets that you normally prefer to have rendered below the map labels. The second canvas is used to render the vector map labels. Pushpins are also rendered on the same canvas as the vector labels and uses collision detection to hide and move labels so that they do not get overlapped by pushpins. It is possible to use zIndexing to move layers around within these two canvases, but not between them. For example, pushpins can’t be rendered below polygons. Besides these two main canvases, there are a few other high level layers which are used to power features such as a separate canvas for heat maps and animated tile layers. Custom Overlays also allow you to insert DOM elements, including additional HTML5 canvases, for creating custom renderings within the map. Custom overlays are the only feature which can be rendered above and below the vector label layer. Its important to note that the heatmap, animated tile layers and custom overlays cannot be rendered within the base map canvas, only above it. You could set its zIndex to below the base canvas, but then you wouldn’t see it.

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From the million-copy bestseller Amanda Prowse, the queen of heartbreak fiction.
Amanda Prowse is the author of The Coordinates Of Loss and the no.1 bestsellers Perfect Daughter, My Husband's Wife and What Have I Done?
I deserve all this because I did the worst thing a woman can do. The very worst.
Jessica's wedding was like a fairytale. Her dress strewn with crystals. Her dad made a tearful speech. Her husband Matthew declared himself the luckiest man alive.
But when their beautiful baby girl is born, Jessica is gripped by panic. She can't tell anyone how she feels. Even when her life starts to spiral out of control...
This is her story. A mother's story.
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Beadnell in Nothumberland lies directly on the north east coast, providing stunning sea views and interesting wildlife. It offers a fine choice of coastal cottages to rent to visitors all year round. There are many coastal walks to be had either along the headland, up on the cliffs looking out to sea, or along the magnificent long beaches. During the summer months, sailing is the most popular water sport in this small, cosy town. In the season the sailing club opens up and many events are put on – either take part or watch the locals venture out on the water.
Bar Harbour is a spacious coastal cottage with a generous lawned garden and contemporary open-plan spaces, just moments from the beach in Beadnell, Northumberland. The pet-friendly cottage enjoys natural light & offers an enclosed garden with a furnished area, plus the chance to enjoy a sea bree...
View this traditional coastal cottage in Northumberland, Lyndhurst Cottage is a stone built semi-detached property, a relaxing and easy going Northern getaway enjoying the best of the Northumberland Coast and countryside a short stroll to the harbor and beach at Beadnell Bay.
Located in a quiet cul-de-sac at the edge of the tourist town of Beadnell, Northumberland, Bay View is a first-floor apartment that makes the perfect holiday home base in the North East, a coastal cottage with an outdoor wood-decked balcony overlooking sandy beaches and the North Sea.
Scuba diving is also becoming popular on this stretch of the coast as well. Inland, it’s only a short drive to the Cheviot Hills which will appeal to walkers. This stretch of the coast is also popular with bird watchers offering birdwatching tours for people who don’t consider themselves birdwatchers. Throughout the town there are many family friendly pubs and bars such as The Sea Breeze which presents a real sense of community and warmth. Beadnell lies within easy reach of other delightful places to visit such as Bamburgh Castle, Holy Island, Alnwick and Berwick on Tweed on the Scottish border.


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Although overall month-over-month totals were down, production rates set all-time high marks for oil and natural gas in February in North Dakota, state officials reported Tuesday.
A footnote to the most recent monthly report detailing February performance also cited the fact the natural gas production is increasing at a faster rate than oil, according to state officials Even with the continuing low prices, gas production increased 7.4%, compared with a 5.6% jump for oil.
Production rates and producing wells were at record levels. “The number of completions [of wells] is well above the threshold needed to maintain production as the oil production rate rose sharply — up 5.6% from January,” said Lynn Helms, director of North Dakota’s Department of Mineral Resources (DMR).
Helms reiterated that nearly all (95%) of the drilling in his state targets the Bakken and Three Forks shale formations.
Total production of oil and gas was down in February with the three fewer days (21.8 million bbl and 23.8 Bcf compared to 22.8 million bbl and 24.5 Bcf totals in January). But production rates set all-time highs of 778,971 b/d for oil and 850 MMcf/d of gas.
Producing wells also reached an all-time high in February at 8,492, compared to 8,342 in January.
Helms called February weather “more normal” with no major storms or extreme temperatures and wind chills, which can adversely impact production. “Even though the drilling rig count dropped slightly, the number of well completions doubled to 170,” he said.
On a webcast Tuesday, Helms said the recent storms last month and Monday will keep road restrictions in effective throughout the state until early May, so he doesn’t expect the state to return to full production until probably June.
He said drilling permit totals for March returned to more “normal” levels, hitting 218 for the month, equalling January and well above February levels when only 185 permits were issued.
“We have a sufficient permit inventory to accommodate multi-well pads,” said Helms, along with accommodating other factors such as “the inability to construct in locations during load restrictions and the time required to publish hydraulic fracturing rules if required.”
On the gas side, the higher production growth rates are consistent with an analyst study that shows gas/oil ratios increasing as wells age,” said Helms, adding that nevertheless shallow gas exploration continues to be uneconomic at near-term gas prices.
Natural gas delivered to the Northern Borders pipeline at Watford City was up to $3.69/Mcf, the February statistics show. While national storage figures indicate prices have “bottomed out,” low prices are still expected for the foreseeable future, Helms said.
Helms said that construction of processing plants and gathering systems were at a “virtual standstill until after the spring thaw.” Additions to processing and gathering capacities “are not keeping up, and as a result the amount of gas flared exceeded 30% again, hitting 30.4%. The historical high is 36% in September 2011.
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