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The sea ice conditions have changed drastically in the past week. The sea ice is now too fragile and slushy for us to go sample there safely, leaving helicopter trips to the ice edge as our only opportunity to collect samples of ice, water, and microorganisms. Unfortunately, these trips have been few and far between because of changing weather conditions and demand on helicopter time. I haven’t had the chance to fly out yet, and my trip is third on the current list, so it may be that there won’t be enough time to make it happen. We’ll see!
Instead of sampling in the field, we’ve devoted much time this past week to analyzing what we’ve collected, using the capabilities of the Crary science lab, a “university lab on the ice”. Indeed, walking around Crary feels just like being inside a science building on a university campus. Three rooms and the entire aquarium are dedicated to the projects of our group. In the aquarium, a few of us have set up an experiment to pin down the causes of a weird shift in the populations of microorganisms that dominate the subglacial waters of Mc Murdo Sound. The balance of power is disputed between diatoms, tiny organisms with shells made of glass, and colonies of algae called Phaeocystis. This year, the Phaeocystis have taken over. Why is that? What decides who wins? We’re thinking that there could be reasons linked to (1) the physics and chemistry of the environment (how much light these species get, how warm or salty the water is, etc.), or (2) interactions among microbial species (presence or absence of bacteria either helpful or harmful to the Phaeocystis algae).
To find out about the influence of environmental conditions, we’ve measured the temperature, salinity, and light levels in the water at different places and times. That required lowering probes through holes in the ice on a rope down tens of meters, then hauling them back up. We’ve also taken samples of water at different depths by lowering an open Niskin bottle with a switch that closes it. The switch gets tripped by a “messenger”, a weight tied to the rope that we let fall down once the bottle is at the desired depth. We can then bring the water back to the lab to analyze its chemical and biological composition. We have yet to finish many of these analyses, but so far one interesting measurement has been that of light, which gets absorbed much more strongly in shallow waters than in deep waters. We think that’s because the shallow waters are full of algae capturing sunlight for photosynthesis. In deep water, there is not enough light and the algae can’t live there, so the water is more transparent.
To understand the biological relationships between algae and bacteria, we’ve set up that experiment in the aquarium. We’ve put Phaeocystis algae in bags full of seawater under three conditions: without many of the bacteria (killed using antibiotics), without the bacteria but with vitamin B12, and as is (control). This should help us understand if the bacteria are helpful to the algae (those bacteria are a natural source of vitamin B12), or harmful, or have no influence. If the bacteria are helpful, we should expect less algae in the antibiotic bag than in the others (control and antibiotic+B12), because the algae are deprived of bacterial B12. If the bacteria are harmful, we’d expect less algae in the control, in which the bacteria haven’t been killed by the antibiotics. If the bacteria have no influence, the three treatments should give the same results, in which case the answer to the diatom-Phaeocystis power struggle may lie in the environmental conditions instead. We hope to have an answer by next week!
We’ve turned our attention away from the sea ice for fun as well. Last night, two of us hiked up and skied down a trail leading inland toward Mt. Erebus. This trail took us near Castle Rock, a prominent local landmark that we could have climbed, but didn’t this time as it got late and cold. A good reason to go back… The return path faced the glorious and eerie Trans-Antarctic range backlit by the midnight sun. On the horizon to the north, we could see the orange glow of the oblique sunlight hitting iceberg cliffs contrasting with the deep blue ocean. Not a soul miles around (thousands of miles even, if it weren’t for the nearby stations). Just magical!

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In Transcarpathia, 55 households are flooded
On the night of 2 to 3 February, due to rain and melted snow in low-lying areas of Transcarpathia wastewater partially flooded 55 households and 10 hectares of farmland. This, with reference to the State Emergencies Service of Ukraine, was reported by the KP.
The residents of Uzhgorod were affected the most: households on Hvardiyska, Hranitna, Pankevych, Silvay, Uchytelska streets are flooded; in Irshava district - 10 households and 10 hectares of farmland in the village of Kamianske (on Tsentralna street) are flooded; in Mukachevo district - 3 households in the village of Klynovets (on Koryatovich street) are flooded. Residential houses are not flooded.
35 people and 10 vehicles are involved to divert water from the houses.
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Ask individuals what you may discover buried in the muck at the backside of New York Metropolis’s East River and so they’d possible say “mob boss” earlier than pondering of mammoth bones.
However a number of teams of treasure hunters have taken to the waterway in latest weeks after listening to a visitor on comic Joe Rogan’s podcast declare a boxcar’s value of probably precious prehistoric mammoth bones was dumped in the river in the Forties.
Regardless of an absence of proof to again up the story, treasure seekers utilizing boats, diving apparatuses and know-how like remote-operated cameras have gone looking, in hopes the murky waters are hiding woolly mammoth tusks.
“I think the chances are just as good as the lottery. And people buy those tickets every day,” stated Don Gann, 35, of North Arlington, New Jersey, a industrial diver who’s been out on the water since early final week together with his brother and two employees.
It began when John Reeves, an Alaskan gold miner with a ardour for fossils, got here onto “The Joe Rogan Experience” for an episode that aired Dec. 30 to speak about his land, the place he has personally uncovered quite a few age-old bones and tusks. In the first half of the twentieth century, below earlier possession, digging for gold unearthed a trove of prehistoric mammal stays.
A few of that materials was dropped at New York Metropolis many years in the past to be handed over to the American Museum of Pure Historical past. Reeves cited a draft of a report put collectively by three males, together with one who labored at the museum, that included a reference to some fossils and bones deemed unsuitable for the museum being dumped into the river.
“I’m going to start a bone rush,” Reeves advised Rogan, earlier than studying from the draft and giving out a location: East River Drive, which is now referred to as the FDR Drive, at round sixty fifth Avenue.
“We’ll see if anybody out there’s got a sense of adventure,” he stated, later including, “Let me tell you something about mammoth bones, mammoth tusks – they’re extremely valuable.”
After the episode aired, the American Museum of Pure Historical past threw water as chilly as the East River on the story.
“We do not have any record of the disposal of these fossils in the East River, nor have we been able to find any record of this report in the museum’s archives or other scientific sources,” it stated in a press release.
When reached by The Related Press through phone, Reeves refused to speak and as a substitute advised a reporter to learn the pages of the draft he had posted on social media earlier than hanging up. He didn’t reply different calls and emails.
The pages posted on social media establish three males as the authors: Richard Osborne, an anthropologist; Robert Evander, who previously labored in the American Museum of Pure Historical past’s paleontology division; and Robert Sattler, an archeologist with a consortium of Alaska Native tribes.
Reached by The Related Press, Sattler stated the story about the dumped bones got here from Osborne, who died in 2005.
The doc cited by Reeves was actual, he stated, and written in the mid-Nineties. Nevertheless it wasn’t one thing supposed for an educational journal. It was a place to begin for one thing — possibly a ebook — primarily based on Osborne’s information of a interval in Alaska when mammoth stays had been being found in a lot. Osborne’s father labored at an organization concerned in the digging.
Sattler stated Osborne hung out round the operation as a younger man and doubtless heard the story about surplus bones being dumped in the river secondhand. Sattler stated he didn’t have any specifics past Osborne’s recollections.
“He would have had some knowledge from somebody telling him that they dumped some excess material in the East River,” he stated.
Mammoth stays found in Alaska did wind up at the American Museum of Pure Historical past, together with some still on display today.
The part of the Manhattan shoreline the place Reeves claimed the bones had been dumped underwent main modifications in the Nineteen Thirties and Forties, as the East River Drive, later renamed for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, was constructed on fill and pilings. The freeway opened absolutely to drivers in 1942, elevating questions on how somebody would have dumped an enormous trove of bones with out disrupting site visitors.
Gann stated he’s seen about two dozen different units of fossil hunters in the time he’s spent looking for mammoth stays out on the East River.
Visibility in the East River is extraordinarily poor, he stated. On a very good day, you’ll be able to see possibly a foot in entrance of you. The present at the backside is powerful.
However the avid diver, who appeared in Discovery’s “Sewer Divers,” has a factor for seeking out uncommon finds — though mammoth bones are admittedly on a distinct scale than discovering a Paul Revere spoon at an property sale.
“I’ve hunted for weird artifacts my entire life, so this one, it just kind of fits into my repertoire,” Gann stated.
He and his crew haven’t discovered something, which he admits is disappointing, but it surely has spurred him to do a few of his personal digging into historical past. He’s switched his sights to a location off of the southern a part of Brooklyn, saying it will have been a extra possible website for cargo to be dumped than the East River off Manhattan.
“If I find nothing, then I find nothing. I gave it an honest shot,” Gann stated.

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Twenty-six years after he first encountered the disused bus garage that would become Ministry Of Sound, Justin Berkmann has seen the label his club had spawned swallowed up by Sony Music.
Founder Berkmann still remembers entering the cavernous South London space for the first time and finding its every surface caked in pigeon droppings. He has seen extensive change since that hot 1990 summer, but none as big as what transpired in August this year.
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1.2 The Cajun Prayer
It was cold, and there was that pine dampness to contend with. I was glad that our guests were too stunned for words. I didn’t like talking while I worked.
Having carried the logs from the basement to the hearth I proceeded to light them.
“Don’t you boys have central heating?”
“It ain’t enough on a night like this,” Sam answered for me knowing my disdain for conversation during activity.
Luckadoo’s lodge was large. We sat in one of the most impressive rooms. The ceiling stretched twenty feet overhead. Five feet above the Buck’s head above the fireplace. There were the obligatory fox hunt paintings and animal skins about. Bespeaking the English pretensions of the moneyed classes of the region. Though, come to think of it Luckadoo actually was a Limey.
With the aid of a bit of kerosene, a roaring flame brought a humanizing cheer to the somber masculine poshness of the room. Our guests were sat in great mahogany leather chairs, while we occupied an assortment of beanbags and lazyboy’s that we’d brought to keep the antique, haunted vibe of the place from overwhelming us.
I reached under my seat and produced a flask.
“Jesus,” Officer Fabre chuckled. “A flask for every occasion? How many of them things do you got?”
“You’d better be glad he has those. You should see him au natural. Patience was never a virtue for Alan Baird.”
I always felt that people overstated the ‘problem’ with my temper. I simply had no use for the excesses and liberties most people thought normal. Generally, I’d let them know nicely, the first time.
“Oh, come on now, I’m a regular sweetheart,” I protested. “In fact, how about I get everyone a round.”
“A round of what?” The Doctor inquired.
“A round you’ll like,” I said rising to my feet and making my way towards the kitchen.
“Alan never disappoints in spiritual matters.” I heard Lucas say with a chuckle as I rounded the corner.
Almost immediately the voices of guests and companions alike were muted. Replaced by an eerie sort of silence broken only by the muffled cry of a nearby owl. The place was a nightmare from a security standpoint.
A coked up sorority with air horns for shoes wouldn’t be any less stealthy than a SEAL team. The stolid nature of the log and stone made the transmission of sound a near impossibility. It was preternaturally quiet. Like being in a well-appointed sensory deprivation chamber.
It got unnerving from time to time. Which is why I was glad for our motion sensors. But the two boffins we’d taken on board had forced me to minimize its use or risk another round of false alarms. I really wished that they weren’t high all the time. But I suppose that was part of the project.
Yeah, I’d bet we’d have caught our French friend if I hadn’t dispensed with arming the thing. Though I’m glad we hadn’t. This present situation was far less awkward than having to phone Langley. I might still have to make the report.
Despite the size of the kitchen it was as cluttered as the comically tiny one in the apartment I’d grown up in. None of us had the time or inclination to do much dish-washing. I really didn’t mind mess except that mess made it hard to know if something had been tampered with.
As I turned on the light and saw a few woodland roaches scatter over greasy pans I couldn’t help but feel that something was off.
I shrugged away the sensation as I stepped behind my minibar. I wasn’t an expert mixologist. I really didn’t care for overzealous bartending. A mint leaf here, a dash of vodka there, a good ice ratio… Really all the magic you need, provided that you were serving up the good stuff.
After pausing for a moment I headed to the fridge. A couple of beers or so would probably be welcome.
As I carried the tray out the door I could have sworn I heard footsteps. I paused to listen. It was probably my imagination.
As I headed towards the parlor I heard the unmistakable sound of falling silverware. I continued on my way as if I hadn’t noticed.
My friends were chatting merrily amongst themselves as I set the tray on a round oak table beneath a Tiffany lamp.
“Ach!” I said in as loud a voice as naturalness would allow, “Ach! I forgot the chasers!”
“Oh, don’t worry about it, that looks fine enough.” The doctor offered.
I shook my head and tapped Lucas thrice on the shoulder. He rose and produced something from behind a bookshelf.
Our guests picked up the funky vibe.
“Act natural,” I mouthed.
“Yeah, I always forget the damned chasers,” I said loudly as the conversation around me recommenced. “Hey, Lucas come help me carry the damned things. That’s the trouble I tell ya…”
As we approached the kitchen I switched to a no less enthusiastic but somewhat more subdued volume. “Yeah, how did you like that plum stuff from Serbia?”
“Was alright,” Lucas said just as we reached the door.
“Here try a shot of this before I put it back,” I announced. Pausing to listen.
I didn’t have to listen very long, for the sound of someone trying to open the kitchen door that led outside. A kitchen door with no keyhole controlled from a keypad in the hall.
Lucas handed me a small dark green cylinder. I removed the pin, and ever so lightly rolled it in the direction of the kitchen’s sole egress.
We moved away. As far away as we could. But not so far that we couldn’t hear coughing and swearing.

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Drought exacerbated by El Nino pushes already-poor communities in Papua New Guinea to edge of starvation.
Several Australian police officers returned from the Pacific with Zika virus.
Government hopes the US and Pacific nations can come to an agreement on fishing rights.
Two storms with the potential to become formidable cyclones menace the Pacific, and NZ.
Internet access in the Pacific is expensive and limited, but with NZ's help that may change.
NZ considers boosting aid to Tonga to help the island battle the spread of the Zika virus.
An undersea 6.3 magnitude quake hit southwest of Bougainville early on Tuesday morning.
Five cases of the mosquito-borne illness have been confirmed in the South Pacific island-nation.
They don't have laser beams attached to their heads, but these sharks are living in an active volcano.
Children from Australia's Nauru detention centre amongst most traumatised specialists had ever seen.
The highly traumatised five-year-old boy's future looks bleak.
Court decision means about 250 asylum seekers, including 37 babies, face return to Nauru.
Pregnant New Zealand women should rethink travel and you should reach for the repellent.
A fire that ripped through Apia's flea market is estimated to have destroyed $1.2 million in stock.
The fire quickly engulfed the flea market in the centre of Samoa's capital.
Heavy rains and winds of up to 90kmh are expected to lash the northern Cook Islands as Cylone Victor approaches.
Places set aside in NZ for Syrian refugees stuck in Australian detention centres aren't being taken up.
Cyclone Ula is tracking towards New Zealand but is not expected to touch down here.
The serious storm is tracking north of New Zealand, after passing Vanuatu overnight.
Residents of Vanuatu take shelter as cyclone approaches the same area devastated by the largest cyclone in the island's history last year.
Powerlines and telephone lines were damaged, plunging parts of Vava'u into darkness.
Power is out and phones are down as Tropical Cyclone Ula passes, bringing wild weather.
Kiwi dad-of-two who was on board the crashed Fijian chopper tells of his terror.
Teenager who studied at King's College in Auckland dies in motorbike crash in Rarotonga.
The family of Christopher Limu is "disgusted" the Samoan court system allowed the driver who fatally hit Limu to walk free.
Samoa cleans up after torrential rain causes flooding and slips.
A former Cook Strait ferry, now used as a cargo ship, has capsized off the Fijian capital Suva.
A Kiwi teen will go on trial for the murder of a local youth in Vanuatu. It's a case that has brought simmering tensions bubbling to the surface.
Sitting on a gold mine? There's now a price tag on human excrement.
Alec Cooke made his name surfing Hawaii's huge waves but those waves may have taken his life after he went missing in big surf.


The talented duo, director Prakash Kovelamudi and writer Kanika Dhillon, have announced their separation.
While 2018 was filled with blissful lavish star weddings, 2019 seems to be the ‘Year of Break-ups’ in Bollywood. One knows of at least three high-profile couples in Bollywood who are on the verge of calling off their marriage
After Dia Mirza publicly called off her marriage to filmmaker Sahil Sangha on Thursday, another shocking break-up has come to light. Director Prakash Kovelamudi and writer Kanika Dhillon, currently celebrating their successful partnership in Judgementall Hai Kya have called off their marriage, though hopefully they would continue working together.
Although, an actor from Judgementall Hai Kya comments, “I don’t think Kanika and Prakash would work together again.”
A source who has worked with the estranged couple says their split was a well-known fact among the cast and crew of Judgementall Hai Kya.
“We all knew they were not together for
a long time. But they decided to keep their split away from the media to avoid Judgementall getting affected,” says the source.
While one wouldn’t like to comment on the couple’s personal equation, the timing of their public break-up, less than a week after the release of Judgementall hai Kya, does appear strange. Rumours and hushed whispers speak of a third person’s presence in the Prakash-Kanika marriage.
But we would really not like to comment on the reason for this dissolved partnership. Rather, we would like to dwell on the tragedy of such a talented combo drifting apart.


|We are inviting you to join us at three events at Labour Conference.|
Our chair, Stephen Kinnock MP, will outline findings from Renaissance’s recent research, where we spoke to 60 former Labour voters.
We’re partnering with Progressive Britain on the Monday afternoon, while Stephen will join the Social Market Foundation on Monday lunchtime and Ipsos Mori on the Tuesday lunchtime.
Speakers, timings and locations:
12-1pm, Monday 27 September: Social Market Foundation – Building a winning coalition.
Durham Room at the Hilton. With Stephen Kinnock MP (Renaissance), Adam Drummond (Opinium), Sonia Sodha (The Observer), and Thangam Debbonaire MP.
5.30-7pm, 27 Sept: Progressive Britain and Renaissance – Rebuilding Labour and the Nation.
Sandringham Suite in Queen’s Hotel. With Cllr Shama Tatler (chair), Stephen Kinnock MP (Renaissance), Chris Curtis (Opinium), Liz Kendall MP (Shadow Minister for Social Care), Kim Leadbeater (MP for Batley & Spen), Ian Murray MP (Shadow Sec of State for Scotland). Tell us you’re coming!


This data is the runoff data of nalun hydrological station in the upper reaches of the SYR River from 1753 to May to August 2017 reconstructed based on tree ring data. It is obtained from the tree ring hydrological research jointly carried out by Urumqi desert Meteorological Institute of China Meteorological Administration and the Institute of water and Hydropower of the Kyrgyz National Academy of Sciences. The data can be used for scientific research such as water resources assessment and water conservancy projects in mountainous areas of Central Asia, and the observation time is the calibration period, The linear transformation equation of runoff and tree ring data is established to reconstruct the path quantity. Data period: 1753 to 2017. Data element: average runoff from May to August (m3 / s) Station location: 41.43 ° ″ n, 76.02 ° ″ e, 2039m
This data includes 50 14C dating data of 5 Lake cores (ANGREN jincuo, Yilong lake, guozhaco, bangdaco and gongzhucuo). The age control of lake sediment cores depends on radiocarbon isotope (14C) dating. The chemical treatment and analysis test of this batch of samples were completed in Miami beta laboratory and Peking University in the United States. The test time was 2018-2022. The test process was carried out in strict accordance with relevant standards. The data sheet includes the lake core sample number, laboratory sample number, dating sample depth, 14C dating results, dating error and corrected results, etc. Good chronological control is the basis of paleoenvironmental reconstruction.
Magnetic susceptibility and chromaticity data of the Oligocene Baiyanghe Formation in the southern margin of the Jiuxi Basin on the northeastern margin of the Tibet Plateau. The data are experimental data. The average sampling interval in the field is 1m, and a total of 437 pieces of magnetic susceptibility and chromaticity data were obtained. Magnetic susceptibility data was measured with a Bartington MS-2 portable magnetic susceptibility meter; chromaticity data was measured with a Konica Minolta CM-700 spectrophotometer. Sample collection, pre-processing and experimental procedures were carried out in accordance with strict standards, and the quality of the data obtained was reliable. The results show that the magnetic susceptibility and chromaticity values in the lower part of Baiyanghe Formation have consistent and obvious changes. Combined with the variation characteristics of the strata sedimentary facies in the profile, it is believed that a climate change event occurred in the early Baiyanghe Formation in the southern margin of the Jiuxi Basin. A large number of previous studies on stratigraphy, sedimentology and thermochronology revealed that there were no obvious tectonic events in the northeastern margin of the Tibet Plateau during this period, indicating that the climate change events in this area may be caused by regional climate changes. The climate information reflected by the magnetic susceptibility and chromaticity data of the Baiyanghe Formation in the southern margin of the Jiuxi Basin can provide data support for the study of the paleoclimate in the northeastern margin of the Tibet Plateau.
Understanding the modern relationships between pollen and vegetation, climate, and human land-use completely, is essential for quantitative reconstructions of past vegetation, climate and human impacts. supported by the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition Program, we have collected more than 700 surface-soil samples together with detail vegetation survey. Hitherto, pollen analysis of 318 samples have been completed, and the submitted modern pollen dataset includes the pollen percentages of 24 common taxa, the sampling sites of the dataset cover the all vegetation types on the east and central Tibetan Plateau. The dataset can be utilized in establishment for pollen-climate, pollen-vegetation calibration-sets.
Paleoecological and paleolimnological studies can provide a long-term perspective on changes in environmental and ecosystem processes. The sediments documented both direct and indirect impacts of climate change and human activities on aquatic ecosystems. The fossils of zooplankton remain and pigments in lake sediments can reflect community structure changes of primary producers and primary consumers. The authors reconstructed the zooplankton and algal community changes during the past 600 years using carapaces of A. tibetiana and resting eggs of D. tibetana and pigments from the sediments of Dagze Co, in the central Tibet Plateau. Using total nitrogen and total phosphorus reconstructed the nutrient changes. These results suggest that algal community structure and changes in production can be attributed to alterations in the zooplankton community, with important implications for Tibetan aquatic ecosystems.
Data set contains tree age of trees growing at different glacier moraines in the central Himalayas. The data were obtained using tree ring samples. Cores samples were collected (almost near to the ground level to estimate the minimum age of the related moraine) using an increment borer. Samples were processed by using standard dendrochronological techniques.
The growth of the Tibetan Plateau throughout the past 66 million years has profoundly affected the Asian climate, but how this unparalleled orogenesis might have driven vegetation and plant diversity changes in eastern Asia is poorly understood. We approach this question by integrating modeling results and fossil data. We show that growth of north and northeastern Tibet affects vegetation and, crucially, plant diversity in eastern Asia by altering the monsoon system. This northern Tibetan orographic change induces a precipitation increase, especially in the dry (winter) season, resulting in a transition from deciduous broadleaf vegetation to evergreen broadleaf vegetation and plant diversity increases across southeastern Asia. Further quantifying the complexity of Tibetan orographic change is critical for understanding the finer details of Asian vegetation and plant diversity evolution. *: Corresponding author
Sclerophyllous evergreen broad-leaved forests, mainly made up of sclerophyllous oak, Quercus section Heterobalanus (Øerst.) Menitsky, Fagaceae, represent the most typical forest type in the Hengduan Mountains. Their distribution pattern is closely related to the growth and formation of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP). The oldest fossil record of Quercus sect. Heterobalanus so far discovered is from the middle Miocene of the Gazhacun Formation in Namling County, southern Tibet. However, our recent discovery of leaf fossils from the upper Eocene of Lawula Formation in Markam Basin, southeastern Tibet, illustrates that their origin is nearly 20 Myr older than previously assumed. By integrating the results from geometric morphometrics, geographical range expansion, and ecological niche shifts of this section in what is now the QTP and the Hengduan Mountains, we infer that the leaves of Quercus sect. Heterobalanus were already adapted to cool and dry conditions in some local regions no later than in the late Eocene. Then, with the growth of the QTP and late Cenozoic global cooling, the expansion of cooler and drier habitats benefited the spread and development of this section and their leaves exhibited morphological stasis through stabilizing selection. Based on published fossil records and recent discoveries, we argue that Quercus sect. Heterobalanus appeared in the subtropical evergreen and deciduous broad-leaved mixed forests of the southeastern margin of what is now the QTP no later than in the late Eocene. Some taxa spread westwards along the Gangdese Mountains and later the Himalaya, and others spread eastwards and southeastwards, gradually becoming a dominant group of species in the Hengduan Mountains. This dispersal route is contrary to the previous “northwards hypothesis” of this section, and further supports the hypothesis of an East Asian origin for Quercus section Ilex Loudon.
This paper describes a plant megafossil assemblage from the Pliocene strata of Xiangzi, Zanda Basin in the western Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Twenty-one species belonging to 12 genera and 10 families were identified. Studies show that the Pliocene vegetation in Zanda Basin was mostly deciduous shrub composed of Cotoneaster, Spiraea, Caragana, Hippophae, Rhododendron, Potentilla fruticosa, etc. Leaf sizes of these taxa were generally small. Paleoclimate reconstruction using Coexistence Analysis and CLAMP showed that this area had higher temperature and precipitation in the Pliocene than today, and distinct seasonal precipitation variability was established. The reconstructed paleoelevation of Zanda Basin in the Pliocene was similar to modern times. In the context of central Asian aridification, the gradual drought in the area beginning in the late Cenozoic caused vegetation to transition from shrub to desert, and the flora composition also changed.


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How did Game Genie work? You attached it to the current game that you were going to play, then put it in the way your normally would (with Genie attached). When it started up, you could select so many 'super powers' for your gaming experience. THIS grante
This was my childhood, I'm pretty sure we had the same TV, Super Nintendo, Legos, and the kid on the right kind of looks like me as a kid. wondering if this is some lost photo of me as a kid that my sister posted.

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In the Telegraph, Jasper Copping explains why all those taunts about “perfidious Albion” are at least 90% deserved:
Every schoolboy used to know that at the height of the empire, almost a quarter of the atlas was coloured pink, showing the extent of British rule.
But that oft recited fact dramatically understates the remarkable global reach achieved by this country.
A new study has found that at various times the British have invaded almost 90 per cent of the countries around the globe.
The analysis of the histories of the almost 200 countries in the world found only 22 which have never experienced an invasion by the British.
Among this select group of nations are far-off destinations such as Guatemala, Tajikistan and the Marshall Islands, as well some slightly closer to home, such as Luxembourg.
The analysis is contained in a new book, All the Countries We’ve Ever Invaded: And the Few We Never Got Round To.
Stuart Laycock, the author, has worked his way around the globe, through each country alphabetically, researching its history to establish whether, at any point, they have experienced an incursion by Britain.
The ‘biblical view’ that’s younger than the Happy Meal
In 1979, McDonald’s introduced the Happy Meal.
Sometime after that, it was decided that the Bible teaches that human life begins at conception.
Ask any American evangelical, today, what the Bible says about abortion and they will insist that this is what it says. (Many don’t actually believe this, but they know it is the only answer that won’t get them in trouble.) They’ll be a little fuzzy on where, exactly, the Bible says this, but they’ll insist that it does.
That’s new. If you had asked American evangelicals that same question the year I was born you would not have gotten the same answer.
That year, Christianity Today — edited by Harold Lindsell, champion of “inerrancy” and author of The Battle for the Bible — published a special issue devoted to the topics of contraception and abortion. That issue included many articles that today would get their authors, editors — probably even their readers — fired from almost any evangelical institution. For example, one article by a professor from Dallas Theological Seminary criticized the Roman Catholic position on abortion as unbiblical. Jonathan Dudley quotes from the article in his book Broken Words: The Abuse of Science and Faith in American Politics. Keep in mind that this is from a conservative evangelical seminary professor, writing in Billy Graham’s magazine for editor Harold Lindsell:
God does not regard the fetus as a soul, no matter how far gestation has progressed. The Law plainly exacts: “If a man kills any human life he will be put to death” (Lev. 24:17). But according to Exodus 21:22-24, the destruction of the fetus is not a capital offense. … Clearly, then, in contrast to the mother, the fetus is not reckoned as a soul.
Christianity Today would not publish that article in 2012. They might not even let you write that in comments on their website. If you applied for a job in 2012 with Christianity Today or Dallas Theological Seminary and they found out that you had written something like that, ever, you would not be hired.
At some point between 1968 and 2012, the Bible began to say something different. That’s interesting.
Even more interesting is how thoroughly the record has been rewritten. We have always been at war with Eastasia.
My friend John Spring is sharing some of his vast collection of railway film and photos with Canrail Video, and they’ve posted this excerpt of footage on the railway, including some of the last runs under steam on the TH&B:
For more information on the railway, check the TH&B Railway Historical Society page or the Yahoo group (full disclosure: I founded the historical society, although I’m not currently active with the organization). I’m also the moderator for the discussion group.
The RAF took the Vulcan bomber out of service in the 1980s, and the last flying example of the aircraft has been kept up by a trust organization since 2005. The trust has concluded that they can’t afford the necessary repairs to keep the aircraft airworthy:
They were once the UK’s most potent nuclear deterrent and were on standby for a role in the Cuban missile crisis.
But in recent years there has been just one that kept the flag flying for the Vulcan Bombers.
XH558 is the final airworthy aircraft of its type and has been admired by thousands of people each year at air shows as a result.
But soon it too could be grounded like all those before it.
The “tin triangle”, which is more than 50 years old, needs “challenging modifications” to both wings which the trust that owns it has decided cannot be funded.
The Leicestershire-based Vulcan To The Sky trust, which bought the aircraft in 2005, says escalating costs and limited engine life mean soon it will be confined to the runway for limited displays.
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The XH558 is now used to woo the crowds at air shows but keeping the 52-year-old aircraft in working order is a constant challenge for the engineers who work on her.
Chief engineer Mr Stone said he has had to have “words” with some of the pilots over the years who have pulled manoeuvres and airborne stunts which have made him “almost fall off his chair” as he watched from the ground.
The basic problem being that there are so many patents, covering so many things, that the system is in danger of eating itself like Ourobouros.
When Dan Ravicher of the Public Patent Foundation studied one large program (Linux, which is the kernel of the GNU/Linux operating system) in 2004, he found 283 U.S. patents that appeared to cover computing ideas implemented in the source code of that program. That same year, it was estimated that Linux was .25 percent of the whole GNU/Linux system. Multiplying 300 by 400 we get the order-of-magnitude estimate that the system as a whole was threatened by around 100,000 patents.
If half of those patents were eliminated as “bad quality” — i.e., mistakes of the patent system — it would not really change things. Whether 100,000 patents or 50,000, it’s the same disaster. This is why it’s a mistake to limit our criticism of software patents to just “patent trolls” or ”bad quality” patents. In this sense Apple, which isn’t a “troll” by the usual definition, is the most dangerous patent aggressor today. I don’t know whether Apple’s patents are “good quality,” but the better the patent’s “quality,” the more dangerous its threat.
It’s near impossible to develop new software when there are so many such patents out there. Further, even if you tried to get clearance (or signed up to licenses and so on) to use them it would be near impossible.And we do need to recall what the purpose of a patent system is. No, it isn’t to provide and income to those who create inventions. That’s only the proximate aim: the ultimate aim is to maximise the amount of invention and innovation.
The economics of patents accepts that there is a tradeoff here. Yes, we’d like people who come up with useful new things to make money. Because that incentivises people to work on coming up with interesting new things to all our benefit. However, we also want people to be able to create derivative innovations and inventions. If our protection of the original inventors is too strong then we limit this. What we want is a system that hits the sweet spot, of encouraging the maximum amount of both, original and derivative. The problem of course being that to encourage one we weaken the incentives to do the other, either way around.


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Julien Baker, Live In Concert: Newport Folk 2016
Julien Baker's music speaks to all of your nagging insecurities, the daily worries that nibble away at your well-being even as you try to suppress them. The title of her debut album, Sprained Ankle, hints at that sensibility: An ankle sprain might be a pretty mundane injury, but it's certainly going to keep you off your feet for a while — especially if, as she sings in the title song, you're a marathon runner. At the same time, Baker's lyrics can tread beyond self-doubt to brush against devastation and almighty dread; she hooks listeners somewhere in between the smallness of the everyday and the gaping maw of the existential.
At Newport Folk, the 20-year-old Memphian filled the quad inside Fort Adams with plaintive folk songs and electric guitar. Midway through her set, Baker brought out Matthew Gilliam, her bandmate in Forrister, to add touches of atmospheric percussion to "Vessels" and "Brittle Boned." But for the most part, it was just her ragged-edged voice and ringing Telecaster — and that was enough to win over the audience, who gave her multiple standing ovations. Particularly well received was "Good News," which, as Baker explained, is about "thinking you ruin everything ... and then figuring out that you don't."
Audio: Joshua Rogosin, Suraya Mohamed, Loretta Rae; Photography: Adam Kissick
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House of Robots: Robot Revolution
Robots on strike! Sammy’s underappreciated mechanical helpers are causing chaos in book 3 of the bestselling House of Robots series.
After a few early glitches in their relationship, Sammy and his “bro-bot” E are now fast friends. In fact, E is such a valued member of the family that the other electronic occupants of the House of Robots are feeling sorely unappreciated. And when Sammy’s inventor mom becomes distracted by a top-secret project, the robots soon begin to fall into disrepair.
Cue a robot revolt, with the droids wreaking harmless havoc in the house! Armed with pranks like glue in the shampoo bottles and flying toast missiles, the robots demand to be cared for. It’s up to Sammy and his disabled sister Maddie to keep the peace until his mom reveals her secret project…and why it was worth the wait.
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—Jacqueline, Amazon reviewer
“My 9 year old son is obsessed with this series and could not put this book down! He even created an AR test for his class because there wasn’t one out yet when he finished.”
—Vquit1, Amazon reviewer
“…it’s an entertaining and fun book that you can sit down and read for hours.”
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Salman Khan is busy working out in order to don five different looks in his upcoming film, Bharat. The film will unfold a story spanning across decades and hence requires to show the physical transition of Salman Khan’s character. The film also stars Katrina Kaif alongside Salman.
Reportedly, the very hardworking and determined actor has gotten a 10,000 square feet gym set up in Film City where he is currently shooting the last schedule of his upcoming film Bharat. The producers of the film, Atul Agnihotri and Nikhil Namit have gotten a gym set up within one week in order to make sure that Salman Khan doesn’t miss his workout regimen. The gym has state-of-the-art equipment as reported by leading Indian Publications.
Zoom Tv quoted a source as saying, “Since Salman did not want to travel to Goregaon from Bandra daily, he moved to a location near the set. He asked for a huge gym to be made on the set itself, with the equipment from his own line, Being Human. It’s a state-of-the-art gym, which has all the latest workout gear hand-picked by Salman. It took a week to construct the gym.”
Salman Khan is generally a fitness fanatic who workouts religiously to remain fit and healthy. The superstar looks fit at even at the age of 53. Salman Khan has now dedicated his schedule for pulling off a convincing act in his upcoming film Bharat. The amount of hard work the actor is putting in is truly impressive.
Salman Khan will be working out twice a day to don a lean figure which will compliment the character’s younger days. The film is now nearing the end of its shooting and is slated for release on Eid this year however it is uncertain if it will release in Pakistan or not.

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The story of Noah and the ark receives a great deal of attention in children's literature. Several books are available which use this story to teach young children to count or to identify the numerous types of animals which found refuge in the ark.
It's a story which lends itself to lavish illustration and designers of children's books tend to make the most of this possibility.
While not wanting to seem critical of one of the few places where God rates a mention in mainstream children's literature, all of this does raise the question of what we make of this story. Do we see it as merely a fable with no more connection to real events than Doctor Seuss' Green Eggs and Ham? Do we see it as merely a story about animal identification, big rainstorms and rainbows?
For early Christian writers, the story of the Deluge was a profoundly important story, one of the most important in the Old Testament. They saw it as an event which prefigured and found its fulfilment in Christ's death and resurrection. They viewed it as further fulfilled in the sacrament of Baptism. Indeed, they believed the Creation story, the Great Flood, the crossing of the Red Sea and Joshua's leading the people over the Jordan help us better understand the nature of Baptism.
The late French theologian Jean Danielou succinctly summarized the essential connection of the Deluge with the New Covenant: "The world is filled with sin; the judgment of God destroys the sinful world; one just man is spared to be the principle of a new creation" (The Bible and the Liturgy, p. 75). The story contains nothing about water as a substance for cleansing; water here is purely destructive. An old way of life is destroyed; something new will be put in its place.
Early Christian writers saw significance in all details of this story. The dove which announced new life to Noah prefigures the dove which came down upon Christ at his Baptism and the Holy Spirit which comes to us through ours. The ark is a figure of the church, outside which there is no life. The wood of the ark is a herald of the cross through which Christ brought salvation. Even the eight people on the ark are seen as a symbol of the eighth day of the week -- the day of the resurrection, the day of the new creation.
The crossing of the Red Sea is another sign of the Baptism to come in the New Covenant. Here again, water is not for cleansing, but for destruction. And there is the further element of liberation from slavery. Just as the Hebrews were liberated from subjection to Pharaoh, so are we liberated from slavery to sin.
The crossing of the Jordan further hints at the meaning of Baptism. The waters are parted so that the Ark of the Covenant and the people can enter the Promised Land. Likewise, through the waters of Baptism we enter a new way of being and begin to live as we will in our heavenly home.
But what of this way of reading the Bible? Were the early Christian writers simply projecting Catholic biases onto previous events? Or, were they uncovering a meaning that was already there, but hidden from the Hebrews?
Certainly, Scripture itself favors the latter view. During the Babylonian captivity, the Hebrew prophets announced that God would perform deeds similar to, but even greater, than those he had in the past. Matthew's Gospel is at pains to show how Jesus fulfilled -- gave wider and deeper meaning to -- the events of the Jewish Covenant. And in John 6, Jesus himself states that just as God gave manna to the Israelites in the desert, so Jesus gives us his own body and blood to eat. Moreover, his body and blood give eternal life while those who ate the manna all died.
Sacraments are signs. But these signs are not mere human conventions. They are foreshadowed in the Old Testament and given to us in their fullness by the Son of God.
So it is with Baptism. St. Paul tells us that the crossing of the Red Sea foreshadowed Baptism (1 Corinthians 10:1-4). St. Peter saw a clear sign of Baptism in the story of Noah (1 Peter 3:18-21).
The story of Noah is a good story for children. It can open them up to the story of the relationship between God and humanity. As adults, we should plumb that and other Old Testament stories at greater depth to learn about the great mystery of our salvation through Jesus.
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Josh Tongue is included in the Worcestershire CCC squad for the first time this season for the LV=Insurance County Championship derby with Warwickshire at Edgbaston beginning tomorrow.
The 23-year-old paceman underwent shoulder surgery during the winter and had not acquired the necessary match fitness by the start of the season.
But Tongue has come through several appearances for the Seconds with flying colours, including three Second Eleven Championship four-day games, and is named as part of a 14 strong squad.
Worcestershire Head Coach, Alex Gidman, said: “We wanted Josh to prove his fitness to himself as much as anything.
“For his own sake, Josh needed to have the confidence in his body to get through four days competitively but also back that up with another four days.
“He has managed to do that. He was a little bit behind in pre-season due to the injury and operation he had during the winter, but he has done everything we had hoped for, and he has come through those Second team games well.
“Most importantly, he has performed, which is why he is back in contention for the first team.”
Worcestershire are lying in third spot in an ultra-competitive Group One – just two points behind leaders Warwickshire.
Gidman said: “So far, the competition has been great. You look at each group, and most teams are only a win or a draw away from being in that top two.
“From my point of view, I think we’ve got the most points we could have out of each game, whether that’s due to our performances or the conditions and the players are putting in a huge shift.
“We will see what the next few games bring, obviously another tough little period with going away for three games, but I know the guys are in a good place and looking forward to the next few matches.”
Worcestershire are one of the few counties who have to play all nine matches in the initial block of Championship fixtures without a week’s break – unlike next week’s opponents, Durham, who are not featuring in this round of games.
Gidman said: “It will be tough, but one of the biggest strengths of this group is just getting on with things and dealing with what is in front of them.
“It is a very tough fixture against a Warwickshire team likely to be at full strength, including quite a few international players.
“But it’s a good opportunity for us to give them a good run for their money and see how many points we can get out of the fixture.”
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2015 marked the Mustang's 50th anniversary, bringing with it the biggest design changes in years. Technically, it's on the same platform as its predecessor, but every dimension has been altered. The result is a car that is smaller than the outgoing model yet has a longer, wider wheelbase and more interior space. Independent rear suspension is finally available across the board, while a new double ball joint suspension and subframe at the front of the car mean major handling improvements and allow space for bigger brakes.
Of course, the main focus of any Mustang is the engine. The V6 is still technically available, but the true base engine is now the 2.3 liter EcoBoost. Producing 310 hp and 320 lb-ft. of torque from the factory, peak output is a little higher than the V6, but its major advantage comes from the engine's characteristic flat torque curve, giving it a feel more akin to a big V8 than a turbo four-cylinder. Unique features for the Mustang version include a twin-scroll turbocharger and a steel crankshaft. EcoBoost-equipped Mustangs weigh about 150 lbs. less than the GT, making them a good platform for building a track car.
The GT is powered by a Coyote V8 producing 435 hp and 400 lb-ft. of torque. That extra power shaves close to a second off the car's quarter mile time, yet it still delivers an EPA-estimated 25 mpg on the highway. It's not surprising the 5.0 has become so popular for engine swaps. Unlike the Ecoboost, this motor uses port fuel injection. This choice was made because Ford designers have said the advantages of a direct injection setup on this engine aren't enough to compensate for the added weight.
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David Cronenberg's 'luridly enjoyable' film exposes the humour and horror Hollywood lives
‘Brilliantly acted’ film adaptation of Posh reveals how rich boys are groomed for power
Philip Seymour Hoffman 'magnificent' until the end in slow-burn Le Carre espionage tale
Dan Stevens reveals his 'mesmerising' dark side in 'bonkers' new thriller about a returned soldier
From Michael Keaton playing a washed-up actor to a metaphysical film that critics just can't explain
Jesse Eisenberg stars in smart, gripping eco thriller with an ending you can debate all night
An orange-level breaking news alert heralded Brad and Angelina's wedding. Twitter, as usual, made jokes
Marion Cotillard is 'magnificent' in this must-see talking-point movie about the 21 century workplace
Veteran film critic raises eyebrows by attacking star's 'saccharine tooth-rotting sentimentality'
Plastic bottle gaffe In Downton Abbey press shot adds to a long list of anachronisms in movies and TV
A street vendor in Kabul sells balloons to a group of Afghan children. Although the economy in Afghanistan has shown some signs of improvement since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, low wages and unemployment remain challenges for the government.
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Cadillac is working on a large, high-end luxury flagship sedan, as evidenced by these images from a spy photographer. The Cadillac flagship, which is codenamed 01SL, could go on sale as soon as the third quarter of 2015. It would compete with cars like the Audi A8, BMW 7 Series, and Mercedes-Benz S-Class.
Based on General Motors’ rear-wheel-drive Omega platform, the Cadillac flagship sedan is a large vehicle with an extremely long wheelbase, befitting its luxury pretensions. The car is likely largely inspired by the Cadillac Elmiraj two-door concept shown at Pebble Beach in 2013. Although reports suggested Cadillac would build a four-door coupe, the angled rear window and stubby trunk on this prototype result in a more traditional three-box sedan shape. Cadillac's familiar chrome-trimmed grille is visible through the camouflage tape out front, along with vertical LED running lights that echo the headlights of the Cadillac ATS, CTS, and XTS sedans. Our source also says that a true coupe and a convertible could follow in 2016.
For the full story go to www.automobilemag.com.


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The fatal flaw in the tolerance ideology
First Davos, now Bilderberg—Europe’s elite are looking to the Catholic Church.
Does the German chancellor think the country needs a strongman?
You put the Italian government in; you put the Spanish prime minister out …
A demonstrably misleading front-page article shows how the nyt staff bends facts to fit ideology.
Never surrender, stock up on food, and know how to recognize an air raid siren. This is just some of the advice Sweden is giving its people.
By one measure, it may even be smaller than China’s.
Why are Europeans demonizing this president unlike any before?
We could soon have an EU that tells its member states how to run their own countries.
The EU wants to create a substantial force it can deploy anywhere in the Union—even without the host nation’s permission.
The European Union is fighting a “sort of European civil war,” French President Emmanuel Macron said last week. Germany could soon decide the outcome.
Former German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg chides the chancellor for letting others do her ‘dirty work.’

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MATTHEW PEARSON THOMPSON (1780 – 1849)
The first of my husband John’s ancestors to arrive in Australia was Matthew Pearson Thompson who was his 3x Great Grandfather. He was a convict and arrived 1814.
Matthew was born in Slingsby, North Yorkshire 12th January 1780. On the 2nd February 1809 he married Ann Earl (b 08/06/1780) at St Mary’s Newington, in Southwark.
Their first child, William Pearson, was born 2 April 1809. A girl, Frances (Fanny) was born Kennington Cross, London 18/10/ 1810. Fanny is John’s 2x Great Grandmother.
By 1813 Matthew was a merchant’s clerk, employed by Sir Robert Burnett, Robert, Charles and John Burnett. The Burnetts were grain merchants and owners of a distillery near Vauxhall Bridge, London. Today Burnett’s London Dry Gin is manufactured in the US.
In 1813 Matthew was charged at Lent Sessions, Surrey with stealing money from his employers Sir Robert Burnett KT and others over a three-year period. He was sentenced on 29 March 1813 to transportation for 14 years. In the documents he was described as a merchant’s clerk, aged 33, 5 foot 5 inches height, dark/pale complexion, hazel eyes, Protestant from York. He sailed on the ship General Hewitt to arrive in Sydney 7 Feb 1814. Interesting to note that Frances Greenway was a convict aboard that ship too.
His wife, Ann and son, William Pearson, arrived on the Broxbournebury on 28 July 1814. Fanny was left in London. She would have been just three years old.
It is likely that he had letters of introduction as not only did his wife and child get free passage, but immediately upon his arrival he was appointed schoolmaster at the Government Charity School in Pitt Town. He was given a school residence, 30 pounds in salary and then in 1818 was promoted to assistant to the teacher at Wilberforce (a much more important school) where he stayed until receiving his ‘ticket of leave’ in 1822.
Census of 1828 shows him as aged 47, Free by servitude, farmer of Lower Portland Head with his wife Ann (aged 45) and children William 20, Elizabeth 13, Matthew George 8, Jane 6 and Thomas 3. In 1830 he was granted a further 200 acres for help in capturing bushrangers (possibly Jack Donohoe and his gang) – this was along the Boree swamp in Auburn Parrish.
When local government came to the Valley Matthew Pearson Thompson was one of the three Valley men appointed to the seven-man District Council for Wollombi and McDonald. He was a keen supporter of the Hawkesbury Benevolent Society.
He died on 10 March 1849 and is buried in the Old St Albans burial ground, his wife Ann, who died 17 Aug 1868 is buried with him.
The family story continues with Fanny Maund, Matthew and Ann’s eldest daughter who was, by 1849 a widow. Fanny arrived in Australia just months after her father died.
Frances Thompson Maund
Fanny was the mother to Isabella McDonald Maund and this is where the story continues. Because I haven’t found out a lot about Fanny Maund I have put her story on the same page as her daughter, Isabella McDonald Maund.


Poor game The graphics represents the Queen with a cross on its head instead of t king and worst of all, the computer said "check" when my king wasn't under threat. I ended the game immediately and in installed the app.
Unfair Advantages This seems like it would have been a good game but sometimes the computer has unfair advantages, one time it had two queens, and sometimes it won't let you move your pieces into any spot other than the one that will get your piece taken.
Chess Everytime his man gets jumped they won't allow me quit it u Sally rabbot so u get a sad face😯
Shawn I like this chess app alot computer may seem to be able to counter your ever move but it can be deceived just like a player on a board , with that said great chess to all who love the gane whether it be this app or another
alright game graphics get stuck on oneplus one phone. worked excellent on iphone4. game in itself is fine though, no nonsense no graphics... just chess
Gumpy Wanted to dominate the computer and get all my pawns to queen and it wins by "stalemate" 0/10 would not play again it's some butt
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In a previous article I discussed a new kind of psychotherapy based on the hypothesis on humanization and the functioning of the human brain outlined in “Civilization of famine”. I remind the reader that the applications of this hypothesis, recently extended, have philosophical implications and could contribute to the development
of some new public policies.
In short, I am talking about the applications at the psychological level of a hypothesis connected to the appearance of consciousness and mental disorders in humans. According to the hypothesis, any mental illness, from autism to dementia (Alzheimer’s), is given by an energy deficit that affects the synthesis of certain specific proteins, which are different at different ages. Humanization is mainly the expression, in a greater or lesser quantity, of some genes, especially certain tissues.
An important metabolic pathway involved in humanization is insulin/IGF1 (insulin-like growth factor 1), which modifies the cell proliferation/differentiation ratio.
There are numerous data showing the involvement of this pathway in various mental illnesses. We will not go into details here, suffice it to say that these illnesses should be treated in a different way, not by mitigating the symptoms, but by way of the biochemical changes they produce. Their taxonomy is dated and biologically inconsistent, coming from a time when nothing was known about biochemistry. The disorders surface when this pathway is perturbed, due to genetic or environmental factors, or perhaps due to both. The relationship between stress and the onset of mental disorders is well known. Occupational therapy has some positive effects.
Psychotherapy should aim to restore the functioning of this pathway (and not only) through behavior and attitude. It should not influence the desires of the patient, their way of thinking, values, and ideals, but rather evaluate these from the point of view of their energetic costs. This kind of psychotherapy is based on a sort of
behavioral and mental energy management. The purpose is an adaptation that reaches a point as close as possible to happiness, not resignation and capitulation.
Happiness would be defined as a compact source of reward, which can release a feeling of satisfaction for a long time. The directions of this treatment would be as follows.
- Identifying the most important wishes, desires, and ideals of the patient
- Evaluating their problems, sources of stress (either external or behavioral),
noxious ideas that are not conducive to reward
- Helping the patient to channel their efforts towards obtaining the maximum
amount of happiness
The final step is accomplished through:
- Disposing as much as possible of the external sources of stress, the behaviors, mentalities, and ideas that generate high mental (and biochemical) energy consumption
- Coordinating efforts towards reaching the goals that have high chances of producing happiness
- Developing the consciousness, which assures a better mental stability and a better ability to focus the patient’s efforts
- Ensuring continuous rewards
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Matthew struggled with substance abuse, including heroin, for many years following a testicular cancer battle. After months of sobriety, he slipped and it cost him both of his legs. He is now seeking help to change his life once and for all.
Following years of drug use after his cancer scare, multiple drug charges and spending time in jail, Matthew appeared to be on the path to sobriety with 124 days of being clean. He fell off the wagon in 2014 and used heroin yet again, this time overdosing. During the overdose, the blood supply to his legs was cut off for more than 24 hours and he was left with the horrendous decision of either death or losing both of this legs.
He joins The Doctors to share his harrowing journey in hopes of inspiring others with substance abuse to make better choices.
“My message is to let anybody else out there who is struggling with addiction or that is new to recovery, to stick with it, to not make the same decision that I made. I never in my life thought that this could be the repercussion from using 1 more time,” he tells ER physician Dr. Travis Stork.
He is currently experiencing pain, including phantom limb pain, associated with his amputations and his physicians are prescribing him opioid pain medication, the same meds he was previously addicted to. He and his family are both concerned that he could easily slip into another downward drug spiral.
Matthew is far from alone in his struggle, as there are 78 opioid-related overdoses occurring in America every day and on average 650,000 opioid prescriptions are dispensed daily. Additionally, heroin overdoses from 2000 to 2013 has quadrupled and those addicted to opioids are 40 times more likely to also be addicted to heroin.
In an effort to save Matthew from becoming another tragic statistic, The Doctors have arranged for him to receive treatment for his pain management and addiction with the use of psychotherapy and Transcranial magnetic stimulation, which uses electromagnetic pulses to target specific brain nerve cells.
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Former CEO of Worldwide Financial Resources Sentenced in $11 Million Fraudulent Mortgage Loan Scheme
|U.S. Attorney’s Office September 27, 2011|
TRENTON, NJ—The former CEO of Worldwide Financial Resources, a New Jersey-based mortgage origination firm, was sentenced today to 63 months in prison in connection with an $11 million fraudulent loan scheme, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
David Findel, 45, of Monmouth County, N.J., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Peter G. Sheridan in Trenton federal court. He had previously pleaded guilty to an information charging him with wire fraud.
According to the information to which Findel pleaded guilty and statements made in Trenton federal court:
Findel is the former CEO of Worldwide Financial Resources (“Worldwide”), which was in the business of originating residential home loans. Worldwide worked with borrowers to prepare mortgage applications and qualify the borrowers for home mortgages. Although Worldwide would originate the mortgage loans, after origination, Worldwide would re-sell the loans to another financial institution in the secondary mortgage marketplace.
Findel admitted he prepared and sold fake mortgage loans from 2008 through September 2009. Specifically, after Worldwide had originated a mortgage loan and sold that loan to a third-party lender, Findel would create a second set of fraudulent loan documents for the same property. He would then sell the second set of fraudulent loan documents to another third-party lender, even though the actual mortgage loan for that property already had been sold. As a result of these fake mortgage loans, Findel received over $11 million in illicit proceeds, which he used, in part, to maintain his lavish lifestyle—including his multi-million-dollar home in Colts Neck, exotic travel, and exclusive seating at a major New Jersey professional sports arena.
In addition to the prison term, Findel was sentenced to three years’ supervised release and ordered to pay $11,994,000 in restitution. He was immediately remanded into custody.
On Sept. 19, 2011, Findel pleaded guilty to a separate Information charging him with bankruptcy fraud for concealing assets from the U.S. Trustee, the bankruptcy case trustee and creditors in his bankruptcy case. He is scheduled to be sentenced on that count on Nov. 14, 2011.
U.S. Attorney Fishman credited special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Michael B. Ward, in Newark, with the investigation that resulted in today’s guilty plea.
The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Kelly of the U.S. Attorney’s Office Criminal Division in Newark.
This case was brought in coordination with President Barack Obama’s Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force. President Obama established the interagency Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force to wage an aggressive, coordinated, and proactive effort to investigate and prosecute financial crimes. The task force includes representatives from a broad range of federal agencies, regulatory authorities, inspectors general, and state and local law enforcement who, working together, bring to bear a powerful array of criminal and civil enforcement resources. The task force is working to improve efforts across the federal executive branch, and with state and local partners, to investigate and prosecute significant financial crimes, ensure just and effective punishment for those who perpetrate financial crimes, combat discrimination in the lending and financial markets, and recover proceeds for victims of financial crimes.

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Hospice and home health provider LHC Group (NASDAQ: LHCG) will provide $20 million in funding during the next 10 years to the University of Louisiana at Lafayette College of Nursing and Allied Health Professions. The company is hoping to stem the tide of ongoing staffing shortages that are expected to worsen in coming years.
The investment is expected to finance in-person and virtual degree programs beginning in the nursing school. In time these dollars will be used to support more than 55 degree programs in each of the university’s schools. This will include post-acute care certifications at the graduate level.
“This is a strategic investment in our future, particularly that of our LHC Group family of health care providers – our greatest asset and most important resource,” said Keith Myers, LHC Group chairman and CEO. “Advancing employee education is one of the strongest and most strategic differentiators for employee recruitment and retention.”
LHC Group employees will be able to take courses at the university at a reduced cost, and the donation opens up adjunct professorship opportunities for the company’s personnel, according to Myers.
More patients than ever are seeking hospice and palliative care, and the industry may not have enough trained clinicians to take care of them. More than 35% of hospice leaders surveyed by Hospice News and Homecare Homebase earlier this year cited staffing shortages as a top concern for their organizations, along with regaining access to patients in facilities.
Currently the United States has 13.35 hospice and palliative care specialists for every 100,000 adults 65 and older. An April 2018 study estimated that by 2040 the patient population will need 10,640 to 24,000 specialists; supply is expected to range between 8,100 and 19,000.
Hospice and palliative care providers are already seeing shortages in other disciplines, including chaplains, nurses, and social workers. As far back as 2008, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service (CMS) began allowing hospice providers to use contracted nursing staff because not enough nurses were available to fill permanent positions.
LHC Group itself has its eyes fixed on revamping recruitment and retention strategies during 2021. LHC Group is taking a regional approach to recruitment across each of its service lines. Each service, such as home health or hospice, has dedicated hiring teams that are focused on specific geographic areas.
“Unfortunately, we’re dealing with a national shortage of nurses across all sectors of the healthcare industry,” Myers said. “We believe this [$20 million investment] is an innovative and forward-thinking way for our company to step up and help address this need.”


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