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Apache Cassandra – Distributed Database – Part II
Apache Cassandra – Distributed Database – Part II
As seen in consistency, Cassandra offers the users the choice of synchronous and asynchronous replication. Reducing replication factor is easy as it only requires running cleanup afterwards removing extra replicas. Highly available asynchronous operations are optimized with features like:
- Hinted Handoff – If a node which should receive a write is down, a hint will be written to a live replica node indicating that the write needs to be replayed to the unavailable node. If there are no live replica nodes for the key the coordinating node will write the hint locally. This reduces the time required for a temporarily failed node to become consistent again. Hinted Handoff is a way by which Cassandra provides extreme write availability when consistency is not required. It is not sufficient for the ConsistencyLevel requirements of ONE, QUORUM or ALL (because these guarantee Consistency and writing somewhere doesn't meet that requirement).
- Read Repair – When a query is made against a key, the query is performed against all the replicas of the key. If the ConsistencyLevel specified is low, then this is done in the background after returning the data from the closest replica to the client.
Conflict resolution is made during the read requests by way of "read repair". Conflict resolution is based on timestamp specified by the client when you insert the row or the column. The higher timestamp wins and the node you are reading the data is responsible for that. Thus, all Cassandra clients' need to be synchronized (based on an NTP for instance) in order to ensure the resolution conflict be reliable. The current version of Cassandra does not provide a Vector Clock conflict resolution mechanisms (should be available in the version 0.7).
Availability and Fault Tolerance
High availability is achieved using replication and actively replicating data across data centers is recommended. Since eventual consistency is the mantra of the system, reads execute on the closest replica and data is repaired in the background for increased read throughput.
Cluster membership is maintained via Gossip style (computer-to-computer communication protocol inspired by the form of gossip seen in social networks) membership algorithm. Failures of nodes within the cluster are monitored using an Accrual Style Failure Detector. A family of failure detectors, called accrual failure detectors, is defined whereby each monitoring process associates to each of the monitored processes, a real number that changes over time. The value represents a suspicion level, with zero implying that the process is not suspected at all and larger the value, the stronger the suspicion. Unlike binary failure detectors, accrual failure detectors leave the task of interpreting the suspicion level to applications.
Failure detection comprises three basic tasks:
1. Monitoring -Allows the failure detector to gather information about other hosts and their processes. Typically done by samplingb heartbeat arrivals or query-response delays.
2. Interpretation – Makes sense of the information obtained through monitoring.
3. Actions – Executed as a response to triggered suspicions
If a node goes down entirely, it is recommended that you bring up the replacement node with a new IP address and AutoBootstrap set to true in storage-conf.xml. This will place the replacement node in the cluster in the appropriate position. Then bootstrap process begins and once done the node is ready to receive reads. Remove the token of the dead node by running "nodetool removetoken" once. Also run "nodetool cleanup" on each node to remove old Hinted Handoff writes stored for the dead node. Alternative, is to bring up a replacement node with the same IP and taken as the old one and run "nodetool repair".
Cassandra version 0.6 onwards authenticates (using login function) with the cluster for operation on the specified keyspace using the Authentication Request credentials. If the credentials are invalid, it throws Authentication Exception and if the credentials are valid, but not for the specified keyspace, it throws Authorization Exception.
Other Points on Cassandra
- Cassandra was started by Facebook in 2007 and open-sourced in 2008.
- Cassandra was a prophetess in Troy during the Trojan War whose predictions were always true but never believed!
- Cassandra is in production use at Digg, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Rackspace, Cloudkick, Cisco, SimpleGeo, Ooyala, OpenX, and companies that have large, active data sets. The use cases are in http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/CassandraUsers
- Cassandra's largest production cluster is said to have over 100 TB of data in over 150 machines.
- The Use cases in the website are still incomplete (http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/UseCases)
- Riptana provides professional Cassandra support and services. Similarly ONZRA provides enterprise grade Cassandra architecture and development services (these are not endorsed by Apache).
- Several heavy users of Cassandra deploy in the cloud, e.g. CloudKick on Rackspace Cloud Servers and SimpleGeo on Amazon EC2.
- Rackspace's VMs offer better performance for Cassandra because of CPU bursting, raided local disks, and separate public/private network interfaces.
Cassandra provides a structured key-value store with eventual consistency. Keys map to multiple values, which are grouped into column families. Columns are added only to specified keys, so different keys can have different numbers of columns in any given family. The values from a column family for each key are stored together, making Cassandra a hybrid between a column-oriented database and a row-oriented store.
Cassandra has interfaces for Ruby, Python (Telephus and Pycassa) and, Scala. Thrift is the Cassandra driver-level interface that these clients build on. Hadoop map/reduce jobs can retrieve data from Cassandra. The StorageProxy API (Thrift calls translate to this) is available to JVM-based clients and could provide some efficiency gains. But it is not recommended as backward compatibility is not guaranteed. Cassandra runs on a JVM and exposes JMX properties. Monitoring information can be collected using jConsole or any JMX compliant tool.
Cassandra provides elastic scaling as read and write throughput both increase linearly as new machines are added, with no downtime or interruption to applications. Cassandra is aptly described as a BigTable data model running on an Amazon Dynamo-like infrastructure.


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If the insurance company has denied your claim for ERISA disability benefits, you are probably wondering: What do I do now? The short answer is that ERISA provides for a two-part appeals process. First you must go through the insurance company's internal appeal process. If the insurance company again denies your disability claim, then you can file an appeal with the federal courts. In this post, our ERISA disability appeals lawyer will explain how the federal appeals process works.
ERISA Disability Appeals in Federal Court
What is a Standard of Review?
A federal court's power to overturn a denial of disability benefits depends on the applicable "standard of review." Courts have varying levels of power in reviewing cases. A standard of review sets the legal framework for the court's evaluation of a case. Sometimes, a court has broad powers to review any and all issues in a claim. Other times, the court's ability to review and evaluate issues is much more limited.
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What is the "De Novo" Standard?
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Disabled workers prefer the de novo standard because it gives federal judges more power to review (and potentially overturn) disability insurance denials.
What is the "Arbitrary and Capricious" Standard?
The arbitrary and capricious standard of review applies only when a disability insurance plan gives its administrator broad discretion over benefit eligibility. If the arbitrary and capricious standard applies in your case, you must show that the insurance company abused its discretion by denying your claim. In other words, the judge must defer to the insurance company's decision unless there was no reasonable basis for its denial of benefits.
The arbitrary and capricious standard strongly favors insurance companies. Abuse of discretion is difficult to prove. If the insurance company's decision was reasonable, federal judges will uphold it. For this reason, many insurance companies insert discretionary clauses in their ERISA plans.
Which Standard Applies in My Disability Insurance Claim?
Again, de novo review applies unless your disability insurance plan provides the plan administrator with broad discretion over claims. Before you file a disability insurance claim, request a copy of your disability insurance policy's summary plan description (SPD). The SPD sets out your insurance plan's procedures and requirements for disability benefit eligibility.
If your plan contains a discretionary clause, it should be in the SPD. The rules in an SPD can differ greatly from plan to plan, so make sure you have a copy of your current SPD (and not an older version).
If you see a discretionary clause in your disability insurance policy or SPD, you may be stuck with the arbitrary and capricious standard. However, there are times when de novo review applies even when a discretionary clause is present in a policy. Moreover, federal courts may limit the arbitrary and capricious standard when the plan administrator has a conflict of interest. Under ERISA law, the plan administrator is a "fiduciary" and must act in your best interest. If the administrator protects the insurance company's interests (instead of yours), there is a conflict of interest. This is often the case when the plan administrator is an employee of the insurance company.
The Supreme Court has held that judges should impose a higher level of scrutiny when there is evidence of a conflict of interest. While the arbitrary and capricious standard still applies, it is less deferential. Thus, the judge in your case may be less deferential to the insurance company's decision if you have evidence showing that the plan administrator:
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Extensive studies in Jardin de Plantes and in the Museum of Natural History in Paris enabled him to acquire concise knowledge of nature. He managed to bring plastics from the academic classicism to modern styles.
The son of a gold-smith was born on September 24, 1795 in Paris and got his first education from his father. Then he continued his studies as a steel engraver and completed them in the studio of the architect Bosio and the painter Gross. In 1818 Barye was accepted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts (The School of Fine Arts). When he was rejected from the Paris Salon in 1837, he founded a handicraft company together with a companion where the models for the famous Parisian bronze appeared.
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In my Bible reading today I found a real challenge to think more deeply about what to put on today. Colossians chapter 3 describes some of the ways in which First Century Christians lived before they started following Christ and how that changed once their faith started affecting the things they "put on" daily. "But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander and filthy language from your lips. Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices." (Col. 3:8-9) That is a wardrobe of clothes as ugly as the bottom of an eagle's nest after dinner time! Those are the old tattered garments of a life lived without Christ and with no concern for others or their feelings.
Within a few lines, though, the author of the New Testament letter shows the contrasting outfit that Christian believers are invited to "put on" each day. "Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity". (Col. 3:12-14). Now that really would bring about a new season in my dress code!
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The American Academy of Arts and Sciences published its Memoirs beginning with Volume 1 dated 1783. We note that, although dated 1783, the volume did not appear until 1785. The original series had four volumes published between 1785 and 1821; a second series contained nineteen volumes published between 1833 and 1946; no volumes appeared between 1947 and 1956, then in 1957 one further volume, called Series 3, Volume 24 was published.
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Mankind have ever found a state of society subservient to their comfort and happiness. Subjected to many wants, they have been able, by an union one with another, to obtain that supply, which would have bee impractical if each individual had stood alone; and invariable experience had taught, that the social bond is the greatest security against the numberless dangers and difficulties, to which they are exposed. Hence the many political or civil institutions, that have been formed in the world, which have been greater or less blessing to the persons, who have belonged to them, in proportion as those institutions have been framed with more or less wisdom, and the members of them have been more or less virtuous and prudent. Societies for promoting useful knowledge may be highly advantageous to communities, in which they are initiated. Men united together, and frequently meeting for the purpose of advancing the sciences, the arts, agriculture, manufactures and commerce, may oftentimes suggest such hints to one another, as may be improved to important ends: and such societies, by being the repositories of the observations and discoveries of the learned and ingenious, may, from time to time, furnish the world with useful publications, which might otherwise be lost ...This first volume of the Memoirs also contains: Statutes of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; A List of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1785, Presents Made to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences with the Names of the Donors; and James Bowdoin's Presidential Address "A Philosophical Discourse, Publickly Addressed to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, in Boston, on the Eighth of November, 1780; when the President was Inducted into Office."
We list the contents of this first volume relating to mathematics and astronomy at THIS LINK.
The Proceeding of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences began publication in 1848 with the first volume recording the proceedings of the Academy from May 1846 to May 1848. At the meeting on 12 August 1846 Benjamin Peirce gave a lengthy report on the astronomical observations which had been made by the Cambridge Observatory and communicated to him by William Cranch Bond, the Director. These observations included some made by Benjamin Peirce himself. In fact the volume contains astronomical information communicated by Benjamin Peirce to almost every meeting of the Academy. At the 12 August meeting there was an interesting report on "Henry Safford, the young Vermont mathematician." Safford (1836-1901) was a calculating prodigy who was ten years old at the time. He had been examined by Benjamin Peirce who reported [
... that the mere calculating faculty is not by any means as remarkable in him as it was in Zerah Colburn, but that it is rather incidental, as a part of extraordinary reflective powers.In fact Safford went on to study astronomy and served as director of the Hopkins Observatory at Williams College.
The present American Academy of Arts and Sciences is divided into five Classes, the first of which is 'Mathematical and Physical Sciences'. This Class consists of six Sections:
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But I lost sleep just thinking of you.
So pour me a cup,
I need to wake up,
I need me some love.
Now give it to me."
Love this song.
I want to be like this. Sittin' with the fishies, relaxing, not stressing about the future.
She is not worried how she will get up and out, she just sits.
She enjoys the moment….
Letting the chaos wash around you. But not consume you.
So happy to be back to the blogging world and focusing on this again. I have realized that blogging helps me live in the present.
I can't wait to share my summer adventures with you all and read about yours!
This weekend we have our favorite Farmer's market that I featured in my first ever written post on here.
And here, too.
So I will be sure to blog about that with many pictures again.
And I finished my class off with an 85, even though I am pretty sure I am pursuing other things.
After the relief of that was over, we attended a family wedding, which was beautiful. I did not take too many pictures, but we did manage to hit up the photo booth. [Classic.]
Next week we go on vacation on a camping extraordinaire trip to Virginia Beach and then to Ocean city, Maryland. While I will not be blogging while there, I can't wait to share the adventure with you later!
What kind of adventures are you getting into this summer?


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Pineal gland
The pineal gland is a small, pine-cone shaped structure considered to be part of the epithalamus. It is unpaired and situated in the midline.
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Gross anatomy
The pineal gland typically measures around 7 x 6 x 3 mm in size and is situated in a groove between the laterally placed thalamic bodies 1-6. Normal sizes have been described in the radiology literature up to 14 mm 9. Appearing to arise from the gland are two laminae. Above is the habenular commissure and below it is the posterior commissure.
- anteriorly: third ventricle (pineal recess)
- anterosuperiorly: habenular
- superiorly: internal cerebral veins, vein of Galen (posteriorly), stria medularis, splenium of the corpus callosum and velum interpositum
- posteroinferiorly: superior cerebellar cistern
- inferiorly: superior colliculi of the midbrain
- anteroinferiorly: posterior commissure
Blood supply
The pineal gland receives its blood supply from fine branches of the posterior choroidal arteries and drains superiorly by multiple branches eventually into the great cerebral vein of Galen 3.
Sympathetic: superior cervical ganglion
Parasympathetic: otic and pterygopalatine ganglion
Also has central innervation directly through the pineal stalk and also from the trigeminal ganglion which contains the neuropeptide PACAP (pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide)10.
The pineal gland arises during the seventh week of gestation from a thickening of the ependyma at the posterior-most aspect of the third ventricle 5.
The pineal gland produces melatonin which affects the modulation of wake/sleep patterns and photoperiodic (seasonal) functions. It is also thought to have a reproductive function and has been associated with the onset of puberty 7. Unlike much of the rest of the brain, it is not isolated from the body by the blood-brain barrier.
Radiographic features
Plain radiograph
The pineal gland has a predilection for calcification which is invariably histologically present in adults but rarely seen below the age of 10 years 6. Calcification is visible on lateral skull x-rays in 50-70% of adults 6. The habenular commissure also calcifies and is visible as a small C-shaped (open part posteriorly) density above and in front of the pineal calcification.
The far higher contrast resolution of CT means that calcification is almost always visible in the adult pineal gland, sometimes visible as specks embedded in a small soft tissue nodule similar in density to grey matter. In children under the age of 5 years, no calcification is present but prevalence increases rapidly with age, reaching a plateau at about 30 years of age 5.
MRI is the modality of choice for evaluating the pineal region. Although sensitivity to calcification on conventional sequences is poor, susceptibility weighted imaging (SWI) has similar diagnostic power to CT.
The gland appears as a small nodule of tissue with similar intensity to grey matter. As it lies outside the blood-brain barrier, it demonstrates vivid contrast enhancement.
Quiz questions
- 1. Gray's anatomy. 40th edition. [Edinburgh] : Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier, 2008. ISBN:0443066841. Read it at Google Books - Find it at Amazon
- 2. Schünke M, Schulte E, Ross LM et-al. Thieme atlas of anatomy, head and neuroanatomy. George Thieme Verlag. (2007) ISBN:3131421215. Read it at Google Books - Find it at Amazon
- 3. Arendt J, Arendt J. Melatonin and the Mammalian Pineal Gland. Springer. (1994) ISBN:0412536005. Read it at Google Books - Find it at Amazon
- 4. Afifi A, Bergman RA. Functional Neuroanatomy: Text and Atlas, 2nd Edition, Text and Atlas. McGraw-Hill Medical. (2005) ISBN:0071408126. Read it at Google Books - Find it at Amazon
- 5. Sumida M, Barkovich AJ, Newton TH. Development of the pineal gland: measurement with MR. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 1996;17 (2): 233-6. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol (abstract) - Pubmed citation
- 6. Buttler P. Applied radiological anatomy. Cambridge University Press. (1999) ISBN:0521481104. Read it at Google Books - Find it at Amazon
- 7. Harnsberger HR, Osborn AG, Ross J et-al. Diagnostic and Surgical Imaging Anatomy. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. (2006) ISBN:1931884293. Read it at Google Books - Find it at Amazon
- 8. Vígh B, Szél A, Debreceni K et-al. Comparative histology of pineal calcification. Histol. Histopathol. 1998;13 (3): 851-70. Pubmed citation
- 9. Smith AB, Rushing EJ, Smirniotopoulos JG. From the archives of the AFIP: lesions of the pineal region: radiologic-pathologic correlation. Radiographics. 2010;30 (7): 2001-20. Radiographics (full text) - doi:10.1148/rg.307105131 - Pubmed citation
- 10. Møller M, Baeres FM. The anatomy and innervation of the mammalian pineal gland. (2002) Cell and tissue research. 309 (1): 139-50. doi:10.1007/s00441-002-0580-5 - Pubmed
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Pineal region masses
The pineal region is anatomically complex and plays host to a number of unique masses and tumors as well as potentially affected by many entities seen more frequently elsewhere in the brain.
General reading
- cystic non-neoplastic lesions
- pineal parenchymal tumors
- germ cell tumors
- tumors also encountered in the pineal region
- pineal gland metastases
- vascular lesions
Anatomy: Brain
- grey matter
- white matter
cerebral hemisphere (telencephalon)
- cerebral lobes and gyri
- frontal lobe
- parietal lobe
occipital lobe
- occipital pole
- lingual gyrus
- fusiform gyrus (Brodmann area 37)
- calcarine (visual) cortex
- cuneus
temporal lobe
- temporal pole
- Heschl gyrus
- superior temporal gyrus
- middle temporal gyrus
- inferior temporal gyrus
- fusiform gyrus
- mesial temporal lobe
- lateral parietotemporal line
- basal forebrain
- limbic system
- insula
cerebral sulci and fissures (A-Z)
- calcarine fissure
- callosal sulcus
- central (Rolandic) sulcus
- cingulate sulcus
- circular sulcus
- collateral sulcus
- inferior frontal sulcus
- inferior occipital sulcus
- inferior temporal sulcus
- interhemispheric fissure
- intraparietal sulcus
- lateral (Sylvian) sulcus
- lateral occipital sulcus
- marginal sulcus
- occipitotemporal sulcus
- olfactory sulcus
- paracentral sulcus
- paraolfactory sulcus
- parieto-occipital fissure
- posterior parolfactory sulcus
- precentral sulcus
- preoccipital notch
- postcentral sulcus
- rhinal sulcus
- rostral sulcus
- subparietal sulcus
- superior frontal sulcus
- superior occipital sulcus
- superior temporal sulcus
- cortical histology
- cerebral lobes and gyri
white matter tracts
- commissures
- fornix
- forceps major
- forceps minor
- internal capsule
- external capsule
- extreme capsule
- corona radiata
- centrum semiovale
- medial lemniscus
optic radiation
- Meyer loop
- superior geniculocalcarine tract (Baum loop)
- subcortical u-fibers
- terminal zones of myelination
- deep grey matter
pituitary gland
- posterior pituitary and stalk (part of diencephalon)
- anterior pituitary
- inferior hypophyseal arterial circle
- diencephalon
- cerebral hemisphere (telencephalon)
- midbrain (mesencephalon)
- pons (part of metencephalon)
- medulla oblongata (myelencephalon)
- white matter
- grey matter (non-cranial nerve)
cerebellum (part of metencephalon)
- vermis
- cerebellar hemisphere
- cerebellar peduncles
cranial meninges (meninx primitiva)
- dura mater (pachymeninx)
- leptomeninges
- extradural space
- subdural space
- subarachnoid space
- blood supply of the meninges
- innervation of the meninges
- CSF spaces
ventricular system
- lateral ventricles
- interventricular foramen (of Monro)
- third ventricle
- aqueduct of Sylvius
- fourth ventricle
- foramen of Magendie
- foramina of Lushka
- tela choroidea
- cerebrospinal fluid
- subarachnoid cisterns
- ventricular system
cranial nerves (mnemonic)
- olfactory nerve (CN I)
- optic nerve (CN II)
- oculomotor nerve (CN III)
- trochlear nerve (CN IV)
- trigeminal nerve (CN V) (mnemonic)
- abducens nerve (CN VI)
- facial nerve (CN VII) (segments mnemonic | branches mnemonic)
- vestibulocochlear nerve (CN VIII)
- glossopharyngeal nerve (CN IX)
- vagus nerve (CN X)
- spinal accessory nerve (CN XI)
- hypoglossal nerve (CN XII)
- functional neuroanatomy
- CNS development
- cerebral vascular supply
- arteries
- vascular territories
circle of Willis
internal carotid artery (ICA) (segments)
- inferolateral trunk
- meningohypophyseal trunk
- capsular arteries (of McConnell) (variable)
- superior hypophyseal artery
- anterior cerebral artery (ACA)
- middle cerebral artery (MCA)
- posterior communicating artery (PCOM)
- ophthalmic artery
- anterior choroidal artery
vertebral artery
- posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA)
- basilar artery
normal variants
- intracranial arterial fenestration
- internal carotid artery (ICA)
- anterior cerebral artery (ACA)
- middle cerebral artery (MCA)
- posterior cerebral artery (PCA)
- basilar artery
- persistent carotid-vertebrobasilar artery anastomoses (mnemonic)
- internal carotid artery (ICA) (segments)
cerebral venous system
- dural venous sinuses
cerebral veins
superficial veins of the brain
- superior cerebral veins (superficial cerebral veins)
- inferior cerebral veins
- superficial middle cerebral vein
- superior anastomotic vein (of Trolard)
- inferior anastomotic vein (of Labbe)
- superficial veins of the brain
- deep veins of the brain
- normal variants
- arteries
- glymphatic pathway


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There is a clutch of companies who market DNA tests to children without the backing of real science. They hail mainly from Singapore and China and their marketing machines are getting slicker.
My Gene Profile has now created a reputable looking front-end which contrasts to their original flaky website featuring a mohican baby. They are based in Singapore, but list offices in the UK (Haslemere) and US (Connecticut).
Their newer homepage has an amusing picture of two scientists looking gobsmacked by a cyclohexane molecule (which I presume is meant to be a nucleotide). The rest of the site would also be hilarious if it wasn't for real. They offer an "Inborn Talent Genetic Test" and a "Disease Susceptibility Genetic Test". Drilling down to the talent test gives a list of 40 genes (2/3 of the way down this sprawling page), including such gems as:
Propensity for Teenage Romance Gene
Drawing Gene
Self Detoxifying Gene
The new URL still hides links to scam-like behaviour, for example add /vip to bring up information sent to targeted individuals last year:
Make Biggest Commission Paycheck by Riding On World's Fastest Growing Industry: DNA and Genetic Market!Another Singaporean offering, Map My Gene, sells the same two tests. Francis Collins and Robert Plomin (Professor, Kings College London), are quoted as offering their support. The company ask for a copy of your passport or identity papers to be submitted along with your DNA sample – a frightening combination to part with.
Again from Singapore, Magic Fidler is a company running children's music classes with a sideline in DNA testing to determine musical ability. The number of tests offered is a familiar sounding 40:
For $2,000 the scientific results can pinpoint your child's strengths and weaknesses in 40 areas, including IQ, EQ, memory as well as artistic and athletic abilities. For $2,800, you can get the DNA Test plus 12 weekly music classes.The music teaching may well be wonderful, but the science is not. The site testimonials summarise all that is wrong with this approach (based on children tested in January 2010):
"My first reaction was: 'Are you sure this is my child?' Kiran (aged 7) scored very high in intelligence and creativity, but I always thought he was just average....While he likes singing to pop songs, he's never expressed an interest in music lessons. So I was surprised that he has a good sense of rhythm and is supposedly good at learning different instruments."
"What surprised me was that it didn't show up in his DNA that he has a flair in maths. I always thought that he is quick at understanding concepts, which even the elder sister has difficulty understanding."
"Since we received the results, my husband and I had many interesting discussions about our girl (aged 2). Isn't she supposed to be talented in arts? (She's always doodling!) Well, it's not in her DNA. Didn't she learn to walk only after 15 months old? (A friend's kid of the same age was already running around.) Yet, the results showed she has a natural flair for sports, with high endurance gene."The music school act on the spurious DNA results:
"If the child's DNA results show that he has strong genetic propensity for music and creativity, for instance, he might be put in a more intensive class, which teaches composition skills."The tragedy is that such results (which may as well come from a random number generator) lead parents to dismiss the best way of finding out about their children's talents – their own observations.
Finally, a couple more quotes to further illustrate the potential influence of such information. Firstly from The Genetic Center who sell a "Child Talent Gene test":
"This child is very thoughtful and focused," Shanghai Biochip's Healthcare Director Huang Xinhua explained while looking over a girl's test results. "I suggest she go into management."Secondly, the American Atlas Sports Genetics who sell a test based on the ACTN3 gene:
"Although, my daughter is only 9 she now knows that she had a the Sprint, Power, & Strength advantage which we can use to market her Athletic Career and hopefully a wonderful scholarship from this process."Note that the parent wants to market the child – has genetic testing turned her into a commodity?
For now, such websites will only affect those credulous enough to believe the manufactured science. But the genomics juggernaut is on a roll, bringing with it more robust links between personality traits and DNA sequence. When predictive testing finally comes of age, should we allow children to be tested? And if so, how will we ensure that eager parents are aware of the caveats, subtleties and statistics that hang off each data point?


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Walking in the sacred forests of the monks of Camaldoli, in suggestive woods and places where St. Francesco from Assisi spent part of his life will be a wonderful experience.
Enjoy a wonderful week in the characteristic little town of Bagno di Romagna, built by the Romans at the heart of Foreste Casentinesi National Park, between Emilia Romagna and Tuscany Regions.
Accommodation in an historical building completely renovated as a 4**** Hotel and SPA.
Those who love hot spring water can enjoy the beautiful spa of this ancient thermal bath.
Duration: 5 nights/6 days
1st Day: Arrival at Bologna Airport and transfer to Bagno di Romagna. Welcome drink, evening meal and overnight in Hotel.
2nd Day: (about 3 hours)
Short transfer to Camaldoli, for a wonderful day immersed in nature, walking thought the sacred forests of the Camaldolese monks. Discover two magical places with their history, art and charm: the Monastery and the Hermitage of Camaldoli. Visit of the monks' ancient Pharmacy with its precious furniture. Return to the hotel in the afternoon, evening meal and overnight.
3rd Day: (about 3 hours)
A beautiful excursion departing on foot from the Hotel, along the ancient Via Romea, which connected these places to Rome. Enjoy the wonderful landscape, mostly unchanged since.
4th Day: (about 3 hours)
Short transfer to Rimbocchi, departure for an easy hike untill the Sanctuary of La Verna, founded by St. Francesco d´Assisi after receiving the stigmata. Visit of the Basilica of Santa Maria degli
Angeli, the Chapel of the Stigmata and the museum.
5th Day: (about 3 hours)
Short round trip through the forests of Bagno di Romagna. Possibility for a trip to Ridracoli, with its beautiful artificial lake.
6th Day: Transfer to Bologna airport and departure.
What's included:
5 nights in double room on B&B basis at 4**** Spa Hotel – price per person sharing -
Free use of the Nordic walking and bike equipment
A set of hiking maps
Private transfer from/to airport of Bologna
All transfers as outlined in the itinerary.
What's not included:
HB supplement €70.oo (entire stay)
Lunch package: € 50.00 (entire stay)
Single person supplement for the entire stay: € 70.00 (low season) 100.00 (high season)
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Nominate Your Coach TODAY!
The Ontario Coaching Excellence Awards celebrates the dedication and commitment of exemplary individuals who inspire, innovate and share knowledge of sport with others. The Awards recognize the importance of leadership, performance and the value of human insight which are all integral to great coaching. A coach is nominated in one of the following six categories:
Grass Roots (1 Male, 1 Female)
Coaches recognized in this category are inspirational role models in the community. The coaching focus would be on introducing children and youth to a sport, developing fundamental movement skills while creating a positive environment for healthy development and instilling a life-long love to be physically active and stay involved in sport. A coach in this category would measure their daily success in the number of smiles achieved.
Good-to-Great (1 Male, 1 Female)
The coaching focus is on performance excellence and competing to win. The coach would be recognized as the primary coach who identifies talented individuals; who creates a training environment that further develops athletic skills and abilities to a higher level of success in competition over a period of time.
Trailblazer Coach
The Trailblazer coach is an innovative out-of-the-box thinker who inspires others to follow and has made a difference in their sport or for their athletes. Whether coaching a community rep team or top performing provincial athletes, the coach who pushes the envelope, invents new approaches to old challenges and breaks through barriers should be nominated for this award.
The "Aboriginal Impact" Award recognizes a coach who has made a significant impact by advancing the Aboriginal Sport system/community in Ontario. Over a sustained period of time they have demonstrated the value of physical, emotional and mental well-being of Aboriginal peoples of Ontario through physical activity and sport. Examples in this category include success in reaching out to and actively welcoming Aboriginal athletes to an existing team or sport program, introducing a new sport program to an Aboriginal community, or a coach who advocates for Aboriginal cultural and traditional practices in their coaching.
Andy Higgins Lifetime Achievement Award
An outstanding coach who has made a significant contribution to coaching in Ontario over a long sustained period of time—20+ years. Andy Higgins, an Olympic decathlon coach, an educator and all around good human being, has devoted his lifetime to instilling positive values, citizen development and making a difference in people's lives through sport. A coach who dreams big, looks for the possibilities, and focuses on a lasting legacy would be an ideal award recipient in this category.
School Sport Coach – Selected by OFSAA …………………… ……………
The selection of recipients (1 Male and 1 Female teacher-coach) is based on their unique contribution to sport through continuous development of new coaches. The nominated coach must have influenced the development of new coaches and have shown evidence of program building as well as encouraging athletes to give back to sport. .
Interested in nominating your coach?
Nominations for the 2017 Ontario Coaching Excellence Awards are currently being accepted. Download the nomination form below and return to Eric McLoughlin at email@example.com by Thursday June 29, 2017 at 4:00pm.
Nomination Form
Grassroots Coach Award (1 Male and 1 Female recipient)
- Two award recipients will be selected in this category; a dedicated male coach and a dedicated female coach who primarily coach youth or children.
Good-to-Great Coach Award (1 Male and 1 Female recipient)
- Two award recipients will be selected in this category; an outstanding male coach and an outstanding female coach who have coached athletes that have achieved a high standard of performance in competitive sport.
- Up to one outstanding individual who has made things better for their sport for years to come will be selected in this category.
- One award will be given to a coach who leads with vision, resolve and courage to challenge the status quo.
- One award will be given to a coach who has made a significant impact within the Aboriginal sport community in Ontario.
Andy Higgins Lifetime Achievement Award
- One award will be given to an outstanding coach who has made a significant contribution to coaching in Ontario over 20+ years.
Download and return the completed nomination form to Eric McLoughlin at firstname.lastname@example.com by Thursday June 29, 2017 at 4:00pm.
The following are the winners of 2016 Ontario Coaching Excellence Awards: (Click to see their videos)
- Colleen Rasmussen-Taylor – Grass Roots Coach (Female), Softball, Port Perry
- David Currie – Grass Roots Coach (Male), Hockey, Sarnia
- Ken MacDonald – School Sport Coach (Male), Toronto
- Jo-Anne Dexter – School Sport Coach (Female), Cornwall
- Laura McPhie – Good-to-Great Coach (Female), Swimming, Guelph
- Terry Radchenko & Ross Ristuccia – Good-to-Great Coach (Male), Athletics, Toronto
- Craig Blackman – Everyone Matters Coach, Athletics, Toronto
- Kevin Sandy – Aboriginal Impact Coach, Lacrosse, Ohsweken
- Graeme Williams – Trailblazer Coach, Squash, Windsor
- Casey Curtis – Andy Higgins Lifetime Achievement Award, Tennis, Markham


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You know that feeling you get when you meet someone amazing. Your eyes would meet across the room and you would feel sparks even from afar. When this happens you would think nothing can put a damper on your relationship. But what would happen if one has to move to another state or country? In that case, some couples may opt to break up with each other. But there are many who would not let distance become an obstacle in their relationship. Therefore that is when they would begin a long distance relationship. We have all heard various stories about long distance relationships. Some would have been success stories and others not so much. However, from all these stories you would be able to gather that long distance relationship are not easy. If you want the relationship to work both the individuals should be invested in it.
Know That It Can Work
Many would tell you not to even invest in a short term service apartment Singapore. That is because everyone would tell you that long-distance relationships would not work out. However, this is not something that you should believe. Instead, be determined to make this relationship work. That is because if you go with a poor attitude you will never succeed.
Talk Often But Not Too Often
When you are in a long distance relationship you think that you need to talk to each other every day. That is true because if you are in a relationship you should talk at least once a day. But these conversations shouldn't generally last for hours and hours. Should you really talk to each other for 4 hours every day? If you do so then that is a sign that you are talking too often. Instead what you can do is touch base with each other every day through text. But once or twice a week you can call each other and talk for hours. This way you would not only be able to have meaningful conversations. But you would also not feel smothered by this relationship. This would then give you both the space that you require.
Learn To Communicate
When having a long distance relationship it is crucial for both the individuals to communicate. That is because if you don't then the other won't know what is happening. The only way you can resolve conflicts is by communicating with each other. Therefore it is important for you to remember this fact.
Long distance relationships are hard. But if you follow these tips you would be able to receive some assistance.


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Shawerma (شاورمة) is one of those beloved street foods that is very difficult to replicate at home. It is known as guss (كص عراقي) to Iraqis. What it is, is stacked fillets of chicken or beef on a huge skewer the length of a man's arm, that have been marinated in a special mix for a day (sometimes two), and are cooked on a revolving spit.
The golden crispy exterior that gets cooked is skillfully shaved off, exposing the next layer which will undergo the same crisping process. The shaved meat is then either stuffed in a sandwich or served on a platter with a variety of accompaniments, typically consisting of garlic sauce, french fries, pickles, grilled onions and tomatoes, and onion-sumac relish. This recipe is adapted to replicate the famous guss in a humble pan-fried at-home manner. Choose fatty steak that is thinly sliced for best results.
500g thinly sliced fatty steak
1 small onion, sliced
3 cloves garlic, chopped
1/4 cup lemon juice
1/4 cup apple vinegar
1 tsp 7-spice powder
1 tsp salt, and pepper
1/2 tsp ground cloves
1 cup plain yogurt
1/4 cup olive oil
Put all the ingredients except of the meat in a blender and blend until smooth and homogenous.
Place the thinly sliced fatty steak in a glass bowl (a metal bowl will react to the acidity of the lemon and vinegar so avoid it) and pour over it the yogurt marinade.
Stir well to coat all the meat, cover in plastic and refrigerate overnight or 24 hours.
To cook, heat a pan over high heat with a dash or two of oil. The pan must be very hot when you put the meat so it will immediately sear, thus sealing in the natural juices and not dry out.
Do not over-crowd the pan and sear the meat to a golden brown in batches.
Serve with some pita bread, onion-sumac relish, and a variety or pickles.
صحة و عافية


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Stop Going Through The Motions!
In loving others as our Creator does . . . Do we believe we will impact the lives of others if we learn all the right words but never do anything to show His unconditional love? Does merely talking about the love we have for others indicate we have it? It is very visible that our God-talk without God-acts is shameless nonsense. Something for us to consider today. ~ Joseph Stingley


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Instead of A-list Hollywood actors or world-famous artists, everyday heroes are the stars at the Daily Mirror's Pride of Britain Awards in partnership with TSB.
The awards recognise those who go the extra mile in their community, or quick-thinking heroes who save the lives of others.
And the Daily Mirror's Pride of Britain double decker bus rolled into the Sage Gateshead on Tuesday afternoon to look for nominees to represent Newcastle at November's ceremony.
It will rumble through the UK on a two-week tour to stop at cities and encourage people to recommend those deserving the prestigious award.
The award ceremony was launched in 1999 and its purpose is to celebrate and recognise everyday heroes, said celebrity host Amanda Byram, who is on tour with the bus.
"There is no other award ceremony like this," Amanda said.
"These awards are about people that are putting others before themselves. It's really people performing selfless acts and putting their lives on the line for others.
"They shine the light on the good that is in Britain."
Members of the Birtley Boxing Club rallied around to nominate their coach Graeme Rutherford for his dedication.
Joe Laws, 22, is a boxer with the club and won an English title belt in the 69kg weight division in December. He said the club was nominating Graeme because he was always there for the athletes.
"I've been to gyms around the world and he is just the best," Joe said. "He is always willing to help you out."
The award ceremony is widely popular and celebrities are often involved, including Prince Charles, David Beckham and Cheryl. It has also led to the Pride of Ireland Awards, which Amanda hosts.
Amanda said: "The award winners are real people. They are the real heroes of society."
There are various awards to be won, including TSB Community Partner Award, ITV Fundraiser of the Year, Good Morning Britain Young Fundraiser of the Year, This Morning Emergency Services Award, Outstanding Bravery, Child/Teenager of Courage, Lifetime Achievement and Special Recognition.
To nominate someone, visit www.prideofbritain.com/nominate .


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What if naive, every-day stories aren't the most relatable?
What if we are meant to go off the beaten path,
beat the shadows, the moon, the sheets?
What if calling for yourself to come out in twilight
is like searching for a piece
when you should have already found the puzzle?
What if my generation unfollowed me,
passed me up for a cheap beer
and some Buzzfeed on the side?
What if I am as guilty as the next
for my wandering mind, childish antics, pressing time?
What if we must find ourselves first
in another to form the puzzle, the title, the peace?
July 15, 2014


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Following are the day's biggest winners and losers. Find out why shares of Cephalon and Owens Corning popped while Cooper Tire and Allergan dropped.
POPS (stocks that jumped higher)
Cephalon (CEPH) popped 3%. The FDA voted against broadening the treatment options for the biotech's pain medication Fentora, but analyst speculation that the drug could eventually be approved for non-cancer pain sent shares higher. – Interesting, says Pete Najarian.


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Course: INF 398R
The Master's Report is a substantive, publishable-quality paper synthesizing a domain or area of investigation that demonstrates familiarity with major concepts and issues in a theoretical and rigorous manner. Topics may include concepts, theories, and research relevant to the field of interest to the student and approved by the faculty supervisor and likely will entail an exploration of problems and professional activities emerging from a student's program of study.
The Master's Report provides an opportunity to:
- Develop greater understanding of a topic related to the field
- Explore problems and issues encountered during studies that require in-depth review and analysis
- Reflect student learning by serving as the final product of several years of study and reflection
- Demonstrate that the student is an insightful consumer of research, and can evaluate theory and research in the field
- Develop applications to a significant problem
- Represent a synthesis and application of the literature on a topic
- Apply the critical evaluation of empirical studies on the topic
The completed thesis should be formatted in accordance with the requirements of the Office of Graduate Studies. See Office of Graduate Studies for forms and deadlines as well as their FAQ on format requirements.
The Report consists of a document with a minimum of 10,000 words and supporting materials as necessary.
Students must have completed 27 hours of coursework AND be entering their final semester.
Registration Requirements:
- Identify a faculty supervisor and a 2nd faculty reader
- Complete INF 397C: Research in Information Studies, in an earlier semester
- Enroll as a student pursuing a Master of Science in Information Studies
- Register in INF 398R (Master's Report) by way of the Graduate Coordinator
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Penuche is nothing more than brown sugar fudge. Half the appeal of penuche (pa-new-che) is the slightly sugary, grainy texture. It has rich caramel, vanilla, butterscotch flavors. It's not hard to make, but it does take a bit of time to create. I've been looking for a good recipe for a while, and I found this one on Pinterest (my guilty pleasure).
I live in a family of penuche lovers.
It's really quite interesting.
Most of them eschew sweets of any kind for most of the year, and at the holidays they turn into absolute sugarmongers. Penuche qualifies as pure sugar... just check out the ingredients below.
I'm all about sweets, but this is a treat best eaten in moderation. I'm also thinking that your dentist would like you to brush after consuming... just sayin'.
Yield: 1 8×8-inch pan of penuche
Ingredients for penuche fudge:
2 1/2 cups brown sugar
2 1/2 cups white sugar
2 cups whole milk or half and half
1 cup butter
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
1/2 cup toasted, finely chopped pecans or walnuts (optional)
Method for penuche fudge:
Line a 8×8-inch baking pan with parchment, leaving 2-inches overhang on two opposing sides. Make sure to fold the paper into the corners of the pan.
In a heavy saucepan over medium-low flame, heat brown sugar, white sugar, milk, butter, and salt to 236F (soft ball stage) while stirring constantly. This should take 20-25 minutes.
Pour penuche into the bowl of a stand mixer. Beat on medium for 2-4 minutes, or until fudge is thick and smooth. Lower speed to low and add vanilla extract and chopped nuts.
Using a spatula greased with butter, spread penuche fudge into lined pan, smoothing out the top. Refrigerate for 30 minutes before cutting. If refrigerated, penuche will keep in a sealed container for up to a week. For maximum freshness, don't cut until ready to serve.
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Public talks that resonate with Ken Burns' Seeing, Searching, Being documentary, a collaboration with philosopher William Segal that probes into what defines our true meaning in the world. William Segal (1904 – 2000) was a philosopher, publisher, writer, and painter who searched relentlessly and compassionately for meaning in the chaotic and distracted time we call the 20th Century. The student of such diverse masters as G.I. Gurdjieff and D.T. Suzuki, Segal helped bring Eastern and Western spiritual traditions together, always stressing what connected humanity rather than what differentiated it. In the last decade of his life, Segal befriended the documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, and the two collaborated on an interior trilogy to ask the question: what is it that defines our true meaning in the world? William Segal quotes from Intense City blog posts: "When one is still and listens, one begins to be in touch with a mysterious element that is within each of us, which can transform and shape us and can help to transform the world." — William Segal obituary in the New York Times "We can't say why we search, except that there seems to be an innate need, in each human being, to know who one is, what we're here for, how to live more poetically." — William Segal, in Ken Burns' "Seeing, Searching, and Being"
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On the previous Sunday (December 6th), we celebrated the Independence Day of Finland. For me that day is always pretty similar as mom and I have created a tradition of baking Christmas cookies & tarts and watching the President's Independence Day Reception on TV. It's also traditional to light up two blue&white candles exactly at 6 pm.
|Baking Christmas cookies.
|My Christmas tarts look a bit different this year.
I have been preparing for Christmas and getting myself on a great Christmas mood by:
1. Making some Christmas cards
2. Admiring a house that is famous for its Christmas lights (in Janakkala, Finland)
3. Staying fond of Christmas lights and other decorations
4. Being optimistic about getting snow for the Christmas Eve
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C.S. Lewis Quote #2Monday, August 06, 2012
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Rolex Daytona 16519 Sodalite & Diamond Index Dial
Rolex Daytona 16519 powered by a Zenith movement and adorned with a beautiful Sodalite and diamond index dial. Two details make this a special Daytona. First its automatic movement and second its dial. Zeniths are fast becoming the most appreciated and sought after Daytona's, as collectors are moving past the manual Daytona phase. The dial on the watch is made from Sodalite, a precious stone not common to dials. The Daytona comes with its original blue alligator strap, caseback sticker, and original Rolex issued paperwork.
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Brand: Rolex
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Year: 1999
Metal: 18K White Gold
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Liverpool vs Arsenal team news and line-ups: Alexis Sanchez DROPPED by Arsene Wenger, Jordan Henderson out with foot injury
SunSport brings you all the latest information ahead of this weekend's crunch Premier League clash
LIVERPOOL will be without skipper Jordan Henderson when Arsenal visit Anfield on Saturday.
The England international missed the heavy 3-1 defeat to Leicester City on Monday night with a foot injury.
But Henderson has failed to recover in time as the Gunners look to avenge their opening day defeat to Liverpool at the Emirates.
Daniel Sturridge is ruled out with a hip injury, with Roberto Firmino keeping his place in attack.
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However, star playmaker Santi Cazorla has been ruled out of the rest of the season, while Mohamed Elneny remains sidelined with an ankle problem.
But key defender Laurent Koscielny replaces Gabriel Paulista at the back after making good progress from the injury suffered during the Champions League first-leg defeat to Bayern Munich.
Where can I watch it?
The match will be shown live on BT Sport 1.
What time is it on?
Liverpool play Arsenal at Anfield on Saturday March 4, with kick-off at 5.30pm.
- Liverpool are unbeaten in their last three home Premier League games against Arsenal (W1 D2 L0).
- There have been 16 goals scored in those three games at Anfield at an average of 5.3 per game, with the most recent game there ending in 3-3 draw last season.
- The Reds have only kept two clean sheets in their last 22 Premier League games against the Gunners and none in their 10 meetings at Anfield since a 1-0 win in February 2006.
- Jurgen Klopp is aiming to become the first Liverpool manager since Gerard Houllier in 1999/2000 to do a Premier League home/away double over Arsene Wenger in a single season.
- Klopp has exactly the same record as Liverpool manager after 56 Premier League games as Brendan Rodgers (P56 W27 D16 L13 and 97 points).
- Olivier Giroud has scored five goals in his last seven Premier League appearances against Liverpool, including three in his last two at Anfield.
- The only Arsenal player in Premier League history with more Premier League goals versus Liverpool than Olivier Giroud (5) is Thierry Henry (8). Andrey Arshavin has five alongside Giroud.
- Should Liverpool win this game then it would be their 50th home league win over Arsenal. As it stands they've only beaten Man City (50), Newcastle (53) and Aston Villa (55) more often in home league games in their history.
- Four of the 61 chances that Mesut Ozil has created this season have been assists (6.6%). Last season after 22 appearances, he had created 98 goalscoring chances and 16 of these were converted by the recipient of his pass (16.3%).
- Arsenal (13) have won more than double the amount of points from their seven Premier League games in 2017 so far than Liverpool (6).
- This fixture has seen 16 goals scored in the 90th minute or later in the Premier League; more than any other fixture in the history of the competition.


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Guide to the Daintree Rainforest
The Daintree Rainforest is a unique, ancient and fascinating part of the planet. The World Heritage Listed Daintree Rainforest is located north of Cairns in the tropical land of Queensland. It is famous throughout the world and brings more than 400,000 visitors of travellers to Australia annually. Here's a quick overview of just a few of the things that make this remarkable part of Australia truly special.
Why is the Daintree Rainforest Special?
It is bursting with spectacular wildlife and is one of the most biologically diverse rainforests in the world. With birds, reptiles, insects, and marsupials, this rainforest holds a huge percentage of the entire country's animal population. 30% of Australia's frog population, 65% of butterfly and bat and 18% of birds. Some species found nowhere else in the world. Its diverse range in even one type of creature is astounding. For example, it is home to roughly over 12,000 different insect species.
The plants are just as interesting, with over three thousand types of plant species existing in the Daintree Rainforest. There are both unique and ancient plants scattered within. The 'Idiot Fruit' is one of the most ancient plants amidst the rainforest, a beautiful pink flowering plant that thrived when dinosaurs wandered the earth. With some of the biggest trees, the tallest tree is a whopping forty-four meter, almost the same size as the statue of liberty. As well as exotic plants, including the Black Sapote, otherwise known as the Chocolate Pudding Fruit, a unique type of fruit that tastes like chocolate! Now that's special!
Facts About the Daintree Rainforest
It's the world's oldest rainforest
Yep. It's true. The Daintree is an estimated 180 million years old. This is tens of millions of years older than the Amazon rainforest. The Kuky Yalanji people, a community of the aboriginals, have reportedly lived within the area for thousands of years. For a bit more perspective on just how old this is, the dinosaurs died out some 65 million years ago. In many ways, taking a tour of this part of the world is about as close as you will ever get to hopping inside a time machine. There are ancient plant lineages here that date back to the Early Jurassic period of the Gondwana supercontinent, and are found nowhere else.
It's a world heritage area
Most of the Daintree Rainforest is contained within the Wet Tropics region of Queensland. UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, has recognised the unique value of this part of the world by proclaiming it a world heritage area. Their reasons for doing this include the area's exceptional natural beauty, the diverse living record of ancient flora contained here (and nowhere else), the incredible diversity of plants and animals contained here, including many rare species, and the fact that this area of tropical rainforest remains rather untouched compared to many lowland tropical rainforests around the world.
It's right next to another world heritage area
The Daintree Rainforest is right smack bang next to the Great Barrier Reef. This is the only spot in the world where two world heritage sites meet. The Great Barrier Reef is spectacular in its own right – it's an international icon of vividly coloured aquatic lifeforms. The reef itself stretches for 2300 kilometres, making it easily the world's largest living structure, and the only terrestrial lifeform that can be seen from outer space. Do you really want to go your whole life without seeing this up close and personal? The close proximity of the Daintree Rainforest to the Reef makes it an easy decision to base yourself in Cairns for a few days and tour both of these unique and spectacular natural wonders in the same trip.
Incredible animal diversity
The Daintree Rainforest is home for a great many weird and wonderful critters. There's the White-lipped Tree Frog, the world largest tree frog, which sometimes barks like a dog and sometimes mews like a cat. There's also the Ulysses Butterfly, a bright metallic blue rainforest flyer with a wingspan of 14 centimetres across. Then there's the Bennett's Tree Kangaroo, a small tree-climbing marsupial that's kinda as close as any marsupial gets to being a monkey. The impressively massive Cassowary also lives here, with its brightly coloured neck and idiosyncratic behaviours.
It's huge
At around 1,200 square kilometres, this is the largest contiguous area of rainforest in Australia. This is large as New York City, and approximately 14 times the size of the island of Manhattan. The entire Wet Tropics world heritage area as a whole is a massive 12,000 square kilometres. This is more than 16 times the size of the island of Singapore, an area of the world home to five and a half million people.
It gets so much rain
Australia is a notoriously dry continent. Australia is widely known as a land of droughts and deserts and shifting, sunblasted sands. The facts support this popular image too: it's the driest of all the continents that support human settlement, with only Antarctica being drier. The Daintree Rainforest, however, is a very rainy exception to this parched rule. It gets an average of 2013 mm of rain every year. This is more rain than London gets in three years.
It's named for Richard Daintree
Richard Daintree was a 19th century Englishman who migrated to Australia and did much to explore and photograph North Queensland. After migrating to Australia in 1852 and briefly participating in the Victorian gold rush, he later accepted an appointment in 1854 in the Victorian Geological Survey. He later returned to England to study assaying, and in this time also developed an interest in photography. By 1857 he was back in Australia, working for the Victorian Geological Survey until 1865, when he bought into a pastoral propery in Burdekin in north Queensland. Over the next few years he discovered indications of gold in this part of the country, which attracted prospectors up north and promoted development of Queensland's gold resources. In 1869 he was appointed Government Geologist for North Queensland, and photographed the new Cape River goldfields, which provide an amazing record of what life was like in this time and place. Richard Daintree returned England in 1876 in poor health, and died of Tuberculosis a short couple of years later. Not only is the Daintree Rainforest named for him, but also are the town of Daintree, Daintree National Park, the Daintree River and the Daintree Reef.
It's under threat
Though the Daintree Rainforest remains fairly untouched as compared to other lowland tropical rainforest areas around the world, there are unfortunately several serious threats to this irreplacable part of the world. Climate change poses a huge threat to the Daintree Rainforest – even just a 1 degree change in average temperature in this part of the world could see many important species lose huge parts of their habitat here, and this would in turn impact the rest of the rainforest ecosystem. Extinction also threatens the area – a vast number of plant species in this rainforest are either entirely or mostly reliant on just one endangered bird, the cassowary, for the distribution of their seeds. Cassowary numbers are low and their continued existence is not assured. If this bird does not survive then neither shall the incredible trees and other plants that rely on it for their reproduction, and this will in turn impact other animals that need these plants for their habitat. Introduced species present further problems: feral animals prey upon natives and compete with them for food sources, while weeds compete with and replace native plants, which reduces habitats for native animals.
With such an array of threats facing the Daintree Rainforest, it's important to make the effort to see it while you still can!
Massive tropical trees
The stunning array of spectacular plants and animals of the Daintree Rainforest includes some terrifically tall trees. The Bull Kauri is one, a very rare conifer endemic to north Queensland and threatened by habitat loss. The Daintree Rainforest is home to a couple of these trees that stand over 40 metres. The tallest of these is 44.2 metres tall, which is roughly the same height as the Statue of Liberty. This rainforest is also home to Bunya Pines, another massive tree that can reach 40 metres in height.
Primitive Flowering Plants
A trip to the Daintree Rainforest is the closest thing you can get to hopping inside a time machine, so it makes sense that you'd find some of the most ancient examples of early flowering plants only here. These are incredibly valuable to our understanding of how flowering plants first developed, and are fascinating in their own right too. 12 of world's 19 primitive plant families are found in the Daintree Rainforest. The Idiospermum – commonly referred to as the "idiot fruit" – is one of the oldest forms of flowering plant that is found only in the Daintree Rainforest. Some also refer to this tree as "the green dinosaur", as it probably dates from 120 million years ago. This makes it almost twice as old as the famous Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Stunning scenery
Most of all, the Daintree Rainforest is absolutely gorgeous. Streams, waterfalls, vividly coloured animals and exotic plants meet white sandy beaches and the achingly breathtaking ocean at the north Queensland coastline. Only 2 hours drive from Cairns, it's rare that such a largely untouched wilderness can be so conveniently located by the comforts and amenities of civilisation. Seeing this part of the planet up close and personal is definitely one for the bucket list.
The Gateway
The Daintree Rainforest is the gateway to the Cape Tribulation. The Cape Tribulation is a coastal area within the National park and combines its unspoiled beaches with the beautiful reefs as well as the rainforest. It is a sliver of paradise and is untouched by urban development. When travelling to Queensland, a trip to Cape Tribulation is not possible without seeing the magnificence of the Daintree Rainforest.
Check out the Top Things to Do in the Daintree Rainforest.