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Azulene is a naturally occurring substance that functions as a pigment in many types of plants, fungi and invertebrate organisms. The ingredient was first isolated in the 15th century from the German chamomile herb, which is still a common source of azulene. By the end of the 19th century, scientists had discovered azulene in other plant life, including yarrow and wormwood.
Septimus Piesse is credited for giving azulene its name in 1863. The word is derived from the Spanish word "azul," which means "blue" and was chosen by Piesse because of azulene's striking, brilliant blue color. In its natural form, azulene is an oily liquid and will not dissolve in or mix with water. Sometimes azulene is referred to as guaiazulene.
The most common use of azulene in skin care products is as a natural coloring agent. When added to products, azulene imparts a blue tint that enhances the look of a formula. Azulene is found in a wide variety of beauty products, including soaps, cleansers and moisturizers. It is also contained in hair care products and treatments, including conditioners, chemicals used for permanents and straightening and hair dyes.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lists azulene as exempt from certification when used as a color additive. This means that products that contain azulene do not have to go through the FDA's usual testing and approval process prior to being sold on the market. The regulations do prevent azulene from being used in products intended for the eyes and lips, meaning that it cannot be employed as a pigment for eye shadows, eyeliners or lip colors.
The reason for the FDA's decision to not further regulate the use of azulene is due to its overall safety. The ingredient does not contain lead, arsenic, mercury or other toxins and is not known to pose a risk for genetic mutations or cellular damage that can lead to cancer. Generally, azulene is well tolerated when used as a coloring agent and not likely to cause hypersensitivity reactions the way synthetic blue dyes can. For this reason, azulene is one of the most commonly used colorants in products designed for those with sensitive skin.
Clinical studies of azulene have shown that the ingredient offers benefits beyond enhancing the color of skin care products. Azulene extracted from chamomile is known to reduce inflammation in the skin tissue. Inflammation occurs anytime the immune system releases chemicals to combat infections or to protect the skin from foreign molecules. The chemicals that comprise azulene mildly inhibit the actions of the immune system, resulting in a reduction in redness and swelling.
The anti-inflammatory benefits of azulene have led to its inclusion in formulas meant to address acne. In these products, azulene helps to alleviate the redness from blemishes, allowing the complexion to clear up more quickly. Azulene is also used in moisturizers and skin care treatment serums, creams and lotions that are intended for stressed or damaged skin. When added to a skin care product for its anti-inflammatory actions, azulene may be accompanied by alpha-bisabolol, another ingredient obtained from chamomile, which helps to calm skin irritation.
As an antioxidant, azulene has the ability to shield the skin from damage from free radicals. Although it cannot prevent the skin from ever aging, azulene can minimize symptoms associated with more mature skin and help reduce the likelihood that fine lines and wrinkles will develop prematurely. By neutralizing free radicals, azulene can also help prevent the cellular damage that causes skin discoloration from occurring due to sun exposure.
Chamomile and its derivatives, including azulene, are also known to rejuvenate skin cells to help address cellular damage that has already occurred. Additionally, azulene has mild antibacterial properties and is sometimes used in natural medicine as an ingredient in antiseptics.


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The Naked and Famous – Punching In A Dream
|4:18:51 PM, Saturday, February 04, 2012
Two New Moons Found Orbiting Jupiter
|1:17:38 PM, Saturday, February 04, 2012
"(National Geographic News) Two new moons have been found orbiting Jupiter, bringing the Jovian family count up to 66 natural satellites, astronomers revealed this week.
Currently known as S/2011 J1 and S/2011 J2, the new moons were first identified in images acquired with the Magellan-Baade Telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile on September 27, 2011.
The objects are among the smallest moons yet discovered in the solar system, each measuring only about a kilometer (0.62 mile) wide.
Unlike Jupiter's four large Galilean moons, which are visible from Earth with even small backyard telescopes, both new moons are dim and very distant from the planet, taking about 580 and 726 days to complete their orbits.
Scientists had previously discovered new Jovian satellites in 2010, and astronomers think there may be more—lots more.
"The satellites are part of the outer retrograde swarm of objects around Jupiter," said Scott Sheppard, of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institute for Science in Washington, D.C., who reported the discovery.
Retrograde satellites are moons that orbit "backward"—in the opposite direction of a planet's axial rotation. Including the two new moons, the Jupiter swarm features 52 known retrograde satellites, which are all relatively tiny.
"It is likely there are about a hundred satellites of this size" in the swarm, Sheppard said.
New Moons Are Likely Captured Bodies
Like most of Jupiter's other retrograde satellites, S/2011 J1 and J2 are also classified as irregular moons, because they orbit far from the planet and have highly eccentric and inclined orbits.
Due to their odd orbits, the moons are likely asteroid or comet pieces that were long ago captured by Jupiter's gravity rather than developing in place during the formation of the planet itself.
"Because these outer irregular satellites were captured during the solar system's early years, they can give us insight into the planet's formation and evolution process," Sheppard added.
As far as more imaginative names are concerned, that will require more time and more data.
By established convention, satellites in the Jovian system are named for lovers and descendants of the Roman god Jupiter or his Greek counterpart, Zeus.
But "satellites in general are not given Roman or Greek mythological names until they have at least one year of observations," Sheppard said.
The new Jupiter moons were announced this week in the International Astronomical Union's Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams."
Space Pictures This Week: Sun Loops, Blue Marble, More
|5:02:26 PM, Saturday, January 28, 2012
"Huge loops of plasma?superheated, charged gas?rise from an active region on the sun in a newly released picture from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. Each loop is as tall as several Earths stacked on top of each other.
The plasma loops trace the sun's otherwise invisible magnetic field lines, which rise from the star's magnetically active regions?the starting points for huge eruptions of radiation known as solar flares..."
-- Been neglecting the page a bit, but I'm trying to get back into at least making somewhat regular updates.
Phobos-Grunt: Failed Probe 'Falls Over Pacific'
|5:20:27 PM, Sunday, January 15, 2012
"Orbital tracking reports suggest Russia's failed Mars probe, Phobos-Grunt, fell back to Earth on Sunday, to be destroyed over the Pacific.
Both Russian and US military sources announced the demise of the craft within minutes of each other.
It brings to an end the sorry story of this mission, which promised to return rocky samples from Mars' biggest moon.
Instead, after its launch in November, Phobos-Grunt could not get more than 345km from Earth before stalling.
Once it became clear that controllers could not establish contact with the probe and diagnose its faults, a fiery dive back to Earth became inevitable.
This is the third high-profile spacecraft re-entry in four months, following the return in September of the American UARS satellite and the German Rosat telescope in October. Both fell over the ocean.
With so much of the Earth's surface covered by water, there was every chance Phobos-Grunt would do the same.
The Russians have had a torrid run of space failures recently, leading the head of the country's space agency to wonder even if saboteurs were at work.
Western countries, which use Russian rockets to launch their satellites, are just worried though that some systematic failures have started to appear in what has traditionally been a highly regarded space industry.
With their own opportunity to go to Mars now lost, the Russians may decide to put their future interplanetary efforts into joint ventures with the Americans and the Europeans. The Russians have an offer from the US and Europe to join the ExoMars missions to the Red Planet in 2016 and 2018…"
Doomed Phobos-Grunt, Russian Mars Probe to Crash Sunday
|12:47:40 AM, Sunday, January 15, 2012
(Nat. Geo.) After circling Earth for more than two months, the failed Russian Mars probe Phobos-Grunt will make a kamikaze dive into Earth's atmosphere sometime around Sunday, experts say.
The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, which has given up hope of recovering the spacecraft, is now concentrating on figuring out what will happen to the pieces that fall to Earth.
The agency expects about 20 to 30 fragments totaling about 440 pounds (200 kilograms) to reach the ground, with very low risk to people.
"Due to its predominantly low-melting construction materials, Phobos-Grunt will largely burn up during its reentry, so the corresponding risk to the population on ground is low," said Heiner Klinkrad, head of the space-debris office at the European Space Agency's space operations center in Darmstadt, Germany.
Phobos-Grunt is also carrying 11 tons of toxic fuel propellants, all of which should be consumed by the massive fireball at reentry.
"Roscosmos does not expect any environmental contamination—neither for an impact on ground nor at sea," Kilnkrad noted.
Predicting Mars Probe's Reentry Is Tricky
Phobos-Grunt was meant to go to Phobos—one of the red planet's two moons—where it would have scooped up soil samples and sent them back to Earth in 2014.
But the Russian probe was doomed soon after reaching orbit on November 8, 2011, when the spacecraft failed to fire its rockets and got stuck in Earth's orbit.
As the probe circles about 120 miles (200 kilometers) above Earth, Phobos-Grunt's orbit is rapidly lowering due to drag from Earth's outer atmosphere, Klinkrad said.
Predicting the probe's precise reentry time and location have been tricky, since it will depend on how the probe behaves in its final days and hours in orbit.
"When the 14-ton spacecraft completes its last orbits, at altitudes below 120 kilometers [75 miles], aerodynamic forces can break off parts of the appendices, like solar arrays," Klinkrad said.
In addition, "short-term changes in solar and geomagnetic activity can [have] a strong influence on the ambient atmospheric air density and affect the orbit lifetime," he said.
"Surreal-Looking Comet"
Meanwhile, before it meets its demise, Phobos-Grunt can be spotted in the night sky without any optical aid whatsoever—if you know what to look for.
"Under favorable conditions, Phobos-Grunt is readily visible to the unaided-eye as a bright, rapidly moving, starlike object," said veteran satellite tracker Ted Molczan of Toronto, Canada.
"Observers have noted a pronounced orange hue, which results from the gold-colored thermal blanket that covers most of its surface."
But the real sky show will occur when the dead probe burns up in the atmosphere.
As it sinks into the denser layers of Earth's atmosphere, the probe will heat up and begin to glow brightly, forming a long plasma tail and resembling "a surreal-looking comet," Molczan said.
"Eventually, the combination of extreme heat and rapid deceleration will cause it to fragment into many pieces that will spread out along the path of descent," he said.
"The debris trail will move rapidly across the sky, visible for perhaps one to two minutes, assuming [a viewer has a] reasonably unobstructed view of the sky."
If any pieces do make it to the ground, the European Space Agency's Klinkrad warns people not to take them as souvenirs.
"If someone finds a fragment, it should be turned in to national authorities, because they remain the property of Russia.""
Super-Cool Planck Mission Begins to Warm
|3:50:16 PM, Friday, January 13, 2012
" (BBC) One of Europe's great astronomical ventures is coming to a close.
The Planck telescope, put in space to map the oldest light in the Universe, has run out of the helium coolant that keeps it in full working order.
Engineers expect the observatory's systems to start to warm from their ultra-frigid state in the coming days, blinding one of its two instruments.
Nonetheless, Planck has gathered more than enough data since its launch in 2009 to complete its mission goals.
"We have had a flood of data - much more data than originally anticipated, and now we are in the frantic phase," revealed Jan Tauber, the European Space Agency's (Esa) Planck project scientist.
"In a year's time we have promised to deliver our maps and scientific papers, so we are feeling some pressure," he told BBC News.
Planck's quest has been to survey the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) - the "first light" to sweep out across space once a post-Big-Bang Universe had cooled sufficiently to permit the formation of hydrogen atoms.
Before that time, scientists say, the cosmos would have been so hot that matter and radiation would have been "coupled" - the Universe would have been opaque.
The CMB pervades the entire sky, and scientists can measure tiny temperature variations in it to glean information about the age, contents and shape of the cosmos.
Two American satellites have already done this, but Planck is much more sensitive and can make much more detailed maps, with higher resolution.
To do this, some of its light detectors have had to operate at the astonishingly low temperature of minus 273.05C - just a tenth of a degree above "absolute zero", the lowest temperature theoretically possible in the Universe…"
Pentagon-Backed 'Time Cloak' Stops the Clock
|3:13:41 AM, Friday, January 13, 2012
"Pentagon-supported physicists on Wednesday said they had devised a "time cloak" that briefly makes an event undetectable.
It's one thing to make an object invisible, like Harry Potter's mythical cloak. But scientists have made an entire event impossible to see. They have invented a time masker.
Think of it as an art heist that takes place before your eyes and surveillance cameras. You don't see the thief strolling into the museum, taking the painting down or walking away, but he did. It's not just that the thief is invisible - his whole activity is.
What scientists at Cornell University did was on a much smaller scale, both in terms of events and time. It happened so quickly that it's not even a blink of an eye. Their time cloak lasts an incredibly tiny fraction of a fraction of a second. They hid an event for 40 picoseconds (trillionths of a second), according to a study appearing in Thursday's edition of the journal Nature.
We see events happening as light from them reaches our eyes. Usually it's a continuous flow of light. In the new research, however, scientists were able to interrupt that flow for just an instant.
Other newly created invisibility cloaks fashioned by scientists move the light beams away in the traditional three dimensions. The Cornell team alters not where the light flows but how fast it moves, changing in the dimension of time, not space.
They tinkered with the speed of beams of light in a way that would make it appear to surveillance cameras or laser security beams that an event, such as an art heist, isn't happening.
Another way to think of it is as if scientists edited or erased a split second of history. It's as if you are watching a movie with a scene inserted that you don't see or notice. It's there in the movie, but it's not something you saw, said study co-author Moti Fridman, a physics researcher at Cornell.
The scientists created a lens of not just light, but time. Their method splits light, speeding up one part of light and slowing down another. It creates a gap and that gap is where an event is masked.
"You kind of create a hole in time where an event takes place," said study co-author Alexander Gaeta, director of Cornell's School of Applied and Engineering Physics. "You just don't know that anything ever happened."
This is all happening in beams of light that move too fast for the human eye to see. Using fiber optics, the hole in time is created as light moves along inside a fiber much thinner than a human hair. The scientists shoot the beam of light out, and then with other beams, they create a time lens that splits the light into two different speed beams that create the effect of invisibility by being too fast or too slow. The whole work is a mess of fibers on a long table and almost looks like a pile of spaghetti, Fridman said…"
The 5 Most Insane Original Uses of Famous Products
|2:40:16 AM, Friday, January 13, 2012
"Plenty of products we use every day have interesting little back stories to them. For instance, we bet your fourth grade self could find no greater joy than discovering that Q-tips were originally called "Baby Gays."
But what is even more interesting than that is how some world-changing inventions were created for a completely different, and often stupid, purpose. For instance ..."
Bubble - Blowing Stars Seen in the Thousands by Public
|1:20:19 AM, Friday, January 13, 2012
"A project to spot the "bubbles" that young, massive stars blow in the gas surrounding them has come up trumps, finding more than 5,000 of the objects.
That increases the known catalogue of bubbles by more than a factor of 10.
The discoveries were made by citizen scientists studying images from the Spitzer space telescope, as part of the Milky Way Project.
The much-improved catalogue has been submitted to the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
One of the great remaining mysteries of how our Universe works is how stars themselves form in vast clouds of swirling gas.
Astronomers are keen to find star-forming regions, hoping to catch the process at various stages to better understand it.
Groups of stars form in clusters near particularly large stars, and one good hint of these stellar nurseries is the "bubble" that they blow into the surrounding gas - a bubble that can be seen in pictures taken by Spitzer's infrared camera.
Human intervention
But the task to find and list all the bubbles in existing high-resolution images taken by Spitzer is a daunting one.
The largest previous cataloguing effort was carried out in 2007 by a handful of US astronomers poring through the images with their own eyes; it came up with 269 bubbles.
Automating the process with a computer algorithm is not an option, said Eli Bressert of the European Southern Observatory.
"To have an algorithm that can identify that kind of structure, no one can do it a the moment - it's way too complex," he told BBC News.
"You need two things: pattern recognition and the ability to judge, based on the other data that you've seen, what's good and what's bad - and that's what humans are good at."
Enter the Milky Way Project, which grew from the riotously successful citizen science project to classify and describe types of galaxies, Galaxy Zoo…"
Old Genes Make New, Giant - Headed Ants
|2:33:20 AM, Thursday, January 12, 2012
"Every animal carries a record of its past in its genes -- sometimes teeth show up in birds and vestigial limbs on snakes and whales. Ants are no exception. What if that potential could be tapped? And what brings it out?
That's what a group of scientists at McGill University thought when they ran into a colony of ants on Long Island. A colony of ants known as Pheidole morrisi (more commonly called big-headed ants) had members we call soldiers with really outsized heads and bodies. These were called "super soldiers."
Pheidole, like many other ant species, are divided into castes, such as workers, queens and soldiers. Different foods are given to them when they are larvae, which triggers hormones that determine which caste the ant grows up to be.
Super soldiers occur naturally in some species of Pheidole in the southwestern United States and Mexico. But those living in upstate New York aren't supposed to have the big heads. Ants are a pretty diverse lot and there are more than 1,100 species within even the Pheidole genus. But only eight of them naturally produce the super soldiers.
Biology professor Ehab Abouheif and PhD student Rajee Rajakumar wondered if the genes that build super soldiers were present in the Long Island ants all along, but were just waiting for some environmental factor to bring them out. The scientists first went to Arizona and collected two other species of ant in the same genus, Pheidole rhea andPheidole obtusospinosa, which both have a subclass of super soldiers. They then observed how those two species developed their super soliders.
Next, the scientists gave the young Long Island ants juvenile hormones at certain specific points in their development. In the Pheidole morrisi they got the super-soldier ants, which showed that the potential was always there. It just needed something to bring it out. One interesting phenomenon was the super soldiers had wing buds, which their cousins from Arizona did not. Many ant species develop wings as part of their development and ants and wasps share a common ancestor. The procedure worked in three different species of Pheidole, even though all three were separated by thousands of miles and millions of years of evolution.
Previously, few biologists thought such ancestral traits were important. They were just leftovers like the stuff in your attic. This shows that when necessary, nature has a "tool kit" that it can use to create big morphological changes -- some of them new."
'Tatooine' Planet With Two Suns Could Host Habitable Moon?
|3:11:13 AM, Wednesday, January 11, 2012
"A new planet found last fall may be orbiting two stars, but it's far from a real-life Tatooine. Dubbed Kepler-16b, the world is a cold, Saturn-size gas giant with little chance of hosting desert farmers like the fictional Star Wars world.
But according to new computer simulations, the Kepler-16 stars may still shine on a world fit for life—a hypothetical Earthlike moon orbiting Kepler-16b.
Kepler-16b was discovered by NASA's Kepler spacecraft, which looks for dips in starlight as a planet transits—or passes in front of—a star, as seen from Earth.
For the new study, Billy Quarles, a doctoral student at the University of Texas at Arlington, and colleagues simulated several possible configurations for a theoretical Earth-mass world in the Kepler-16 system.
The team started by drawing up a "laundry list of parameters" for defining the habitable zone—the region around a star where a planet gets enough heat to host liquid water, essential for life as we know it—Quarles said Monday during ameeting of the American Astronomical Society in Austin, Texas.
The researchers assumed that the brighter of the two Kepler-16 stars is the main source of heat and light for any orbiting worlds.
Based on that star's size and temperature, the team determined that the main habitable zone possible around the Kepler-16 stars would extend from about 34 million to 66 million miles (55 to 106 million kilometers) out.
Capturing a Habitable Moon
With a roughly circular orbit about 65 million miles from the stars, the Saturn-like planet is on the outer edge of this main habitable zone. And while this "Tatooine" is uninhabitable, an Earthlike moon in Kepler-16b's orbit could sustain life, the researchers said.
The group isn't yet ready to say whether a moon could have formed alongside the planet. But their simulations suggest a moon could have arrived, fully formed, later in Kepler-16b's life.
According to the new models, a planet closer to the brighter star, squarely in the habitable zone, could have long ago been ejected from its orbit due to gravitational interactions with the other objects in the system.
Kepler-16b's gravitational pull could have attracted the Earthlike planet during its journey outward, turning the world from planet to moon.
Such a moon would technically be in the main habitable zone of the Kepler-16 system and—unlike Mars, on the outer edge of the habitable zone in our solar system—the moon would be massive enough to retain an Earthlike atmosphere, the team said.
First to Find an Alien Moon?
If astronomers were to discover an Earthlike satellite orbiting Kepler-16b—a bigif—it would be a major first.
More than 700 alien planets have been confirmed so far, and Kepler has identified more than 2,000 more potential planets.
As of yet, though, no moons have been detected outside our solar system.
With the new study, "we can say there are exomoons possible around Kepler-16b, and what's important about this is that they are detectable ... down to 0.2 Earth masses," Quarles said.
To do so would require looking for subtle irregularities in the gas giant's orbit that could be caused by a moon's gravitational pull—something Kepler is equipped to do…"
Worm-Eating Plant Found - Kills via Underground Leaves
|2:26:21 AM, Wednesday, January 11, 2012
"Scientists have solved an underground mystery: Why does a plant that survives on sunlight grow leaves beneath the earth?
Flowering plants of the genusPhilcoxia are the only known plants with the "awkward" feature of subterranean leave, said Rafael Oliveira, a plant biologist at the State University of Campinas in Brazil.
Oliveira's new research sheds new light on the oddity, showing that the leaves act as traps for tiny roundworms, or nematodes. This worm food is vital for the plant's survival in the nutrient-deprived savannas of central Brazil.
Plants may seem "boring for some people, because they don't move or actively hunt for their food," Oliveira said by email.
But "they have evolved a number of fascinating solutions to solve common problems, such as the lack of readily available nutrients or water."
Feeding Worms to Plants
Oliveira and colleagues had suspected that Philcoxia plants may be carnivorous, because their sandy habitats and their physical features—such as poorly developed root systems—resemble those of known carnivorous plants. The team had also recently observed roundworms on the plants' subterranean leaves.
To test their hypothesis, the researchers bred nematodes in nitrogen, a marker that would allow the scientists to know if the plant indeed digests worms.
The team then "fed" the nematodes to plants in the lab, and harvested their leaves 24 and 48 days later. A chemical analysis revealed nitrogen from the worms had been incorporated into the plant's leaves.
The results add up to the first evidence of a carnivorous plant with specific adaptations for trapping and eating roundworms, he added.
More Killer Plants Out There?
Only 0.2 percent of flowering plant species are known to digest meat.
But "if we start to look closer at microorganisms [such as nematodes] as a prey type," Oliveira predicted, "we might find more carnivorous plants."
Many plant behaviors, he added, "operate hidden from our view.""
Hackers Plot DIY Sputniks for Internet Freedom
|10:01:08 PM, Monday, January 02, 2012
"(BBC) Computer hackers plan to take the internet beyond the reach of censors by putting their own communication satellites into orbit.
The scheme was outlined at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin.
The project's organisers said the Hackerspace Global Grid will also involve developing a grid of ground stations to track and communicate with the satellites.
Longer term they hope to help put an amateur astronaut on the moon.
Hobbyists have already put a few small satellites into orbit - usually only for brief periods of time - but tracking the devices has proved difficult for low-budget projects.
The hacker activist Nick Farr first put out calls for people to contribute to the project in August. He said that the increasing threat of internet censorship had motivated the project.
"The first goal is an uncensorable internet in space. Let's take the internet out of the control of terrestrial entities," Mr Farr said.
Beyond balloons
He cited the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) in the United States as an example of the kind of threat facing online freedom. If passed, the act would allow for some sites to be blocked on copyright grounds.
Whereas past space missions have almost all been the preserve of national agencies and large companies, amateur enthusiasts have in recent years sent a few payloads into orbit.
These devices have mostly been sent up using balloons and are tricky to pinpoint precisely from the ground.
According to Armin Bauer, a 26-year-old enthusiast from Stuttgart who is working on the Hackerspace Global Grid, this is largely due to lack of funding.
"Professionals can track satellites from ground stations, but usually they don't have to because, if you pay a large sum [to send the satellite up on a rocket], they put it in an exact place," Mr Bauer said.
In the long run, a wider hacker aerospace project aims to put an amateur astronaut onto the moon within the next 23 years.
"It is very ambitious so we said let's try something smaller first," Mr Bauer added.
Ground network
The Berlin conference was the latest meeting held by the Chaos Computer Club, a decades-old German hacker group that has proven influential not only for those interested in exploiting or improving computer security, but also for people who enjoy tinkering with hardware and software.
When Mr Farr called for contributions to Hackerspace, Mr Bauer and others decided to concentrate on the communications infrastructure aspect of the scheme…"
Nasa's Gravity Twins Now Circling Moon
|9:51:47 PM, Monday, January 02, 2012
"The US space agency (Nasa) has succeeded in placing two new satellites in orbit around the Moon.
Both spacecraft were put in elliptical paths around the lunar body over the weekend after performing braking manoeuvres following their more than 100-day journey from Earth.
The identical Grail twins are to map gravity variations across the lunar body in unprecedented detail.
This will help scientists refine our theories for how the Moon formed.
It will also enable them to test new ideas, such as the provocative suggestion made earlier this year that there were probably two moons in the sky above Earth billions of years ago.
Lead scientist Dr Maria Zuber is certainly hoping for some dramatic discoveries.
"Grail is a journey to the centre of the Moon and it will use exceedingly precise measurements of gravity to reveal what the inside of the Moon is like," the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researcher said.
"This information will be combined with the plethora of remarkable observations of the Moon that have been taken by other satellites before, and together they will enable us to reconstruct the Moon's early evolution."
The 300kg Grail spacecraft were launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, last September, and took a long spiral out to their destination.
This weekend, they approached the Moon over the south pole, 25 hours apart. Each satellite in turn fired its main engine to slow it and put it in an elliptical orbit around the lunar sphere.
This orbit has a period of 11.5 hours and must now gradually be reduced in size and circularised before any science can begin.
A series of further burns on each spacecraft should achieve this goal by March.
The twins will then map the small variations in gravity across the lunar surface from an altitude of 55km.
These gravity differences are the result of an uneven distribution of mass. Obvious examples at the Moon's surface include big mountain ranges or deep impact basins, but even inside the lunar body the rock will be arranged in an irregular fashion, with some regions being denser than others.
All this will have a subtle influence on the pull of gravity sensed by the over-flying spacecraft.
The Grail twins will make their measurements by carrying out a carefully calibrated pursuit of each other.
As the lead spacecraft flies through the uneven gravity field, it will experience small accelerations or decelerations. The second spacecraft, following some 100-200km behind, will detect these disturbances as very slight changes in the separation between the pair - deviations that are not much more than the width of a human red blood cell.
When the gravity map is combined with comparable-resolution topographical information showing the surface highs and lows, scientists should be able to deduce the Moon's probable internal structure and composition. This is fundamental knowledge that will play into theories of how the lunar body formed and how it has changed through time…"
LHC Reports Discovery of its First New Particle
|12:03:27 AM, Friday, December 23, 2011
"(BBC) The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on the Franco-Swiss border has made its first clear observation of a new particle since opening in 2009.
It is called Chi_b (3P) and will help scientists understand better the forces that hold matter together.
The as-yet unpublished discovery is reported on the Arxiv pre-print server.
The LHC is exploring some of the fundamental questions in "big physics" by colliding proton particles together in a huge underground facility.
Detail in the sub-atomic wreckage from these impacts is expected to yield new information about the way the Universe is constructed.
The Chi_b (3P) is a more excited state of Chi particles already seen in previous collision experiments, explained Prof Roger Jones, who works on the Atlas detector at the LHC.
"The new particle is made up of a 'beauty quark' and a 'beauty anti-quark', which are then bound together," he told BBC News.
"People have thought this more excited state should exist for years but nobody has managed to see it until now.
"It's also interesting for what it tells us about the forces that hold the quark and the anti-quark together - the strong nuclear force. And that's the same force that holds, for instance, the atomic nucleus together with its protons and the neutrons."
The LHC is designed to fill in gaps in the Standard Model - the current framework devised to explain the interactions of sub-atomic particles - and also to look for any new physics beyond it.
In particular, it is using the collisions to try to pin down the famous Higgs particle, which physicists hypothesize can explain why matter has mass.
Discoveries such as Chi_b (3P) are an important part of this quest because they add to the wider background knowledge, says Prof Jones, from Lancaster University, UK.
"The better we understand the strong force, the more we understand a large part of the data that we see, which is quite often the background to the more exciting things we are looking for, like the Higgs.
"So, it's helping put together that basic understanding that we have and need to do the new physics."
Prof Paul Newman, from the University of Birmingham, added: "This is the first time such a new particle has been found at the LHC. Its discovery is a testament to the very successful running of the collider in 2011 and to the superb understanding of our detector which has been achieved by the Atlas collaboration already."
And Andy Chisholm, a PhD student from Birmingham who worked on the analysis, said: "Analysing the billions of particle collisions at the LHC is fascinating. There are potentially all kinds of interesting things buried in the data, and we were lucky to look in the right place at the right time.""
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On display on Level 1
Rainforest people
Australia Unknown – Unknown
A unique and essential item of rainforest life was an elegantly constructed, crescent-shaped, woven basket. These beautifully crafted baskets were made from lengths of split lawyer cane, a prolific climbing plant found throughout the rainforest. The lawyer cane was not collected until needed because the basket-maker had to complete the task within five days—after this time the cane could no longer be made pliable by soaking. The distinct crescent shape of the basket was formed by stringing the ends of the split lawyer cane like a bow and attaching it by top-stitching to the inner surface. Two handles, one small, one long, were fitted to the mouth and held there by tightly woven thin strips of split lawyer cane.
Undecorated crescent-shaped baskets were used to gather and leach foods. … In flood times women caught large quantities of small fish with these baskets. Very large baskets were used to ferry goods—and also children—across rivers. Crescent-shaped bark baskets were also made for carrying honey or water.
Painted baskets were used by men for various purposes: to carry ritual objects, for trading purposes, or as a gift to a friend.
(Kate Khan, 'Adornments and design in north Queensland: A view from the nineteenth century' in Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture, 2000, p.181)
This basket was purchased for the national collection in 1998, having been acquired by the vendor c.1988 from an opportunity shop. The vendor related to Gallery curators how the basket was put to use in their kitchen to hold fruit such as oranges. The vendor also described how the remaining ochres were unfortunately scrubbed from the basket when they decided to wash off decades of accumulated grease.
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|New Zealand occupied the German protectorate of Western Samoa at the outbreak of World War I in 1914. It continued to administer the islands as a mandate and then as a trust territory until 1962, when the islands became the first Polynesian nation to reestablish independence in the 20th century. The country dropped the "Western" from its name in 1997.
Occupies an almost central position within Polynesia
|Oceania, group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, about half way between Hawaii and New Zealand
|Geographic coordinates:
| total: 2,831 sq km
land: 2,821 sq km
water: 10 sq km
Size comparison: slightly smaller than Rhode Island
|Land Boundaries:
|0 km
|403 km
|Maritime claims:
| territorial sea: 12 nm
contiguous zone: 24 nm
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
|tropical; rainy season (November to April), dry season (May to October)
|two main islands (Savaii, Upolu) and several smaller islands and uninhabited islets; narrow coastal plain with volcanic, rocky, rugged mountains in interior
|Elevation extremes:
| lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m
highest point: Mount Silisili 1,857 m
|Natural resources:
|hardwood forests, fish, hydropower
|Land use:
| arable land: 2.82%
permanent crops: 7.75%
other: 89.44% (2011)
|Irrigated land:
|Natural hazards:
|occasional typhoons; active volcanism volcanism: Savai'I Island (elev. 1,858 m), which last erupted in 1911, is historically active
|Current Environment Issues:
|soil erosion, deforestation, invasive species, overfishing
|International Environment Agreements:
| party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
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| noun: Samoan(s)
adjective: Samoan
|Ethnic groups:
|Samoan 92.6%, Euronesians (persons of European and Polynesian blood) 7%, Europeans 0.4% (2001 census)
|Samoan (Polynesian) (official), English
|Protestant 59.9% (Congregationalist 34.8%, Methodist 15%, Assembly of God 6.6%, Seventh-Day Adventist 3.5%), Roman Catholic 19.6%, Mormon 12.7%, Worship Centre 1.3%, other Christian 4.5%, other 1.9%, unspecified 0.1% (2001 census)
|195,476 (July 2013 est.) note: prior estimates used official net migration data by sex, but a highly unusual pattern for 1993 lead to a significant imbalance in the sex ratios (more men and fewer women) and a seeming reduction in the female population; the revised total was calculated using a 1993 number that was an average of the 1992 and 1994 migration figures
|Age structure:
| 0-14 years: 34% (male 34,291/female 32,170)
15-24 years: 20.1% (male 20,150/female 19,129)
25-54 years: 34.9% (male 35,391/female 32,746)
55-64 years: 5.7% (male 5,637/female 5,489)
65 years and over: 5.4% (male 4,583/female 5,890) (2013 est.)
|Dependency ratios:
| total dependency ratio: 75.1 %
youth dependency ratio: 66.1 %
elderly dependency ratio: 9 %
potential support ratio: 11.1 (2013)
|Median age:
| total: 22.7 years
male: 22.5 years
female: 22.9 years (2013 est.)
|Population growth rate:
|0.59% (2013 est.)
|Birth rate:
|21.7 births/1,000 population (2013 est.)
|Death rate:
|5.33 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)
|Net migration rate:
|-10.46 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2013 est.)
| urban population: 20% of total population (2010)
rate of urbanization: 0% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)
|Major urban areas - population:
|APIA (capital) 36,000 (2009)
|Sex ratio:
| at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
0-14 years: 1.07 male(s)/female
15-24 years: 1.06 male(s)/female
25-54 years: 1.09 male(s)/female
55-64 years: 1.02 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.78 male(s)/female
total population: 1.05 male(s)/female (2013 est.)
|Mother's mean age at first birth:
|23.6 note: Median age at first birth among women 25-29 (2009 est.)
|Maternal mortality rate:
|100 deaths/100,000 live births (2010)
|Infant mortality rate:
| total: 20.95 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 24.8 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 16.91 deaths/1,000 live births (2013 est.)
|Life expectancy at birth:
| total population: 72.94 years
male: 70.06 years
female: 75.97 years (2013 est.)
|Total fertility rate:
|3.03 children born/woman (2013 est.)
|Contraceptive prevalence rate:
|28.7% (2009)
|Health expenditures:
|6.5% of GDP (2010)
|Physicians density:
|0.27 physicians/1,000 population (2005)
|Hospital bed density:
|0.97 beds/1,000 population (2005)
|Drinking water source:
| improved:
urban: 96% of population
rural: 96% of population
total: 96% of population
urban: 4% of population
rural: 4% of population
total: 4% of population (2010 est.)
|Sanitation facility access:
| improved:
urban: 98% of population
rural: 98% of population
total: 98% of population
urban: 2% of population
rural: 2% of population
total: 2% of population (2010 est.)
|Obesity - adult prevalence rate:
|54.1% (2008)
|Education expenditures:
|5.8% of GDP (2008)
| definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 98.8%
male: 99%
female: 98.6% (2003 est.)
|School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education):
| total: 12 years
male: 12 years
female: 13 years (2005)
|Unemployment, youth ages 15-24:
| total: 12.2%
male: 10.6%
female: 15.5% (2001)
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|Country name:
| conventional long form: Independent State of Samoa
conventional short form: Samoa
local long form: Malo Sa'oloto Tuto'atasi o Samoa
local short form: Samoa
former: Western Samoa
|Government type:
|parliamentary democracy
| name: Apia
geographic coordinates: 13 49 S, 171 46 W
time difference: UTC+13 (18 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time) +1hr, begins last Sunday in September; ends first Sunday in April
|Administrative divisions:
|11 districts; A'ana, Aiga-i-le-Tai, Atua, Fa'asaleleaga, Gaga'emauga, Gagaifomauga, Palauli, Satupa'itea, Tuamasaga, Va'a-o-Fonoti, Vaisigano
|1 January 1962 (from New Zealand-administered UN trusteeship)
|National holiday:
|Independence Day Celebration, 1 June (1962); note - 1 January 1962 is the date of independence from the New Zealand-administered UN trusteeship; it is observed in June
|1 January 1962
|Legal system:
|mixed legal system of English common law and customary law; judicial review of legislative acts with respect to fundamental rights of the citizen
|21 years of age; universal
|Executive branch:
| chief of state: TUI ATUA Tupua Tamasese Efi (since 20 June 2007)
head of government: Prime Minister TUILA'EPA Lupesoliai Sailele Malielegaoi (since 1998); Deputy Prime Minister FONOTOE Pierre Lauofo (since 2011)
cabinet: Cabinet consists of 12 members appointed by the chief of state on the prime minister's advice (For more information visit the World Leaders website )
elections: chief of state elected by the Legislative Assembly to serve a five-year term (no term limits); election last held on 20 July 2012 (next to be held in 2017); following legislative elections, the leader of the majority party usually appointed prime minister by the chief of state with the approval of the Legislative Assembly
election results: TUI ATUA Tupua Tamasese Efi unanimously elected by the Legislative Assembly
|Legislative branch:
| unicameral Legislative Assembly or Fono (49 seats, 47 members elected by voters affiliated with traditional village-based electoral districts, 2 elected by independent, mostly non-Samoan or part-Samoan, voters who cannot (or choose not to) establish a village affiliation; only chiefs (matai) may stand for election to the Fono from the 47 village-based electorates; members serve five-year terms)
elections: election last held on 4 March 2011 (next election to be held not later than March 2016)
election results: percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - HRPP 29, Tautua Samoa 13, independents 7
|Judicial branch:
| highest court(s): Court of Appeal (consists of the chief justice and 2 Supreme Court judges and meets once or twice a year); Supreme Court (consists of the chief justice and several judges) judge selection and term of office: chief justice appointed by the head of state upon the advice of the prime minister; other Supreme Court judges appointed by the Judicial Service Commission, a 3-member body chaired by the chief justice and includes the attorney general and an appointee of the Minister of Justice; judges normally appointed until retirement at age 68
subordinate courts: District Court; Magistrates' Courts; Land and Titles Courts; village fono or village chief councils
|Political parties and leaders:
|Human Rights Protection Party or HRPP [Sailele Malielegaoi TUILA'EPA] Samoa Christian Party or TCP [Tuala Tiresa MALIETOA] Samoa Progressive Political Party or SPPP Tautua Samoa [Palusalue FA'APO II]
|International organization participation:
|ACP, ADB, AOSIS, C, FAO, G-77, IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IPU, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, OPCW, PIF, Sparteca, SPC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WCO, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
|National symbol(s):
|Southern Cross constellation (five, five-pointed stars)
|National anthem:
| name: "O le Fu'a o le Sa'olotoga o Samoa" (The Banner of Freedom)
lyrics/music: Sauni Liga KURESA
note: adopted 1962; the anthem is also known as "Samoa Tula'i" (Samoa Arise)
|Diplomatic representation in the US:
| chief of mission: Ambassador Aliioaiga Feturi ELISAIA
chancery: 800 Second Avenue, Suite 400J, New York, NY 10017
telephone: [1] (212) 599-6196 through 6197
consulate(s) general: Pago Pago (American Samoa)
|Diplomatic representation from the US:
| chief of mission: US Ambassador to New Zealand is accredited to Samoa
embassy: Accident Corporation Building, 5th Floor, Matafele, Apia
mailing address: P. O. Box 3430, Matafele, Apia
telephone: [685] 21436/21631/21452/22696
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The economy of Samoa has traditionally been dependent on development aid, family remittances from overseas, agriculture, and fishing. The country is vulnerable to devastating storms. Agriculture employs roughly two-thirds of the labor force and furnishes 90% of exports, featuring coconut cream, coconut oil, and copra. The manufacturing sector mainly processes agricultural products. One factory in the Foreign Trade Zone employs 3,000 people to make automobile electrical harnesses for an assembly plant in Australia. Tourism is an expanding sector accounting for 25% of GDP; 122,000 tourists visited the islands in 2007. In late September 2009, an earthquake and the resulting tsunami severely damaged Samoa, and nearby American Samoa, disrupting transportation and power generation, and resulting in about 200 deaths. In December 2012, extensive flooding and wind damage from Tropical Cyclone Evan killed four people, displaced over 6,000, and damaged or destroyed an estimated 1,500 homes in Samoa's Upolu island. The Samoan Government has called for deregulation of the financial sector, encouragement of investment, and continued fiscal discipline, while at the same time protecting the environment. Observers point to the flexibility of the labor market as a basic strength for future economic advances. Foreign reserves are in a relatively healthy state, the external debt is stable, and inflation is low.
|GDP (purchasing power parity):
| GDP (purchasing power parity): $1.146 billion (2012 est.) $1.132 billion (2011 est.) $1.11 billion (2010 est.)
note: data are in 2012 US dollars
|GDP (official exchange rate):
|GDP (official exchange rate): $683 million (2012 est.)
|GDP - real growth rate:
|1.2% (2012 est.) 2% (2011 est.) 0.4% (2010 est.)
|GDP - per capita (PPP):
| GDP - per capita (PPP): $6,300 (2012 est.) $6,200 (2011 est.) $6,100 (2010 est.)
note: data are in 2012 US dollars
|Agriculture - products:
|coconuts, bananas, taro, yams, coffee, cocoa
|food processing, building materials, auto parts
|Industrial production growth rate:
|2% (2012 est.)
|Labor force:
|47,930 (2011 est.)
|Labor force - by occupation:
| agriculture: 65%
industry: NA%
services: NA%
|Unemployment rate:
|Population below poverty line:
|Household income or consumption by percentage share:
| lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%
| revenues: $233.4 million
expenditures: $263.9 million (2012 est.)
|Taxes and other revenues:
|34.2% of GDP (2012 est.)
|Fiscal year:
|June 1 - May 31
|Inflation rate (consumer prices):
|Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.1% (2012 est.) 5.2% (2011 est.)
|Current account balance:
|-$76.11 million (2011 est.) -$58.66 million (2010 est.)
|$11.4 million (2011 est.)
|Exports - commodities:
|fish, coconut oil and cream, copra, taro, automotive parts, garments, beer
|Exports - partners:
|American Samoa 50.4%, Australia 22.6% (2012)
|$318.7 million (2011 est.) $280 million (2010 est.)
|Imports - commodities:
|machinery and equipment, industrial supplies, foodstuffs
|Imports - partners:
|Fiji 19%, NZ 18.8%, Singapore 18.2%, China 15.5%, Australia 5.8%, US 5.3% (2012)
|Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
|$168.7 million (31 December 2012 est.) $166.8 million (31 December 2011 est.)
|Debt - external:
|$368.3 million (31 December 2011 est.) $235.5 million (31 December 2009 est.)
|Market value of publicly traded shares:
|Exchange rates:
|tala (SAT) per US dollar - 2.2923 (2012 est.) 2.3175 (2011 est.) 2.4847 (2010 est.)
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|Electricity - production:
|104.2 million kWh (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 194
|Electricity - consumption:
|96.91 million kWh (2009 est.)
|Electricity - exports:
|0 kWh (2010 est.)
|Electricity - imports:
|0 kWh (2010 est.)
|Electricity - installed generating capacity:
|41,100 kW (2009 est.)
|Electricity - from fossil fuels:
|70.6% of total installed capacity (2009 est.)
|Electricity - from nuclear fuels:
|0% of total installed capacity (2009 est.)
|Electricity - from hydroelectric plants:
|29.2% of total installed capacity (2009 est.)
|Electricity - from other renewable sources:
|0.2% of total installed capacity (2009 est.)
|Crude oil - production:
|0 bbl/day (2011 est.)
|Crude oil - exports:
|0 bbl/day (2009 est.)
|Crude oil - imports:
|0 bbl/day (2009 est.)
|Crude oil - proved reserves:
|0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - production:
|0 bbl/day (2008 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - consumption:
|1,070 bbl/day (2011 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - exports:
|0 bbl/day (2008 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - imports:
|1,125 bbl/day (2008 est.)
|Natural gas - production:
|0 cu m (2010 est.)
|Natural gas - consumption:
|0 cu m (2010 est.)
|Natural gas - exports:
|0 cu m (2010 est.)
|Natural gas - imports:
|0 cu m (2010 est.)
|Natural gas - proved reserves:
|0 cu m (1 January 2012 est.)
|Carbon dioxide emissions from consumption of energy:
|147,400 Mt (2010 est.)
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|Telephones in use:
| 35,300 (2010)
country comparison to the world: 173
|Cellular Phones in use:
|167,400 (2010)
|Telephone system:
| general assessment: adequate
domestic: combined fixed-line and mobile-cellular teledensity roughly 100 telephones per 100 persons
international: country code - 685; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean) (2007)
|Broadcast media:
|state-owned TV station privatized in 2008; 4 privately-owned television broadcast stations; about a half dozen privately owned radio stations and one state-owned radio station; TV and radio broadcasts of several stations from American Samoa are available (2009)
|Internet country code:
|Internet hosts:
|18,013 (2012)
|Internet users:
|9,000 (2009)
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| 4 (2013)
country comparison to the world: 187
|Airports (paved runways):
| total 1
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1 (2013)
|Airports (unpaved runways):
| total 3
under 914 m: 3 (2013)
| total 2,337 km
paved: 332 km
unpaved: 2,005 km (2001)
|Merchant marine:
| total 2
by type: cargo 1, passenger/cargo 1
foreign-owned: 1 (NZ 1) (2010)
|Ports and terminals:
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|Samoa has no formal defense structure or regular armed forces; informal defense ties exist with NZ, which is required to consider any Samoan request for assistance under the 1962 Treaty of Friendship
|Military branches:
|no regular military forces; Samoa Police Force (2008)
|Manpower available for military service:
|males age 16-49: 47,906 (2010 est.)
|Manpower fit for military service:
| males age 16-49: 38,260
females age 16-49: 38,032 (2010 est.)
|Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:
| male: 2,221
female: 2,062 (2010 est.)
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In Pyrmont Power Station from Darling Harbour Rah Fizelle has combined his knowledge of French Cubism and dynamic symmetry with his interest in the industrial landscape around Sydney Harbour. After a period of study in Europe, and through his artistic association with Grace Crowley, Fizelle adapted a method of working that emphasised pictorial composition, the simplification of forms into basic geometry and the use of colour to integrate form.
Fizelle has carefully structured the composition in this painting, establishing an ordered relationship between every aspect. Forms have been reduced to basic geometrical elements. The building facades are flattened and the spherical shapes of chimneys and wharf pillars carefully rendered. Dabbing brushstrokes used to depict smoke and sky are repeated in the representation of the luminous body of water. The colours of concrete and faded wood are reflected in the smoggy sky. Colour subtly shifts between background and foreground, creating a sense of compositional harmony and order. Unlike his contemporaries, including Crowley, Fizelle never moved completely into abstraction. He wrote: 'I have always painted more or less in the visual aspect of nature. Landscape and figures have been stylised, and the composition organised with a subjective attitude towards nature.'1
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Here's a gem of a thread that is apropos right now....I found myself doing this anyway, so thought I'd share it with the board.
I've simply taken each of our picks through the first 5 rounds and pulled out where they stood in Slimm's rankings. Makes it easy to compare and get a quick feel for 'how we did' according to Slimm.
I've listed each pick with 3 lines.
First line: Round/position in the round ( overall slot in draft ) Player - Position
Second line: Slimm's positional ranking - player - valued round
Third line: slimm's ranking on his big board ( you can compare this directly with the 'overall slot in draft number )
Granted this is from 2/28 but it's the best overall big board I could find...
1.3 ( 3) Dion Jordan - DE
6. Dion Jordan - 1st round
19. Dion Jordan / DE / Oregon
2.22 (54) Jamar Taylor - CB
4. Jamar Taylor - 2nd round
40. Jamar Taylor / CB / Boise St.
3.15 (77) Dallas Thomas - OT
16. Dallas Thomas - 4th round (guard)
173. Dallas Thomas / OG / Tennessee
3.31 (93) Will Davis - CB
12. Will Davis - 3rd round
87. Will Davis / CB / Utah St.
4.7 (104) Jelani Jenkins - LB
12. Jelani Jenkins - 5th round
208. Jelani Jenkins / LB / Florida
4.9 (106) Dion Sims - TE
6. Dion Sims* - 3rd round
72. Dion Sims* / TE / Michigan St.
5.31 (164) Mike Gillislee - RB
16. Mike Gillislee - 4th round
162. Mike Gillisliee / RB / Florida
Made me feel better about some of the guys I'd never heard of! Also, as a body of work, we ended up with:
- one top 6 player
- 1 2nd rounder
- 2 3rd rounders
- 2 4th rounders
- 1 5th
Which is maybe about average based on the ammo we started out with ( considering we gave up 1 2nd rounder to get the top 6 player ).
Gase has taken an interesting approach to instilling a winning culture in Miami. He is cocky. He is smart. He is borderline deranged.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/sp...#storylink=cpy
seeing Davis rated in 3rd round is something reassuring: it wasn't a totally absurd pick....
viceversa, not so good reading his rating for Jankins and Thomas, both about 100 pick earlier..
also, thinking about Carradine in SF is kinda of depressing: what a passrush/defensive line they are going to have!
is there a possibility that Ted Slimm Jr will rate every team's draft, like he did last year? it would be awesome
anyway, thanks for this wonderful thread
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No I would not have traded up for Dion Jordan, although it certainly beats the hell out of trading up for a left tackle. That's about as positive a spin as I can put on it.
Give Ireland credit if he believes Jordon will be Demarcus Ware...at least it's based on some reasoning.
The Dallas Thomas pick was a gross need pick. Overall, I would have preferred to trade either down from 12 into the 20s and up from 2b and 3a into the 20s... Players like Rhodes, Carradine, Eric Reid, J. Taylor (happy we got him) excellent value..
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Shares of Monsanto (MON) and DuPont (DD) have reacted very differently to news that the two companies have settled a patent dispute and agreed to a licensing deal.
Monsanto's stock is up more than 3.5% while DuPont's shares have fallen about 1%.
The two companies were fighting over the technology rights for genetically modified seeds.
Here are the details of today's settlement, courtesy of Reuters:
The deal tosses out a $1 billion verdict that DuPont owed Monsanto. Instead, it calls for DuPont to make at least $1.75 billion in royalty payments over several years while giving its Pioneer agricultural seeds unit broad access to develop products using Monsanto's leading genetic technology.
"This is a smart deal for DuPont," Paul Schickler, president of DuPont Pioneer, said in an interview. "We've got access to two additional technologies that we can now combine with our existing technologies as well as the technologies that are in our pipeline."
DuPont will have broad rights that include stacking of traits, Schickler said.
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I only got about 230Kbyte/sec into the Due - but most of the data was lost, only short sections near the beginning and end got copied back. Something to look into.Running your code, I only get 10.67KHz (~330Kbyte/sec) (I cross checked with stty -F /dev/ttyACM0 raw ; time cat /dev/ttyACM0 >out )
void setup() { Serial.begin(115200); SerialUSB.begin(115200);}void loop() { if(Serial.available()){byte c=Serial.read();Serial.write(c);} if(SerialUSB.available()){byte c=SerialUSB.read();SerialUSB.write(c);}}
void setup() { Serial.begin(115200); SerialUSB.begin(115200); while (!SerialUSB);}
The Native port may take longer to initialize.You may want to try adding this to your stetup().Code: [Select]void setup() { Serial.begin(115200); SerialUSB.begin(115200); while (!SerialUSB);}
#define CDC_SERIAL_BUFFER_SIZE 512...struct ring_buffer{ uint8_t buffer[CDC_SERIAL_BUFFER_SIZE]; volatile uint32_t head; volatile uint32_t tail;};
void Serial_::accept(void){ ring_buffer *buffer = &cdc_rx_buffer; uint32_t c = USBD_Recv(CDC_RX); uint32_t i = (uint32_t)(buffer->head+1) % SERIAL_BUFFER_SIZE; // if we should be storing the received character into the location // just before the tail (meaning that the head would advance to the // current location of the tail), we're about to overflow the buffer // and so we don't write the character or advance the head. if (i != buffer->tail) { buffer->buffer[buffer->head] = c; buffer->head = i; }}int Serial_::available(void){ ring_buffer *buffer = &cdc_rx_buffer; return (unsigned int)(SERIAL_BUFFER_SIZE + buffer->head - buffer->tail) % SERIAL_BUFFER_SIZE;}
int Serial_::read(void){ ring_buffer *buffer = &cdc_rx_buffer; // if the head isn't ahead of the tail, we don't have any characters if (buffer->head == buffer->tail) { return -1; } else { unsigned char c = buffer->buffer[buffer->tail]; buffer->tail = (unsigned int)(buffer->tail + 1) % SERIAL_BUFFER_SIZE; return c; }}
On some other recent threads, it is clearly observed that the Serial USB link wether HW or SW (low level or high level) have serious speed issue. One way to perceive this, there are many other methods and practical tests, is by observing the same *.INO project loaded on mega takes almost no time to USB download but HUGE time to download on DUE.
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Posted February 25, 2004; 05:10 p.m.
A presentation titled "Chinese Views of American Policy" will take place at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 2, in 16 Robertson Hall.
Speaking will be Cao Huayin, deputy secretary general of the China Reform Forum, a Beijing-based think tank affiliated with the Central Party School of the Communist Party of China. He currently is a visiting research fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, where he is researching the North Korea nuclear issue.
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The Princeton University Figure Skating Club will present its fifth annual spring show, "Skating for the Gold!," at Baker Rink on Friday and Saturday, April 5 and 6. The shows will start at 8 p.m.
This years program is an Olympic-themed display of artistry, athleticism and fun. The members of the student-run club compete in both traditional U.S. Figure Skating Association competitions and East Coast collegiate competitions.
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Home BSO Entertainment Caption the Photo: Kate Upton on the Cover of SI MLB Playoff...
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Sports Illustrated would have to pay me one million dollars to do what Bar Rafaeli did to that fat nerdy kid.
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Frank Simon, senior managing producer at Sony Computer Entertainment America, answers your questions about the explosive first person shooter on PS Vita.
What inspiration did you take from previous Resistance games and bring to Resistance: Burning Skies? (Eweor)
There's quite a bit that was taken from prior Resistance games as this is the fifth title in the series. Things ranging from weapons like the Bullseye and the Auger to the Chimera and the weapon wheel. But probably one of the coolest things that has stayed constant in the franchise is the sense that humanity can overcome unstoppable odds.
How was Insomniac Games involved in developing Resistance: Burning Skies, despite having finished the Resistance saga? (sliph3r)
Insomniac was involved from the inception of Resistance: Burning Skies. In fact, during the development of Resistance 3 we had asked the question; "what would things be like from a civilian perspective?" Resistance: Burning Skies is the answer to that question in that Tom Riley is a civilian fireman who thinks it's just another day on the job.
What makes Resistance: Burning Skies unique compared to other first person shooters? (Urban_Hermit)
First and foremost, the presence of dual analog sticks on a portable gaming system makes all the difference. That being said, the front touchscreen has allowed us to take secondary firing to a new level by presenting these options to users in a straightforward and easy to access manner.
Where does this game fit into the timeline of the Resistance universe? (Hbbear)
Resistance: Burning Skies takes place just after the start of events in Resistance 2. If you recall, Resistance 2 starts with Hale visiting Daedalus at the SRPA research base in Iceland and then there is a two-year gap before we pick up with things in San Francisco. Resistance: Burning Skies takes place during the invasion of the eastern seaboard of the United States.
Will there be new enemies in the game? (Bersecker)
Of course, there are new enemies in a variety of shapes and sizes. We have returning Chimera like the Grunts, Steelheads and Leapers, and new Chimera like the Executioner, the Impaler and the Abomination.
Why did you create a fireman as the main character instead of one of the already familiar faces of Resistance? (sniperrifle1891)
Firemen are universal heroes so we felt the players would be able to form an immediate bond with the main character, plus Tom is grounded as he has a family that he's also trying to save from the catastrophic events unfolding around them.
How many different weapons will be used? (BricoMen)
There are actually nine different and unique weapons you'll find across Resistance: Burning Skies. What makes these weapons stand out from the pack is the different ways you can customise them using Grey Tech you find across the single player campaign. These allow you to build up the weapons you enjoy using and play the game the way you want to play it.
Do you think Resistance: Burning Skies will impress Resistance fans? (Aquamaler)
We certainly hope so. We've provided our fans with a whole arsenal of toys to play with and we hope they have as much fun using them as we did making them.
What PlayStation Vita features did you have the most fun working with? (Ftwn_x_SnIpE)
Dual analog sticks? Front touch controls? Easy access Wi-Fi connections? It's hard to put your finger on one thing. Having dual analog sticks in a first person shooter is paramount for easy access controls. The addition of the touchscreen has made for really cool secondary fire modes. From dragging out a shield for the Auger to loading the Napalm launcher for the Mule, the touchscreen has allowed us to provide really interesting ways for players to interact directly with the world of Resistance.
In what ways have you used the capabilities of PS Vita to turn this game into the ultimate handheld experience? (studio64)
There's a lot that PlayStation Vita has to offer, and we feel like we've done a great job in giving the player a fantastic FPS. With an all-new story, a new character, new and returning weapons and Chimera, a rich multiplayer mode and a fully integrated control scheme, we believe Resistance: Burning Skies will keep fans having fun in the Resistance universe for months to come.
You can get your hands on a copy of Resistance: Burning Skies from your local store or download it from PlayStation Store.
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Pros: Great sound with surprizing bass for such a small package, Build Quality, 30 day audition, 5 year warranty
Cons: Imputs are Ballanced and Unballanced RCA only. Each Speaker has to have AC power.
Was looking for a smallish computer speaker with very good sound quality for less then $500. I looked around and read many reviews and thanks to the 30 day audition period from both Audioengine and Emotiva decided to give the Emotiva Airmotiv4 and Audioengine A5+ a try. My thought was pic the one that my ears liked the most even if that meant some compromises in other area.
Each comes packaged very well. The Audioengine packaging and contained cabling is a bit better deal but I was firm on letting my ears decide this battle. Once I had them set up so I could quickly switch source material I went about breaking them in for 20 hrs of music over the next few days. During this time I selected my music off HDTracks and was ready to go.
Auditioning day came and I fired up Steely Dan Babylon Sister to get things rolling. I started off with the Audioengine A5+ and was impressed with its sound stage and overall sound. The Emotiva Airmotiv4 was even more impressive. So much so I moved the A5+ off the stand and tried to replicate as close as possible the setup. I was astounded to hear a similar sound stage from a smaller package and crisper highs then I got form the A5+. I went though many other tracks ranging from Pink Floyd SOCD part 1-5, Nora Jones, Doors, Metric, Neko Case, Reverend Horton Heat to Thomas Dolby. Overall my ears were more pleased with the Emotiva Airmotiv4 then the bigger better looking A5+. The Airmotiv4 had clearer highs the bass response was pretty equal (And in need of a real Sub) but overall just more pleasing quality.
Now don't get me wrong the A5+ is a great speaker, the connections are more flexible, great sound stage and the right channel having only one wire to contend with vs. RCA and power was almost a deal breaker for the Airmotive4...
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Boy, I was glad that Ari was the first one out. He was the most arrogant prick (did I just write that?) I'd seen in a long time. I don't think I would've tuned in if he were on the show for too long. He was right: karma came around and bit him good. It was well deserved.
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On September 13th, the Middle Atlantic Region (MAR) hosted a meeting for the Region's Resource Library directors. MAR consists of 29 Resource Libraries within DE, NJ, NY and PA:
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Mary Lou Klem, HSLS Reference Librarian and Co-Investigator for the Value of Libraries Study gave the library directors an update on the study and discussed future
directions. Finally, Martha Fishel, NLM, Chief, Public Services Division, discussed NLM's program to ensure the preservation and continued access to the historical literature through a new national cooperative medical journals print retention program.
NN/LM MAR has a wonderful group of Resource Library directors. The services they provide to the Network, as well as their guidance and support of the NN/LM MAR program are greatly appreciated.
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The UN Summit was only the beginning. Now we must transform the Political Declaration into action for diabetes on the ground, and hold all governments accountable to the commitments they made in New York. IDF continues to secure strong outcomes for diabetes in the follow up [2] to the UN Summit continues, and as future development goals [3] to replace the MDGs in 2015 are defined. We have launched a new advocacy strategy for 2012-2015, IDF's Roadmap to the Future Development Agenda [4], to guide our efforts. We also continue to call for the following urgent diabetes issues:
NOW - Invest in Diabetes
Although governments have recognised the scale of problem and are beginning to act, there is still a long way to go before we see the improvements + investments in diabetes prevention, treatment and care that we so desperately need.
→ All governments must establish multisectoral national diabetes/NCD plans by 2013, which must be costed, implemented and fully resourced
→ National plans must secure investment into the known cost-effective solutions for diabetes outlined in IDF's Global Diabetes Plan [5]
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People with diabetes – particularly vulnerable populations – are marginalized and discriminated against at work, at school and in their communities. We need urgent action to protect people with diabetes and those at risk.
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→ Engage and empower people with diabetes to be at the centre of the response, building a people's movement for diabetes worldwide
→ Pay special attention to vulnerable populations – especially women and indigenous people - and fight stigma and discrimination
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Diabetes + NCDs remain grossly neglected development priorities [7]. NCDs total 60% of the global disease burden, but receive less than 3% of Official Development Assistance spent on health. Major bilateral and multilateral aid agencies, and leading global health organisations, still simply refuse to fund NCDs. We need donors to fufill commitments in the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and align resources with the burden of global disease.


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Slippery Rock University celebrates 125 yearsJanuary 29, 2014 11:41 PM
At 11:30 this morning, Slippery Rock University and area churches will ring their bells to launch the university's "125 Kick Off Celebration," an official beginning of a yearlong celebration of the school's 125th anniversary.
The university was founded in 1889 as Slippery Rock State Normal School. It was created through the efforts of community residents who wanted to bring higher education through an institution to train men and women to be teachers. The school opened March 26, 1889.
The bell ringing is to be followed with a "Grand March" of students, faculty and staff that starts at Old Main, the oldest building on campus, and ends at the Smith Student Center, the newest building on campus.
Cheryl Norton, Slippery Rock's 16th president, is to lead the march and afterward will help launch the Green and White Society's yearlong "We Are The Rock" names project. Throughout the year, volunteers will read the names of approximately 80,000 students who have attended the university since its beginning.
Among other anniversary events coming up throughout the year:
* Feb. 4: Black History Month kicks off with a presentation of poetry and a video that features the parallels of historical moments at SRU within black history.
* March 26: Founder's Day with speakers and a birthday party including games and amusements for students in the Smith Student Center.
* March 28: "An Evening of the Arts" presented by the College of Humanities, Fine and Performing Arts, will celebrate the talent and contributions of SRU students and faculty.
* Oct. 18: Slippery Rock football team plays Mercyhurst University at the University of Michigan. The game will celebrate the 35th anniversary of Slippery Rock's first visit to the "Big House" and will try to break the Division II attendance record that was set at the 1979 game.
A comprehensive schedule of events may be found at: www.sru.edu/125celebration.
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Posted March 20, 2003; 05:42 p.m.
Community House will honor three local residents for their contributions and service to the Princeton community at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 6, at the Carl Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding .
James Floyd Sr., the first African-American mayor of Princeton Township, will be given the organization's Legacy of Service "Living Legend" Award. Albert Hinds and Clyde "Buster" Thomas also will receive Legacy of Service Awards, which are presented every two years.
Floyd, who was elected mayor in 1970, also founded the Princeton Association of Human Rights, was a trustee of the Princeton Community Housing Group and has been active in issues involving open and affordable housing and civil rights.
Hinds, 100, is the oldest living African American in Princeton and has served on the Princeton Borough zoning board, the board of Princeton Group Arts and the advisory committee of the Historical Society of Princeton.
Thomas has served on the board of trustees of the Princeton Nursery School and the Arts Council of Princeton and has been a mentor for African-American elementary school students in the community.
The awards ceremony is free and open to the public, but advance registration is required by March 30. To register, call Community House at (609) 258-6136.
Contact: Eric Quinones (609) 258-3601


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7 Cup Electric Water Kettle
Description & Highlights
Aroma 7 Cup Electric Water Kettle - Black
Create delicious hot beverages whenever you use the Aroma 7 Cup Electric Water Kettle (AWK-270B). Able to make up to 7 cups - or 1.7 liters - of hot water, you can be sure to make enough to serve to your friends and yourself. Being able to boil hot water gives you the ability to make several different hot drinks, including hot teas, cocoas, coffee, and many other specialty drinks that will leave you warm and satisfied. The quick boiling of this electric kettle ensures that you will get the desired results in as fast as a few minutes, while the one-touch operation makes this kettle easy to use.
Once the water is done boiling this kettle utilizes its auto shutoff feature to turn the kettle off so it doesn't boil over and spill on the counter, which means you won't have to clean up any messes that traditional kettles can make. Docked on a 360° swivel base, this cordless kettle enables you to pour the hot water into the cup without messing with lengthy cords that can get in the way. Ideal for anyone who loves hot drinks, this electric kettle will keep you warm when you need it the most.
Quick Boiling:The lightening fast quick boiling boils water at a cup-a-minute speed to give you desired results in just a few minutes
Easy Operation:The one-touch operation of this kettle makes it easy for anyone to use, so you won't need to worry about thick instruction manuals or hassling with customer service
Cordless Pouring:Utilizing the 360° swivel base to power the kettle during the boiling process, this unit can be easily poured without the use of cords
- Model: AWK-270BAroma 7 Cup Electric Water Kettle
- Brand: AromaOne-touch operation
- 7 cup capacityAuto shutoff
- Holds up to 1.7 litersBottom cord storage
- Quick water boilingShuts off once water is done boiling
- Cordless pouringInput voltage: 120 V/60 Hz
- 360° swivel baseWeight: 4 lbs
- Warranty: 1 yearDimensions: 9.9" H x 8.7" W x 7.2" D
- Height: 9.9"
- Width: 8.7"
- Depth: 7.2"