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Amorphophallus titanum
Amorphophallus titanum, also known as the titan arum, is a flowering plant with the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world. The titan arum's inflorescence is not as large as that of the talipot palm, Corypha umbraculifera, but the inflorescence of the talipot palm is branched rather than unbranched. The species is endemic to Sumatra.
|Amorphophallus titanum
|In bloom at New York Botanical Garden
June 27, 2018
|Scientific classification
A. titanum
|Binomial name
|Amorphophallus titanum
(Becc.) Becc. ex Arcang
Due to its odor, which is like the smell of a rotting corpse or carcass, the titan arum is characterized as a carrion flower, and is also known as the corpse flower or corpse plant (Indonesian: bunga bangkai—bunga means flower, while bangkai can be translated as corpse, cadaver, or carrion). For the same reason, the title corpse flower is also attributed to the genus Rafflesia.
Amorphophallus titanum derives its name from Ancient Greek ( άμορφος – amorphos, "without form, misshapen" + φαλλός – phallos, "phallus", and titan, "giant"). The popular name "titan arum" was coined by W.H. Hodge.[2]
Amorphophallus titanum is native solely to western Sumatra, and western Java where it grows in openings in rainforests on limestone hills.[3] However, the plant is cultivated by botanical gardens and private collectors around the world.[1]
The titan arum's inflorescence can reach over 3 metres (10 ft) in height. Like the related cuckoo pint and calla lily, it consists of a fragrant spadix of flowers wrapped by a spathe, which looks like a large petal. In the case of the titan arum, the spathe is a deep green on the outside and dark burgundy red on the inside, with a deeply furrowed texture. The spadix is hollow and resembles a large baguette. Near the bottom of the spadix, hidden from view inside the sheath of the spathe, the spadix bears two rings of small flowers. The upper ring bears the male flowers, the lower ring is spangled with bright red-orange carpels. The "fragrance" of the titan arum resembles rotting meat, attracting carrion-eating beetles and flesh flies (family Sarcophagidae) that pollinate it. The inflorescence's deep red color and texture contribute to the illusion that the spathe is a piece of meat. During bloom, the tip of the spadix is approximately human body temperature, which helps the perfume volatilize; this heat is also believed to assist in the illusion that attracts carcass-eating insects.
Both male and female flowers grow in the same inflorescence. The female flowers open first, then a day or two following, the male flowers open. This usually prevents the flower from self-pollinating.
After the flower dies back, a single leaf, which reaches the size of a small tree, grows from the underground corm. The leaf grows on a somewhat green stalk that branches into three sections at the top, each containing many leaflets. The leaf structure can reach up to 6 metres (20 ft) tall and 5 metres (16 ft) across. Each year, the old leaf dies and a new one grows in its place. When the corm has stored enough energy, it becomes dormant for about four months. Then the process repeats.
The corm is the largest known, typically weighing around 50 kg (110 lb).[4] When a specimen at the Princess of Wales Conservatory, Kew Gardens, was repotted after its dormant period, the weight was recorded as 91 kg (201 lb).[5] In 2006, a corm in the Botanical Garden of Bonn, Germany was recorded at 117 kg (258 lb),[6] and an A. titanum grown in Gilford, New Hampshire by Dr. Louis Ricciardiello in 2010 weighed 138 kg (305 lb).[7][8] However, the current record is held by a corm grown at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, weighing 153.9 kg (339 lb) after 7 years' growth from an initial corm the size of an orange.[9]
The titan arum grows in the wild only in the equatorial rainforests of Sumatra, Indonesia. It was first scientifically described in 1878 by Italian botanist Odoardo Beccari. The plant flowers only infrequently in the wild and even more rarely when cultivated. It first flowered in cultivation at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in London, in 1889, with over one hundred cultivated blossoms since then. The first documented flowerings in the United States were at New York Botanical Garden in 1937 and 1939. This flowering also inspired the designation of the titan arum as the official flower of the Bronx in 1939, only to be replaced in 2000 by the day lily. The number of cultivated plants has increased in recent years, and it is not uncommon for there to be five or more flowering events in gardens around the world in a single year. The titan arum is more commonly available to the advanced gardener due to pollination techniques.
In 2003, the tallest bloom in cultivation, some 2.74 m (9 ft 0 in) high, was achieved at the Botanical Garden of the University of Bonn in Germany. The event was acknowledged by Guinness World Records.[10] On 20 October 2005, this record was broken at the botanical and zoological garden Wilhelma in Stuttgart, Germany; the bloom reached a height of 2.94 m (9 ft 8 in). The record was broken again by Louis Ricciardiello, whose specimen measured 3.1 m (10 ft 2 in) tall on 18 June 2010, when it was on display at Winnipesaukee Orchids in Gilford, New Hampshire, US. This event, too, was acknowledged by Guinness World Records.[11][12]
In 2011, Roseville High School in California became the first high school in the world to successfully bring a titan arum to bloom.[13][14]
In cultivation, the titan arum generally requires 7 to 10 years of vegetative growth before blooming for the first time. After its initial blooming, there can be considerable variation in blooming frequency. Some plants may not bloom again for another 7 to 10 years while others may bloom every two to three years.[15] There have also been documented cases of back-to-back blooms occurring within a year[16] and corms simultaneously sending up both a leaf (or two) and an inflorescence.[17] There has also been an occasion when a corm produced multiple simultaneous blooms.[18]
The spathe generally begins to open between mid-afternoon[19] and late evening and remains open all night. At this time, the female flowers are receptive to pollination. Although most spathes begin to wilt within twelve hours, some have been known to remain open for 24 to 48 hours. As the spathe wilts, the female flowers lose receptivity to pollination.
Self-pollination is normally considered impossible, but in 1999, Huntington Botanical Garden botanists hand-pollinated their plant with its own pollen from ground-up male flowers. The procedure was successful, resulting in fruit and ten fertile seeds from which several seedlings eventually were produced.[20] Additionally, a titan arum at Gustavus Adolphus College, in Minnesota, unexpectedly produced viable seed through self-pollination in 2011.[21]
As the spathe gradually opens, the spadix releases powerful odors to attract pollinators, insects which feed on dead animals or lay their eggs in rotting meat. The potency of the odor gradually increases from late evening until the middle of the night, when carrion beetles and flesh flies are active as pollinators, then tapers off towards morning.[22] Analyses of chemicals released by the spadix show the stench includes dimethyl trisulfide (like limburger cheese), dimethyl disulfide, trimethylamine (rotting fish), isovaleric acid (sweaty socks), benzyl alcohol (sweet floral scent), phenol (like Chloraseptic), and indole (like feces).[23][24]
See list of publicised titan arum blooms in cultivation
Live-feed video:
- Rosie, began blooming Monday, April 23, 2018 at the Tucson Botanical Gardens in Tucson, AZ[25][26]
- Octavia, the eighth corpse flower to bloom in five years at the Missouri Botanical Garden, began blooming on July 9, 2017.[27]
- Kansas State University Gardens began blooming Tuesday June 27, 2017 in Manhattan, KS
- Little Dougie, bloom started Wednesday May 28, 2017 at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, CA[28]
- Audrey, began blooming Monday June 26, 2017 at California Carnivores in Sebastopol, CA[29]
- Terra, began blooming Thursday, June 15, 2017 at the Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco.[30]
- Java and Sumatra, began blooming Wednesday, May 31, 2017 at Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe, IL.[31]
- Wee Stinky, titan arum bloom, began blooming Friday, October 14, 2016 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.[32]
- Lupin, titan arum bloom, began blooming Thursday, September 22, 2016 at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina.[33]
- Pep le pew, blooming June 13, 2018 at Mitchell Park Domes, Milwaukee, WI[34]
- Putricia, blooming July 12, 2018 at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI[35]
- Morticia – blooming Oct 19, 2018 at Amazon Spheres Seattle, WA https://www.twitch.tv/AmazonHorticulture
- Bellatrix – blooming June 3, 2019 at Amazon Spheres Seattle, WA[36] https://www.amazon.com/b/?node=16517931011&channel=fdb908f9-30a0-4654-8c7d-47bc3e32d051
- Octavia – July 2019, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Awaiting bloom at any time. https://livestream.com/accounts/20357806/events/8730969
- Titan VanCoug – July 2019, WSU Vancouver, Vancouver, Washington, USA. Blooming July 15th. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNtuYsQx7BY
- Cleveland Metroparks Zoo - August 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHr2q7vdg8k
Time Lapse Videos:
- Titan arum bloom, July 2007 Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, name Cronus by Zoo Horticulture staff. The bloomed occurred early morning Monday, July 23, 2007, the elapsed time is about 48 hours from July 22, 2007.[37]
- Perry T. Titan, Gustavus Adolphus College, September 24 to November 7, 2013, from the corm until the spadix collapses 45 days later.[38]
- Ohio State University May 2012.[39]
- First flowering of 'Aaron' on 9–10 July 2015 at Botanical Garden of the Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.[40]
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew[41]
- Mount Lofty Botanic Garden, South Australia, bloomed December 29, 2015.[42]
- Adelaide Botanic Gardens, South Australia, bloomed February 1, 2016[43] and again on 3 January 2017.[44]
- College of Biological Sciences Conservatory, University of Minnesota, name Chauncey, bloomed in February 2016.[45]
- Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Ithaca, NY, bloomed 2012, 2014, 2015, and 2016.[46]
- Indiana University Bloomington, Wally, at the Jordan Greenhouse in Indiana University, bloomed July 2016.[47]
- Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Putricia, at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids, MI, bloomed July 2018.[48]
Huntington Library, San Marino, California August 24, 2014
A. titanum close up, Bayreuth University, Germany, June 7, 2015
"Putrella", Muttart Conservatory, Edmonton, Canada, April 7, 2015
- ^ a b Yuzammi & Hadiah, J.T. (2018). "Amorphophallus titanum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T118042834A118043213. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T118042834A118043213.en.CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter (link)
- ^ Hodge, W.H. (1962). "A Titan Arum Flowers" (PDF). ahsgardening.org. Retrieved 2019-01-15.
- ^ University of Connecticut (14 Feb 2011). "Amorphophallus titanum". Archived from the original on 2012-05-02. Retrieved 17 February 2011.
- ^ "Titan Arum Blooming". Events. UNC Charlotte Botanical Gardens. 2007. Retrieved 2008-10-28.
- ^ "About titan arum Amorphophallus titanum" (PDF). Information sheetO10. Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-10-15. Retrieved 2008-10-26.
- ^ "Titanenwurz — Bonner Blütenstände". 2013. Retrieved 2013-06-23.
- ^ Gilford Steamer (newspaper) July 1, 2010 pp. A1 & A9.
- ^ "Tallest bloom".
- ^ McDonald, Charlotte. "Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh – The story of our corm". www.rbge.org.uk. Retrieved 2017-07-14.
- ^ Botanic Garden of the University of Bonn. "Official Homepage of the Botanic Garden". Archived from the original on 28 January 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-08.
- ^ Tallest bloom. Guinness World Records.
- ^ Koziol, J. 2010. "Corpse flower" makes Guinness record. Fosters, September 24, 2010.
- ^ "Error 404 – Page Not Found".
- ^ "Fin Whale, Mountain Gorilla recovering thanks to conservation action – IUCN Red List". IUCN. 2018-11-14. Retrieved 2019-01-10.
- ^ Eastern Illinois University's Three Titan Arum Blooms 2012 Retrieved 2013-08-11
- ^ 'Big Bucky' 5/2009 and 6/2009, University of Wisconsin–Madison
- ^ 'Big Bucky' 5/2012 and 'Little Stinker' 9/2009, University of Wisconsin–Madison
- ^ University of Bonn Botanic Garden, Bonn, Germany Three blooms from one corm Retrieved 2013-08-11
- ^ Eastern Illinois University's Three Titan Arum blooms 2012. Retrieved 2013-08-11
- ^ Huntington Botanical Gardens, California Self-pollination Archived August 10, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2013-08-11
- ^ Gustavus Adolphus College Self-pollination 2011. Retrieved 2013-08-11
- ^ "Titan Arum—FAQ | Chicago Botanic Garden". www.chicagobotanic.org. Retrieved 2015-10-01.
- ^ American Chemical Society. The Chemistry of the Corpse Flower's Stench 2013
- ^ Cornell University. What made 'Wee Stinky' stink. 2012. Retrieved 2013-08-11
- ^ "Corpse Flower Cam: Watch Rosie Bloom in Real-Time from Tucson". 2018-04-23.
- ^ "Tucson 'corpse flower' watch: Rosie is blooming". Arizona Daily Star.
- ^ "Corpse Flower", Missouri Botanical Garden.
- ^ "Live view – AXIS P1344 Network Camera".
- ^ "Amorphophallus titanum".
- ^ "Corpse Flower Live Stream". Conservatory of Flowers.
- ^ "Meet java and Sumatra". Chicago Botanic Gardens.
- ^ ""Wee Stinky" titan arum cam". Cornell Cast – Cornell University.
- ^ "Corpse flower at NC State". College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
- ^ Pep le pew corpse flower bloom 2018
- ^ Putricia blooms at Meijer Gardens
- ^ "See it in person or watch online as Amazon's latest rare corpse flower is set to bloom inside Spheres". GeekWire. 2019-06-04. Retrieved 2019-06-06.
- ^ Time-lapse Video of Titan Arum Bloom, July 2007, retrieved 2015-08-22
- ^ Perry the Corpse Flower Full Bloom Cycle 2013, retrieved 2015-08-22
- ^ Giant Corpse Flower bloom – time lapse from two views, retrieved 2015-08-26
- ^ First flowering of Aaron
- ^ "Amorphophallus titanum". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2015-09-13.
- ^ "Timelapse flowering of the Titan arum at Mount Lofty Botanic Garden (first vision)". www.environment.sa.gov.au/botanicgardens/Home.
- ^ "Thousands queue for whiff of Adelaide 'corpse flower'". ABC News. February 2016. Retrieved 2016-02-02.
- ^ "Surprise corpse flower blooming creates suspected 'world first' at Adelaide Botanic Gardens". ABC News. 2017-01-03. Retrieved 2017-01-03.
- ^ Geena Fowles (1 February 2016). "Stinky Flower Blooms in Minnesota". America Herald.
- ^ "The Spadix Speaks: Cornell's Titan Arum Blog". Cornell University. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
- ^ "Corpse flower blooming time lapse (titan arum) at Indiana University". YouTube. Retrieved 2018-04-30.
- ^ "Meijer Gardens Corpse Flower Timelapse". YouTube. Retrieved 2018-08-13.
- Bown, Deni (2000). Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family. Timber Press. ISBN 0-88192-485-7
- Association of Education and Research Greenhouse Newsletter, volume 15 number 1.
External linksEdit
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Amorphophallus titanum.
|Wikispecies has information related to Amorphophallus titanum
- Three Webcams of Titan plus time-lapse videos at Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, Minnesota
- 3D Photo of 2004 bloom at Walt Disney World (Requires red/cyan 3D Glasses)
- List of bloomings in the US since 1937
- How to grow a Titan Arum
- Titan Arum at the Flower Park Kagoshima of Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan (in Japanese)
- Amorphophallus titanum YouTube video


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It is common belief that evil usually comes from people of the lower economic layers and those who have not received a decent education. While that may be true in various occasions, it is not the only answer. Before the Nazis were formed with Adolf Hitler as their top leader, every one of the members, including Hitler himself, had normal jobs or at least tried to become something normal in life. No one had already been a murdered or torturer. This is something that they were taught to do after their joined the Nazi party.
1. Adolf Hitler was a failed art student and a vagrant
Adolf Hitler was a failure as a human being, which proves the common belief about the source of evil right. He had a traumatic childhood and he kept being rejected by the Art Academy of Vienna. He spent time living in shelters and cheap motels before going back to Germany and becoming a member of the military during WWI.
2. Hermann Goering was a war hero and a pilot
Goering was a war pilot during WWI and received much attention about his achievements. He also worked briefly as a commercial pilot for a Swedish airline. After being injured during Hitler's failed attempt to take over Germany in the 1920s, he became addicted to morphine and finally got over his addiction after many visits to rehab.
3. Joseph Goebbels was a bank clerk and aspiring playwright
Goebbels had a PhD in German Philosophy, but never managed to publish the expressionist novel he wrote or the two plays he composed in 1923. He worked as a bank clerk to pay his bills until he joined the Nazi party, where his organizing and speaking abilities were finally recognized.
4. Heinrich Himmler was an unemployed student and agriculturalist
Himmler attended university to study agronomy, but his studies were cut short, since the German Depression made his parents unable to pay for them. He used to work in a manure-processing plant until his political career with the Nazis became a full-time job.
5. Hans Frank was an attorney
Frank was a prosperous lawyers, who was hired by Hitler as his personal legal advisor. He was given the title of Governor-General of Poland, where he conducted his most horrific actions. He was placed in trial at Nuremberg and was hanged on October 16, 1946.
6. Adolf Eichman was a snake oil salesman
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7. Joachim Von Ribbentrop was a rich wine merchant
Von Ribbentrop used to import German wine to Canada before going back to Germany for entering the WWI. After that, he married the daughter of a wealthy wine producer and continued his marketing career. He joined the Nazi party in 1928, but was not liked by many other members of the party. Finally, he was hanged for his actions in 1946.
8. Martin Bormann was an agricultural worker, estate manager and convicted felon
Bormann worked in a mill for a while until he found a job as an estate manager. He was a known anti-semite and spent a year in prison after he killed an informer. After huge efforts, he became Hitler's secretary and was the executor of his will. It is believed that he was killed in a breakout attempt from Hitler's bunker.
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Gore rang ka zamana, kabhi hoga na purana, Gori dar tujhe kis ka hay, Tera to rang gora hay.
Familiar with the demand for "gora rang" (fair complexion) for would the be daughter in- law? Believe it or not, it is one of the major problems faced by many girls especially as far as their 'getting married' is concerned. A girl is rejected on the basis of her color, no matter if she is a duly qualified, bright professional, well mannered, well groomed, and attractive. The only thing that matters is her gora chamri. And it makes no difference if the prospective groom is only the first copy of Rajni Kanth. Not that I'm against him, but I don't even think he can be a perfect suitor for Aishwarya Rai.
However, unfortunately it has now become a trend in our society. And this materialistic approach of our society shows that we still live in Stone Age, where we still consider woman as an object to be decked in one's showroom.
To change this mindset of our society is a difficult task indeed. Because in our part of the world "gora rang" is used as a yardstick to measure beauty. It is incomprehensible why we as a society and as individuals are so obsessed with it? Why we consider gora rang the acme of real beauty? Whereas in my opinion darker complexion looks far more attractive. And there are loads of other important things that should be taken into consideration other than skin color for the selection of a girl for the post of bride-to-be
Discrimination on the basis of color is a bigger sin then dowry, and so rejection on the basis of color is utmost humiliating for a girl that it pushes them into depression and even to suicide in extreme cases. To make one self-beautiful (considering gora rang the only criteria for beauty) demand for fairness formula or creams are also on rise for the past many centuries. And to further infuriate the situation we have advertisement of these fairness creams, which are on a drive to deceive.
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The Mind is a busy place full of activity and without any effort we jump from thought to thought in a matter of seconds. If our minds become too busy this flow of thinking can become too much for an individual to take and can feel overwhelming.
Different people have different ways of coping with a busy mind for example some people try to relax by watching TV, having a cup of tea or exercising. Although these are all good forms of coping strategies it also important that we take time to be mindful to understand the state of mind we are in to help us make positive decisions.
To do this be need to be aware of our various states of mind and what risks or potential these can have. This understanding can have a great impact on how we deal with different stressors in our lives
Linehan 1993 introduced the theory of "Wise Mind" Which is the part of our mind where our "reasonable mind" and "emotional mind" come together.
Reasonable mind helps us to make logical and rational decisions usually based on facts and evidence. On the other hand emotional mind is controlled by our emotional state where our thoughts can be unhelpful and not logical. Emotional mind is not all negative, and we do need to consider our emotional needs in order to make wise decisions i.e. being in "wise mind"
A third section was then introduced – "risky mind". This is when we let our emotional mind take over and our actions our dictated solely by our emotions.
When we feel upset or stressed we can react without thinking about the consequences and our behaviours we use to help us cope can often be self-destructive e.g. self harm, over eating, under eating, harm to other etc.
These coping strategies can often be a vicious circle which can be incredibly hard to break as these actions can lead us further into emotional mind and then again onto risky mind.
As health professionals we aim to help our clients/service users to develop more appropriate coping strategies. To do this we are required to help our clients understand the various frame of minds and be able to determine what frame of mind they are in and when they feel they are being controlled by their emotional mind. It important to try and react when clients are in emotional mind and intervene with coping strategies before they enter risky mind – Remember being proactive is more effective than reactive!


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Warrior Brashton Satele's appeal for extra year turned down by NCAA
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In an astonishing decision, the NCAA denied middle linebacker Brashton Satele's request for a medical exemption that would have allowed him to play as a sixth-year senior in 2010.
"I'm shocked," Satele said. "I thought I was coming back (to UH) for sure."
The NCAA ruled that Satele needed to prove he missed two seasons because of injuries. Satele had enough documentation for the 2009 season, but not enough for the 2005 season. Lee Ann Satele said the NCAA told them while they had documentation, it was postdated, and not actually from 2005. She said data was not collected at the time in 2005 because "nobody saw it would put us in this situation" several years later.
"We're all bummed," she said. "We gave it our best shot. But they wanted more information."
UH compliance officer Amanda Paterson said she was "disappointed" in the outcome, saying, "I thought we put on a strong case." But the lack of "contemporaneous documentation" notes written in 2005 from doctors and physical therapists hurt the appeal.
Satele is now available to be signed by the NFL. The draft is next week, and qualified players may be signed to free-agent contracts after that.
Right tackle Laupepa Letuli still is awaiting word on his appeal for a sixth year.
Paterson, who was named interim compliance officer in 2008, said that, during orientation meetings, student-athletes are instructed to collect contemporaneous documentation whenever they suffer an injury.


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I wasn't being a smart ass, I was being very serious. Its obvious, you got kicked out for starting crap and you're back at it again. Somethings never do change I guess. Your reply is a perfect example of what got you booted the first time, a simple remark and your rude as usual about it. I guess you forget that people have other things to do besides this forum, its the reason I wasn't on much this last week.
Back and your crap has started. Guess you didn't learn a thing from your vacation.
that one post was for me? thanks for breaking the COC again.
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It's when ever you have time. I try and write at least one per day.
Hey so I'm guessing you're not interested in writing anymore? Or you just don't have the time?
and oh he isnt a mod or anything at all over there, we just butt heads alot.
well there is a guy over at CIN and he goes by the name legend killer i believe and has the sig of that league champs zukes or whatever it is.
thats Steve and I can tell you for a fact that hes not a mod/admin on their site....I've been posting with Steve (Happy Gilmore) for over 10 years now....hes a really good guy and never butts heads with anyone.
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New accounts registration at popular Bittrex exchanges was resumed for some time, after almost 5 months of suspention.
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At the same time, Bittrex introduced an updated design of its site and trading platform and also increased security level, as company notes.
We've spent the past four years building Bittrex on the founding principles of innovation, security and responsibility. Given these principles, pausing new user signups during a period of immense trading volume was not a decision we took lightly, but our responsibility to provide customers with a reliable platform and outstanding customer service, made it the right thing to do. After diligently working to improve our infrastructure and upgrade our website, we're pleased to announce registration for new users resumed today.
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Shortly after the initial announcement, Bittrex announced that it had to suspend the registration again due to a huge wave of new users. The exchange promises to resume the process in the near future.
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An around-the-year guide to the Land of the Rising Sun
Japan is topping more must-visit lists than ever before, pulling in over 28 million people in 2017. And with a beguiling mix of futuristic cities and frozen-in-time landscapes, it's no wonder. From natural spectaculars and captivating festivals to the best hotels, Japan allures year round. So if you're having trouble pinning down a date, here are our top two experiences for each season.
Cherry blossom (sakura)
Spring sweeps across the Japanese map in a brush stroke of pink blossoms, starting from southerly Okinawa in January and reaching northerly Hokkaido in early May. The blossoms in historic Kyoto draw some of the biggest crowds. For a little more peace as you appreciate the show, head to the Izu peninsula for the Kawazu Cherry Blossom Festival.
Pacific island hopping
Spring is the perfect time to explore Japan's sub-tropical, south western islands before the weather gets too humid (or stormy). Pick up an Inter-Island flight pass to hop from the white sands of Okinawa to coral-fringed Miyakojima. Grown-up Studio Ghibli fans could bypass the crowded Ghibli Museum and visit Yakushima instead. This tiny island's mountains and ancient, mossy cedar forests inspired the setting for Princess Mononoke.
Where to stay
Experience the Kawazu Cherry Blossom Festival from the stylish Abba Resorts Izu. Soak up the sea views from The Terrace Club at Busena in Okinawa – and the mountain horizons from Sankara Hotel & Spa Yakushima.
Escaping the city
Humid summers can make staying in cities such as Tokyo hard work. Head for the cooler climes of Hokkaido, which transforms from winter sports wonderland to summer adventure playground. Base yourself in Niseko to go rafting and hiking in the surrounding mountains.
Traditional festivals
August is a holiday month across Japan, with people taking part in countless festivals. Obon is one of the most colourful – from crowds wearing traditional yukata summer kimonos to dancers performing Bon Odori in honour of their ancestors. One event which may tempt you back to Tokyo is the Sumida-gawa Fireworks Festival – the biggest of its kind in the country.
Where to stay
Kasara Niseko Village Townhouse has just eight rooms, and puts a contemporary spin on traditional Japanese design. If you're in Tokyo for the firework festival, Hotel Gajoen has expansive gardens ideal for relaxing in the summer heat.
City sightseeing
Autumn ties with spring for the most comfortable time, weather-wise, to explore Japan's cities. But, with no cherry blossom, it should be less crowded. Get to know Tokyo's distinct neighbourhoods, from stately Chiyoda-ku (home to the Imperial Palace) and arty Meguro to tech-Mecca Akihabara Electric Town. Or take your camera to Kyoto to capture red-painted Buddhist temples, green bamboo groves and views of Mount Fuji.
Autumn colours (koyo)
If you haven't already filled up your memory card, you certainly will if you're still in Kyoto in November. This is when the leaves start to turn, and the temple gardens are spotted with fiery reds and deep yellows. At Jingoji Temple just north of the city, illuminations mean the show goes on until after dark.
Where to stay
A stay at the red-brick, pre-war Tokyo Station Hotel makes a fascinating contrast to the surrounding skyscrapers. For day trips into Kyoto and hillsides drenched in autumn colours, it has to be L'Hotel du Lac – not too far from Japan's ancient capital, on the shores of Lake Biwa.
Snow sports
Japan may not rival Austria or France when it comes to extensive ski areas – but you're guaranteed to have more space to yourself. Popular resorts include Niseko on Hokkaido and Karuizawa, which is easily reached from Tokyo. After a day on the slopes, warm up with seasonal favourites such as warmed sake and sizzling nabe hot pots.
Hot spring bathing
Brave the chill winter air and take part in a quintessentially Japanese experience: bathing in a hot spring (or onsen). They're dotted all around the country's islands, with many luxury hotels counting them among their charms. One of the most unusual is Hirauchi Kaichu on Yakushima – a rocky pool right on the beach that's only visible at low tide. Most onsen are separated by gender, and make sure to follow local etiquette and wash before you get in.
Where to stay
Karuizawa Prince Hotel East puts the Karuizawa ski resort on your doorstep. It also has a stylish spa that includes open air onsen.


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Both my girls are strong-willed individuals with very unique personalities. But one thing I've learned from them, is that while some personality traits are present straight from birth, other characteristics babies have can change quickly. This can be both good and bad, but it demonstrates how important it is to avoid labelling your child. Particular characteristics may endure, but many difficult habits and behaviours can be outgrown.
Big A has been a high-maintenance from day one. She has never been good at entertaining herself and always wants adult attention as well as physical contact and closeness (she doesn't even like to watch t.v. without Adam or I sitting on the couch with her...wanting to stab our eyes out with an exacto because we are forced to watch a repeat episode of Caillou for the millionth time!).
She has always been a big wimp about boo boos.
Thankfully, Big A did not get into a lot of trouble around the house so we didn't have to do much baby proofing.
Big A started out as a champion sleeper who was doing 7 straight hours every night by the time she was 5 or 6 weeks old. Since then, however, we have had to deal with periodic bouts of night terrors, bed wetting, night time bathroom calls, and some very, VERY early wake-ups.
Little A was a terrible sleeper for the first 4 months until we sleep trained her. I was ready to lose my mind because of the frequency of her wake-ups. But now? She is a great little sleeper, generally clocking 12 hours a night, plus another 90-120 minutes for a midday nap. I often have to wake her around 8am, just to get Big A to school on time! I think I can count the number of times Big A has slept until 8am on one hand.
If you have been reading this blog from the beginning, than you will also recall that Little A was a TERRIBLE eater. She literally had me tearing my hair out for the first 9-10 months of her solid food eating life. And now? She is a human vacuum cleaner. When I come to pick her up at daycare, she only wants to eat "nacks" all the way home in the stroller. I always worry she will ruin her dinner, but as soon as we get home she is screaming for dinner and she routinely eats twice as much as Big A.
Adam and I decided she must not be eating the lunches they serve at daycare, but when I checked with her teachers last week, I was told she eats a HUGE lunch and lots of "nacks".
She also loves to eat off of our plates and will even gobble down some of the spicier, more exotic dishes I make for Adam and I (as long as we don't serve it to her on her own plate!).
Little A's least attractive feature is her high-pitched, hysterical scream which she emits whenever she doesn't get her way. And that has been present since birth. In fact, she was doing this glass-shattering shriek when Dr. M pulled her out of my uterus. This is one trait I would very happily see her get rid of!
Little A had serious seperation anxiety for at least the first year of her life, to the point where I could not get 2 feet away from her before she would become hysterical. And now? She rarely cries when I drop her off at daycare, but will sometimes cry when I pick her up because she is having so much fun. Last week when Adam said we were taking them to my in-laws (whom she loves), she went and got her coat and shoes and said, "Bye mommy".
From the moment she first got her hands on solid foods, Little A has been the master mess-maker. She reminds me of the Tasmanian Devil because not only does she constantly move at warp speed, but she also leaves a path of destruction in her wake. Some of it is intentional (throwing food, dumping out hundreds of puzzle pieces, flinging all the contents of her play kitchen onto the floor, colouring her face and hands with markers, pulling out all the Kleenex, shredding rolls of toilet paper, etc.), but some of it just seems to be innate.
Even if we have her eating dinner seated at the table with a full-body bib (my mom's thoughtful gift), she still manages to get food on her clothing, the chair and the floor. Adam and I cannot get close to her without getting our own clothes dirty, stained and sticky.
If it weren't for Maria, who cleans our house every Wednesday, we would live in a complete pig sty.
The pale pink winter jacket and snow pants she inherited from Big A are constantly filthy. My mother-in-law is so grossed out by it, she throws them in the wash each time Little A visits. I think I had to wash the jacket maybe 3 times the whole winter Big A wore it.
Little A actually seems to revel in filth. Give her a lollipop and within minutes her entire sticky face looks like a lint brush. She seems to enjoy finding and eating food off the floor...in public places. She also enjoys rolling around on the floor of public places - this partially explains the state of her pink jacket.
Little A also regularly pees in the bath and has now pooped in it about half a dozen times (Adam and I don't think Big A ever did this). Last night, after finally taking ownership of her flatulence - normally when she toots, she yells "daddy's gas!" but last night she squealed with delight when she tooted, pointed at her bum and yelled, "Gas, gas!" - she had a poo explosion in the tub. Adam had to scramble to get both girls out ASAP. He wanted to chuck all the bath toys but I argued that a good soaking in soapy water could save them. While I cleaned out the mess, Little A watched and kept yelling, "Stinky, stinky", until finally I got rid of all the filth and she began waving, "Bye Bye Poo".
Little A also enjoys sticking her fingers in any orifice she can find...both her own and other people's.
Am I worried that she will grow up to have poor personal hygiene? No, not really. I'm anticipating (and hoping) that this too shall pass. If not, perhaps she can co-host a show on cable television with Tom Green.


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Iceland´s rugged yet charming east coast is a wonderful place to visit. Pretty little fishing villages nestle among the fjords, while lush farmlands and forests complete add to the charm. The region is sparsely populated, yet it is regarded as the creative hub of Iceland.
Check the articles we have wrote about East Iceland:
Discover the Wonders of the East
Seyðisfjörður is the landing place for the Smyril Line ferry from Europe, and home to a vibrant art scene. In the summer months people from all over Iceland and beyond converge on the area to enjoy the numerous art and music festivals that have been popping up in recent years.
The whole area is steeped in artistic history. Iceland´s most famous and beloved painter Jóhannes Sveinsson Kjarval grew up in the small town of Borgarfjörður eystri. The town provided the backdrop to much of his early work, and a museum dedicated to his life and work now takes pride of place in the town.
Many of Iceland´s typical natural features can be found in the area. In the South East lies Vatnajökull, Europs´s largest glacier that is as imposing as it is impressive.
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The tree sale programme began in 1999, under the banner of the Mississippi Mills Chamber of Commerce. In 2015, thanks to the generosity of the Mississippi Mills Chamber of Commerce, Hub Hospice Palliative Care was able to carry on the legacy of this greening initiative as a fundraiser to support home palliative care services.
The trees we purchase are grown in a commercial nursery, shaped and root pruned while they are young. They are harvested in the late fall and overwintered in a climate controlled dormant state that mimics the outdoors. In the spring our tree order is shipped to us by overnight transport. Within hours they are packed in airtight bags with the proper amount of moisture ready for pickup.
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Starring (voice): Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, Simon Abkarian
The story of a young girl who witnesses the rise and fall of Iran and its evolution from a free monarchy to an intolerant democracy. Like any other country of its time, Iran too was ruled by a ruler, the Shah of Iran. The Shah's ruthlessness against his enemies and those who opposed him did not go down well with his citizens and was eventually overthrown in the Iranian Revolution. Marjane Satrapi (Mastroianni) was brought up in a contemporary Muslim family, where freedom and western lifestyle was easily accepted and widely protested against the Shah and wanted Iran to be free. When Islamic Fundamentalists win the first general elections with a landslide victory, the peoples hopes of any freedom are squashed. Woman are forced to cover themselves from head to toe, all forms of music and entertainment are banned and life becomes hard to get by. Marjane's parents do not want her to be brought up in this Iran and send her off to Europe to experience a good life with freedom and education. If it is a lesson in history that you seek, the movie accurately recounts the Iranian Revolution and depicts modern fundamentalist Iran very accurately. The childish but yet modern animation is clever and easy to watch and makes the movie much lighter than what it would have been in regular print. An autobiographical movie is made only when the persons life story has something unique to narrate. Apart from being a part of a revolution at a young age, most of Marjane's life is like any other teenage girl and does not reflect a uniqueness that it should have. A slow and slightly tedious movie but a must watch for history lovers.
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The Hashtag Youth Video Series: 2013 Edition/
Our group is a week behind on starting the Hashtag Youth Video series, but nevertheless, we will begin our 13-week journey through this excellent video series this evening.
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Lester F. Aponte is Senior Counsel with the law firm of Young, Zinn & Bate, LLP, where he specializes in the representation and counseling of employers in all aspects of labor and employment law. Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Lester has been a proud Angelino for over 20 years.
Lester has been a member of Stonewall's Steering Committee since 2008. He is a founding member and a member of the Board of the Latino Equality Alliance, and a member of the Board of Love Honor Cherish, a Los Angeles-based marriage equality organization. He also formerly served as Regional President and Chair of the LGBT Committee of the Hispanic National Bar Association.
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Beer Sherpa Recommends: Double Mountain My Little Runaway
There's been entirely too much chat about the business of beer: let's talk about beer itself for a change. Today's selection comes to us from Hood River, where Double Mountain founder and orchard-owner Matt Swihart has been making tasty fruit beers for several years. His
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, a wild cherry ale that bubbles away under a
cap over in one corner of the brewery throughout the year. He may actually have topped himself with My Little Runaway, however, which is one of the best beers I've tried in recent memory.
at the New School.
There's not a ton of info about Runaway except that it was fermented with the Ardennes yeast, made with Van and Bing cherries and "a tiny stolen blend of next year's Devil Kriek to commingle as sweet, refreshing cherry ale with the ghost of bitterness." (Someone at the brewery has lately gotten poetic with the press releases.) I considered trying to track down more info, but sometimes the less you know, the more you taste, so I let my mouth give me the tour.
Superficially, Runaway presents itself like a light frolic of sweetness and cherries, frothy and kissed with sweetness. Uncareful tasters might not notice anything more and be plenty happy with that. But there's more going on. It's got a touch of acidity, which gives it some vinous balance (I think wine drinkers would absolutely love this beer). A mouthful evolves in short order past the fruit into something earthy and spicy, which read to me like tannins. (Cherry pits?) A hint of leathery
accentuates this quality and also dries the beer out as you swallow. It is a wild ale, but just barely--and in this I think there's a lesson. Breweries often let their wild beasts roam too freely, and the aggressively sour and/or dry beers that result are too much for all except the most inveterate sour-heads. If all wild ales were at this level of intensity, though, they could find a mass audience. (Maybe the fact that the label nowhere identifies it as such is telling.) It's hard to imagine who wouldn't enjoy this beer.
There has been a lot of talk about
lately, and My Little Runaway is instructive for another reason. It may well have mass appeal, but it's the kind of beer that's probably almost impossible to make on a mass scale. It employs whole fruit, which is a pain in the ass to work with in large volumes, but more importantly gets its secret ingredient from an aging wild ale, the king of the unscalable beers. You might be able to find a workaround to get a beer
like this if you wanted to brew 2 million barrels, but those spicy tannins, that delicate dryness--I can't imagine how you could mass-market that. Little breweries often make the best beer because some of the best beer can't be made in giant volumes.
Do yourself a favor and track down My Little Runaway (bottles are supposed to be available in PDX, but if you happen to be in the Gorge, make a special trip to Double Mountain)--it will remind you of just how good beer can be.
"Beer Sherpa Recommends" is an irregular feature. In this fallen world, when the number of beers outnumber your woeful stomach capacity by several orders of magnitude, you risk exposing yourself to substandard beer. Worse, you risk selecting substandard beer when there are tasty alternatives at hand. In this terrible jungle of overabundance, wouldn't it be nice to have a neon sign pointing to the few beers among the crowd that really stand out? A beer sherpa, if you will, to guide you to the beery mountaintop. I don't profess to drink all the beers out there, but from time to time I stumble across a winner and when I do, I'll pass it along to you.


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Economic Disasters of the Twentieth Century
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Chapter 7: Stock Market Crashes
Geoffrey E. Wood
Geoffrey E. Wood1 There is, unsurprisingly, no formal, rigorous definition of what comprises a stock market crash, as opposed to a fall, decline, or, to borrow a broker's term, correction. The fall in stock prices in the United States in 1929 is regarded universally as a crash, but it owes this to the vividness of J.K. Galbraith's writing and to his choosing of book titles – his 1955 book was called the The Great Crash. Because that stock market fall was so large, and because of its dramatic economic aftermath, that episode will undoubtedly figure in this chapter. It will, indeed, be a core episode, as the period has been thoroughly studied, and thus provides a good basis to evaluate the connection between market crashes and the subsequent behaviour of the economy. Of course there have been, as goes without saying so far as readers of the financial pages are concerned, other sharp market falls. Those examined here, in addition to 1929 in the United States, are London in 1914, the behaviour of the London market over the period 1929–31 and East Asia in 1999/2000. 1940 and 1974 in London are also touched on, but only briefly. The aim, in other words, is not to be comprehensive – impossible in the absence of agreement about what comprises a 'crash' – but rather to focus on some major individual episodes that will help clarify the extent to which and way in which stock market crashes are 'economic disasters'. The structure...
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On November 18, the Chicago City Council adopted an ordinance that regulates drone flight within the city limits. During my testimony on the proposal, co-sponsoring Alderman Ed Burke asked if this was the first municipal law on drones. "It's the first good one," I said.
The ordinance excepts section 333 exemption holders as long as they fly within the limitations imposed by their exemption and its accompanying COA, and allows recreational hobbyist flight according to rules specified in the ordinance. The rules basically track the AMA model aircraft guidelines and the FAA's guidance for hobbyist and recreational flight. For operations covered by the ordinance, it limits flights to below 400 feet in daylight hours, requires that drone operators ("DROP"), keep their vehicles within their line of sight, and prohibits flights over people and over private property without consent. It also limits flights over schools, churches, large assemblies, and electric utility infrastructure.
Because of the way it exempts section 333 operations and recreational flight within AMA rules, it effectively targets casual recreational users not affiliated with a model aircraft club and commercial operators who have not received a section 333 exemption. In other words, it focuses local regulatory resources on the two sources of the greatest safety threats from irresponsible drone use. Importantly, it allows local police and prosecutors to enforce FAA restrictions by incorporating FAA rules into local law.
The ordinance, as enacted, is a vast improvement over the original version introduced on 29 July 2015. As originally introduced, the ordinance prohibited all drone flights unless the operator registered with the city, paid a registration fee, and demonstrated liability coverage. The original version made no effort to dovetail its provisions with FAA rules and imposed additional local restrictions on section 333 exemption holders.
At a hearing before the city Council's aviation committee on 12 October, all but one of about a dozen witness testified in favor of the ordinance. They urged Chicago to encourage innovation and job creation by allowing the benefits of this revolutionary aviation technology to be enjoyed by individuals and small businesses. Colin Hinkle, proprietor of Soaring Badger Productions, LLC, testified about his experience as a professional news photographer who captured drone imagery for the first live television broadcast for local ABC affiliate WLS. Matt Bieschke, President of UAS America Fund, testified about the potential of small drones. "I am glad to see the steps you are taking to formalize the recognition that unmanned aircraft hold tremendous promise for improving the lives of City residents and those that work here, but also the potential for generating local economic activity and most importantly attracting companies and businesses that embrace the potential drones will bring. The drafts of your proposed ordinance . . . are an excellent start towards proactively establishing a safe environment for commercial drone operations," he said.
Dennis Lyle, president of the Illinois Broadcasters Association, pointed out the benefits that drones bring to newsgathering and urged that the ordinance explicitly recognize First Amendment rights of news organizations to use drones. Albert Plawinski, a second-year law student at Chicago-Kent College of Law, explained the many autonomous safety features that mass-market drones have. He noted the trend toward open software, which allows developers to enhance safety features and to collect actual flight data that will permit manufacturers to improve drone capabilities. John Kolaczynski, representing the Commercial Drone Fund, emphasized the importance of rapid deployment of drone technology to the health of Chicago's hi-tech community.
Ryan Twose, leader of the AUVSI Heartland Chapter and organizer of a local drone interest group, said, "In Chicago, we want to build on the success and benefits of UAS by attracting and retaining more talented individuals and leading-edge corporations. At the same time, we want to ensure the technology is being used safely and responsibly by all users — both those operating commercially and recreationally."
The only one testifying against the ordinance was a community activist who regularly testifies on almost any matter coming before the city Council and generally opposes whatever the council has on his agenda.
The two co-sponsors of the ordinance, Alderman Scott Waguespack and Alderman Ed Burke, expressed concerns about safety, but also recognized that states and municipalities must allow for active drone use in commerce and recreation.
"We must promote public safety without unreasonably limiting innovation," co-sponsor Burke said. "This ordinance codifies common sense." Co-sponsor Waguespack was instrumental in inviting me and others to suggest fundamental changes to the original proposal.
The ordinance is not perfect, in large part because it follows the FAA's limitations on commercial flight, which have a number of shortsighted limitations, including overly restrictive prohibitions on flying over people, prohibitions against night flight, limiting flights to line of sight only, and requirements for a separate visual observer and a traditional pilot's license. All of these constrain utility for newsgathering.
But all the witnesses and all the alderman present signaled flexibility to amend the ordinance as the city and professional drone operators gain experience with it. This means that, as the FAA makes progress in response to input by journalists and others, the city can follow suit. Unfortunately, municipalities lack the power under federal-preemption law to allow operations that the FAA prohibits. So the ball still largely is in the FAA's court, when it comes to opening up this revolutionary aviation technology to enhance newsgathering.
The Chicago process also shows American democracy at its best. A bad proposal turned into a good law, because the sponsors were open to receiving expert opinion on how to make it better. Individuals and interest groups recognizing the potential of drones to improve newsgathering and other socially beneficial activities were active in submitting specific proposals to improve the legislative language, while also pragmatically recognizing the need for legislative bodies to be responsive to public concerns.
News organizations and other drone operators will be fortunate if other cities follow Chicago's lead.
Henry Perritt, Jr. is is a law professor and former dean at Chicago-Kent College of Law. He has written and co-written several articles about the potential use of drones in newsgathering, and co-owns a company, Modovolate Aviation, LLC; which was formed to conduct drone research, experimentation, demonstration, and education.


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When the New Horizons spacecraft arrived at Pluto in 2015, the probe revealed the dwarf planet's true nature: Pluto is a frozen lump, but it is an odd and interesting lump. Pluto has a heart-shaped icecap that, in theory, could hide an ocean. For no obvious reason, Pluto spits out X-rays. And when New Horizons took Pluto's temperature, the dwarf planet was even colder than anyone had predicted. Researchers were puzzled.
Earthbound instruments gauged Pluto to be minus-280 degrees Fahrenheit. New Horizons showed that Pluto's thermostat was dialed to 330 degrees below. Pluto makes the coldest spot on Earth seem downright balmy: In 2013, researchers announced that a NASA satellite observed a record Antarctic chill at minus 135.8, a temperature humans could survive for just three minutes.
You would expect Pluto to be chilly. The dwarf planet drifts through the solar system's back roads at an average distance of 3.67 billion miles from the sun. Earth is 40 times as close to our star.
Pluto is small, which means its gravity is weak. Lacking a firm grip, its atmosphere leaks into space.
In fact, the thinness of Pluto's atmosphere made estimating its temperature from Earth very difficult, said Xi Zhang, a planetary scientist at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Pluto is not so far away that the chemicals in its atmosphere are immune to sunlight. Researchers hypothesize that the sun's ultraviolet rays break down nitrogen, methane and other gases in Pluto's atmosphere, creating a haze of solid particles.
"New Horizons' images basically showed a lot of haze particles," Zhang said. Zhang and his colleagues, in a report published in the journal Nature this week, argue that Pluto's hazy coat explains why the dwarf planet is extra-chilly.
Pluto's haze is so abundant that it can absorb a lot of solar radiation, Zhang said, though there's a good deal of uncertainty about this complex atmospheric chemistry.
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Whenever you gather up all the items that you need, then you are well equipped to learn to sew. One of the options you can settle with is taking a sewing course, however, this is more the most expensive option. If you pay a visit to the local library you will be supplied with a good amount of books on sewing that will help in developing your new skills.


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Matt Hunter tried to break up a fight and ended up killing a person. He has served his time and married. Finally things seem to be on the right track. His wife, Olivia is pregnant and they will soon be closing on their dream house.
Olivia goes on an out-of-town job assignment and Matt gets a phone call showing Olivia in a hotel room with a man. It seems like his wife is cheating on him.
What follows is a twisting and turning story that says you can't leave your past behind. I did like this story but found there were too many characters. I also found that the last twist concerning Olivia was just a little bit too much. However it is also nice that a bad guy like Matt is one the reader is rooting for the whole story.
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We all face choices throughout our lives whether to hire someone or tackle a job ourselves. We might decide to paint our bedroom rather than hire a painter, or spackle the ceiling ourselves instead of calling a contractor.
The effects of such choices are not life-changing. As long as we're happy with the job we did, the calculation is based on how much we enjoy the results and value our free time. The equation changes though when it comes to our careers. In that case, outsourcing can be shortsighted because it deprives us of gaining marketable skills and having more control over our budgets.
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This is especially true with programmatic advertising. Many marketers assume that they missed the boat on learning programmatic. As a result, they think managing programmatic campaigns consists of interfacing with an ad partner by updating insertion orders (IOs) and setting CPM targets. If this is you, you're mistaken. Programmatic is still so new that there are really no experts. If you don't learn it, then you've likely made yourself vulnerable to being replaced at some point. You've also missed a chance to drive more revenue for your company, which is the most straightforward way to show your value to an employer.
Programmatic advertising is more than a means of buying and selling ads. It's also a vehicle for uncovering data and insights about consumers that can lead to more personalized experiences for them.
Without any data to back up your ad creative decisions, you'll rely purely on intuition. But it's the data from your programmatic campaigns that fuels great creative on not just display, but other marketing channels.
Imagine a men's fashion retailer that photographed four different models, each of whom looked like one of their target personas. You could run different ads with different models across display channels to test what combinations drive the most sales for each persona. You can then take this ad creative and use it in targeted email campaigns or out-of-home advertising. These vital insights allow a brand to confidently run personalized campaigns at scale.
If you don't learn programmatic, then you've likely made yourself vulnerable to being replaced at some point. You've also missed a chance to drive more revenue for your company, which is the most straightforward way to show your value to an employer.
If you work with a third party whose methods of executing programmatic buys are unknown to you, then you'll never be aware of such data. Most likely your agency won't be aware of it either because their payment is based on media buys, not delivering insights.
To be more hands-on with programmatic, you need to understand it. The reality is that many people in advertising don't. A 2016 survey from Amobee, for instance, found that only 11% of small agency creatives said they were confident they understood programmatic advertising. A Forrester survey from 2014 found that only a quarter of marketers at the time said they understood programmatic buying well enough to use it.
There's little evidence that this has changed, so there's a great opportunity here for marketers that could be lost. Analysts predict that by 2020, knowledge of programmatic and data skills will be in even greater demand. The talent pool for programmatic is pretty limited and you'll stand out from the crowd if you truly understand it.
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The good news is that programmatic is so new that there are few experts. If you get past the industry jargon — which can be like learning a new language — many programmatic concepts aren't that hard to understand. Ultimately, programmatic consists of buyers on one side, sellers on the other and brokers in the middle. If you're looking to get up to speed quickly, here are some concepts to master:
As more brands look to move their programmatic in house, being a liaison to a third-party programmatic agency doesn't offer great job security. But being knowledgeable about programmatic does, especially if you're able to determine if your agency has been ripping you off, as saving money is just as important as making it.
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That's why it's time to rethink outsourcing programmatic and grasp it instead. Take for example Unilever, Netflix, P&G and Allstate. These are major brands that have entire teams solely focused on programmatic.
If you spend the time to figure out the basics — perhaps the amount of time it takes to paint a room and spackle a ceiling — then you'll have made a major investment in your career and your company will be better off because of it.
A version of this article originally appeared on Forbes.