UFO Underground No. 4: Is June 11 the Next Big Disclosure Date?
Rosemary, do you happen to know if the New York Times article is co-written by Leslie Kean? One thing that was interesting about the the New York Times story in December last year was the Kean was a co-writer on that story. I never heard from the UFO Community of how Leslie was involved. Back in the early 2000s, she was actively involved in reporting on ufology stories and was a featured speaker in some of the documentaries that appeared on TV. So I didn't know whether she had moved over to the New York Times as a staff writer or was just a contributor to that Dec. report.
I don't know for certain if she had a hand in the new article. I would expect her to be involved, if not in that piece but in upcoming ones, since she has established a high profile in the field. See My UFO Underground No. 2 for more on the mystery metal.
Nick Pope was on Tucker Carlson's program this evening, so who knows.
This disclosure - so called - is so lame I really can't care about it any more. It's like saying the entire history of WWII is Hitler started a war but the other guys won. There is no meat to it. It's a joke.
I feel so blessed having had my own personal disclosure already.
Attempted Abduction by a "Lobster-Thing"
Wonder how far is it from 33rd parallel?
This series of three articles is really interesting. Thank you very much for sharing this information, I will be waiting for more. Regards!
Great article but skeptical about disclosure. This is too much info for release.
Governments are of the opinion that the public could not handle any major disclosure. If it is to happen they want a drip feed system in place.
I speculate that the drip-drip approach has nothing to do with disclosure, but rather is a metered effort to monetize the UFO narrative in the same way that cap and trade was intended to monetize the global warming narrative. TTSA is, after all, a for profit enterprise, even if they pretend it isn't.
Insightful piece on the greatest mystery of our time. "What will we get next" as part of the acknowledgement of UFOs by the government/military is certainly unpredictable. But articles such as this one helps open eyes to focus on a phenomenon given too little attention by researchers and the general public. Thanks for the "wake up" call Rosemary. I concur with your viewpoints.
While I was lying in my bed during the night I glanced at the wardrobe and I saw red eyes inside. I noticed that they were not staring at me but at the bible that was beside me.
TY for this. Have followed you and read your books and found them insightful and informative. Grew up w/travels to a mountain area where some high strangeness has been reported, associated w/mountains, also with native American history. Seems to be our natural historians were right on the money.
Thank you Rosemary! I love everything you write about!! Especailly the Djinn, but my other favorite thing that deeply intrigues me are the skinwalkers!! Thank you so much for sharing.
How does one tell the difference between a dogman and a skinwalker in these circumstances? Do skinwalkers have more human features?


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Carbon hexoxide or carbon hexaoxide is an oxide of carbon with an unusually large quantity of oxygen. The molecule has been produced and studied at cryogenic temperatures. The molecule is important in atmospheric chemistry and in the study of cold ices in the outer solar system and interstellar space. The substance could form and be present on Ganymede or Triton, moons in the outer solar system. The molecule consists of a six membered ring with five oxygen and one carbon atom, and one oxygen with a double bond with the carbon.

Shape
The molecule that has been observed has a Cs symmetry.  The ring is not a flat hexagon but puckered with slightly different side lengths and angles (120°) from the regular hexagon. Going around the ring starting at the carbon to oxygen bond the interatomic distances are C–O: 1.362 Å O–O 1.491 Å, O–O 1.391 Å, O–O 1.391 Å, O–O 1.491 Å, and O–C 1.362 Å. The angles between the bonds are: O–C–O 120.4 °, C–O–O 115.7°, O–O–O 105.9°, and the opposite from carbon O–O–O 104.1°.  For the double carbon to oxygen bond, the length is 1.185 Å and the angle from the single bonds is 119.6°.

Formation
In an experiment, carbon hexoxide was formed by irradiating solid carbon dioxide with electrons at an energy of 5000 eV at 10 K in a vacuum. The reaction proceeds by breaking atomic oxygen from carbon dioxide:

CO2 → CO + O

The atomic oxygen then reacts with carbon dioxide to form carbon trioxide, and similar reactions occur to generate the series of ring oxides carbon tetroxide and carbon pentoxide, ultimately leading to the formation of carbon hexoxide in an exothermic reaction.

CO2 + O → O2CO
O2CO + O → O3CO
O3CO + O → O4CO
O4CO + O → O5CO ΔH = −145.2 kJ mol−1

Properties
Carbon hexoxide is stable up to 60 K. Vibrational infrared wavenumbers include the most prominent ν1 = 1876 cm−1 for the most common isotopologue 12C16O6.

Other isomers
Other possible isomers of carbon hexoxide are the C2 form with a five and three membered ring, and the D2d with two four membered rings. The D2d O3CO3 isomer has a calculated C–O bond length of 1.391 Å, and an O–O length of 1.469 Å. The O–C–O bond angle is 94.1°.  However these two isomers have not been observed.

The equivalent carbon hexasulfide is also known from inert gas matrix study. It has C2 symmetry with the same atomic arrangement as the hexoxide.

References

Oxocarbons

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import Fitness from 'genetics/fitness/Fitness';

import { listAttacks, positionHash } from './util';

function positionKey (row, column) {
  return `${row},${column}`;
}

function hashGenes (genes) {
  const hash = {};
  for (let i = 0; i < genes.length; i += 2) {
    hash[positionKey(genes[i], genes[i + 1])] = true;
  }
  return hash;
}

export default class FewestAttacks {
  constructor (config) {
    this.config = config;
  }

  getFitness (current) {
    const attackHashSet = new Set();

    for (let i = 0; i < current.genes.length; i++) {
      const attacks = listAttacks(current.genes[i], this.config.boardSize);
      for (let j = 0; j < attacks.length; j++) {
        attackHashSet.add(positionHash(attacks[j].row, attacks[j].col));
      }
    }

    return new Fitness(attackHashSet.size, true);
  }

  getTargetFitness () {
    return new Fitness(this.config.boardSize * this.config.boardSize, true);
  }
}

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Q: New the c++ object of POD(plain old data type) doing some test about the new and malloc, i expect the new
would need more assembly codes than malloc,but it is not
clang++ -S -mllvm --x86-asm-syntax=intel main.cpp
new
int main()
{
    char *a = new char[1024];
    delete []a;

    return 0;
}

malloc
#include <cstdlib> // pulls in declaration of malloc, free

int main()
{
    char *a = (char*)malloc(1024);

    free(a);

    return 0;
}

ok, char is a POD,i guess i don't need to deal with the cost of constructor and destructor, but new do need to deal with exception(even I don't add -fno-exceptions, the result is the same), how could the assembly be same?
    .section    __TEXT,__text,regular,pure_instructions
    .globl  _main
    .align  4, 0x90
_main:                                  ## @main
    .cfi_startproc
## BB#0:                                ## %entry
    push    RBP
Ltmp2:
    .cfi_def_cfa_offset 16
Ltmp3:
    .cfi_offset rbp, -16
    mov RBP, RSP
Ltmp4:
    .cfi_def_cfa_register rbp
    xor EAX, EAX
    pop RBP
    ret
    .cfi_endproc

.subsections_via_symbols

Edit :
I change the codes again, and this time work, I have to say the compiler is so smart
new
#include <cstdio>

int main()
{
    char *a = new char[1024];

    for(int i = 0; i != 1024; ++i){
        printf("%c", a[i]);
    }

    delete []a;

    return 0;
}

malloc
#include <cstdio>
#include <cstdlib> // pulls in declaration of malloc, free

int main()
{
    char *a = (char*)malloc(1024);

    for(int i = 0; i != 1024; ++i){
        printf("%c", a[i]);
    }

    free(a);

    return 0;
}

clang++ -S -O3 -mllvm --x86-asm-syntax=intel -fno-exceptions main.cpp
assembly of c
.section    __TEXT,__text,regular,pure_instructions
    .globl  _main
    .align  4, 0x90
_main:                                  ## @main
    .cfi_startproc
## BB#0:                                ## %entry
    push    RBP
Ltmp3:
    .cfi_def_cfa_offset 16
Ltmp4:
    .cfi_offset rbp, -16
    mov RBP, RSP
Ltmp5:
    .cfi_def_cfa_register rbp
    push    R14
    push    RBX
Ltmp6:
    .cfi_offset rbx, -32
Ltmp7:
    .cfi_offset r14, -24
    mov EDI, 1024
    call    _malloc
    mov R14, RAX
    mov EBX, 1
    xor EDI, EDI
    jmp LBB0_1
    .align  4, 0x90
LBB0_2:                                 ## %for.body.for.body_crit_edge
                                        ##   in Loop: Header=BB0_1 Depth=1
    movsx   EDI, BYTE PTR [R14 + RBX]
    inc RBX
LBB0_1:                                 ## %for.body
                                        ## =>This Inner Loop Header: Depth=1
    call    _putchar
    cmp EBX, 1024
    jne LBB0_2
## BB#3:                                ## %for.end
    mov RDI, R14
    call    _free
    xor EAX, EAX
    pop RBX
    pop R14
    pop RBP
    ret
    .cfi_endproc

.subsections_via_symbols

assembly of c++
    .section    __TEXT,__text,regular,pure_instructions
    .globl  _main
    .align  4, 0x90
_main:                                  ## @main
    .cfi_startproc
## BB#0:                                ## %entry
    push    RBP
Ltmp3:
    .cfi_def_cfa_offset 16
Ltmp4:
    .cfi_offset rbp, -16
    mov RBP, RSP
Ltmp5:
    .cfi_def_cfa_register rbp
    push    R14
    push    RBX
Ltmp6:
    .cfi_offset rbx, -32
Ltmp7:
    .cfi_offset r14, -24
    mov EDI, 1024
    call    __Znam
    mov R14, RAX
    mov EBX, 1
    xor EDI, EDI
    jmp LBB0_1
    .align  4, 0x90
LBB0_2:                                 ## %for.body.for.body_crit_edge
                                        ##   in Loop: Header=BB0_1 Depth=1
    movsx   EDI, BYTE PTR [R14 + RBX]
    inc RBX
LBB0_1:                                 ## %for.body
                                        ## =>This Inner Loop Header: Depth=1
    call    _putchar
    cmp EBX, 1024
    jne LBB0_2
## BB#3:                                ## %for.end
    test    R14, R14
    je  LBB0_5
## BB#4:                                ## %delete.notnull
    mov RDI, R14
    call    __ZdaPv
LBB0_5:                                 ## %delete.end
    xor EAX, EAX
    pop RBX
    pop R14
    pop RBP
    ret
    .cfi_endproc

.subsections_via_symbols

c++ version are calling the assembly of new and delete, before delete the buffer.
assembly of c++ check the pointer is point to nullptr or not, if yes, don't delete
the buffer;else delete the buffer.

A: Your assembly code looks like it's not actually doing anything.  The compiler detected that you weren't doing anything important inside main and optimized out everything except "return 0".  You might try disabling optimizations or printing the value of the pointer a.

A: Given that you specified no-execptions on your command line, its not surprising that the code is the same.  Look at the difference in assembly between -fno-exceptions and exceptions enabled.

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Canty Bay is a small inlet and coastal hamlet on the northern coast of East Lothian, Scotland. It is  east of North Berwick and is opposite the Bass Rock and Tantallon Castle. Other settlements nearby include Auldhame, Scoughall, Seacliff, and the Peffer Sands. Canty Bay means "bay of the little head" from the Gaelic , diminutive of .

The Glen Golf Club is close to its western side, and to the east there are high coastal cliffs. There are two beaches separated by a rocky headland. The western beach is uninhabited and accessible by two paths that descend the grass-covered cliffs from the eastern end of the Glen golf course. The eastern beach is by the hamlet.

This former fishing hamlet has been immortalised by William McGonagall in his poem Beautiful North Berwick and its surroundings. The Canty Bay Inn offered hospitality to the tourists who came to see the Bass Rock. The tenant of the Rock was usually also the innkeeper.

The William Edgar Evans Charitable Trust maintains a house and two cottages for use by Scout and Guide troops.

Dolphins can be seen at Canty Bay and from the Scottish Seabird Centre.

See also
List of places in East Lothian

References

External links

SCRAN image of Canty Bay, North Berwick
CANMORE/RCAHMS record of Canty Bay House, Archaeological Landscape
CANMORE/RCAHMS record of Castleton Farm, Canty Bay Road
RCAHMS record of North Berwick, Canty Bay House
Scottish Seabird Centre: sightings of dolphins and whales
Evans Trust
Scapetrust: Map 1: North Berwick to Canty Bay

Villages in East Lothian
Ports and harbours of Scotland
Hamlets in Scotland
North Berwick


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Why Investors Should Pay Attention to TRON (TRX)
January 4, 2018 Alex Moskov Altcoins, Cryptocurrencies, Opinion
TRON burst onto the cryptocurrency scene with an ICO in August 2017, and started trading in late September 2017.
We're hardly into the new year, and TRON is starting to make some serious waves in the market.
While I don't like to make price gains a focal point of my articles, it's worth noting that TRON jumped from $0.033 to $0.12 in the past few days.
TRON focuses on building a platform that allows digital content creators to cut out third-party intermediaries like the Apple Store and Google Play. This will ultimately help content creators get paid directly from their users.
In the absence of a crystal ball, we can look at some of the exciting components of the TRON project.
Justin Sun and Team
The CEO and Founder of TRON is Justin Sun, who is often referred to as "the next Jack Ma", the founder of Chinese eCommerce empire Alibaba. His accolades are nothing short of impressive at the age of 27. The University of Pennsylvania graduate is also:
2015 Forbes China 30 under 30
2017 Forbes Asia 30 under 30
founder of Peiwo APP (China's Snapchat)
an attendee of Hupan University founded by Jack Ma
a former chief representative of Ripple China.
The TRON team also counts Lucien Chen, a big data expert from Tencent and Alibaba. Chen recently announced he's bringing a chunk of the Alibaba tech team including some top developers to work at TRON. What makes this interesting is that this most likely isn't a poaching situation. Why would Alibaba allow its talent to flood to a promising blockchain project? This could be the underworkings of a future integration with the Alibaba platform in the future, which is pure rumor mill but would be a huge win for TRON (and for investors).
One of TRON's early investors is Feng Li, who has a fairly stacked resume in the cryptocurrency industry. He provided the seed capital for Coinbase, which is absolutely raking in revenue with the flood of new users. Li also serves on Ripple's board of directors, which has a market cap of about $132 billion at the time of writing.
One of their early investors is Feng Li, who also provided the seed capital for Coinbase… Li also serves on Ripple's board of directors.
A Long-Term View
The TRON project sets its gaze for the long-term, with a series of phases starting with Exodus in 2017 leading to Eternity in 2023.
The short-term spike in price might seem like a sudden erratic bull run, but the project seems to have more than enough steam to carry it for the next few years regardless of token price.
I highly recommend learning more about TRON before making investments. I believe the above criteria and the fact that it's currently the only token under $1.00 in the top 20 market cap coins makes it an attractive target for many investors.
As always, do your own research, gain/lose money on your own terms.
Featured image courtesy of Shutterstock.
Tags:tron/usd trx
Author: Alex Moskov
Website: http://www.alexmoskov.me
Alex Moskov is a writer and entrepreneur with a passion for building and creating awesome things. Alex has experience in music tech startups, digital marketing, and cryptocurrency investing.
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Lieutenant General Apoorva Kumar Sengupta  (3 August 1938 – 14 September 2013) was an Indian army officer and cricketer who played in one Test in 1959.

Cricket career
Sengupta's Test appearance came in the middle of a major controversy in Indian cricket. Ghulam Ahmed announced his retirement a few days before the Madras Test against the West Indies in 1958-59, and Vijay Manjrekar dropped out due to an injury. This led to a confusing situation where Jasu Patel, A. G. Kripal Singh, Manohar Hardikar and Sengupta were all considered. The captain Polly Umrigar wanted Hardikar but when the President of the BCCI insisted that he pick Patel, Umrigar resigned the night before the match. In the end, Sengupta and Kripal Singh played. Sengupta was dismissed for 1 and 8 by Wes Hall and Roy Gilchrist.

Sengupta was a 'very good allrounder, right hand opening batsman, leg-break and googly bowler and slip field'. He had made his first-class debut earlier in that season for Services against the West Indian touring team, scoring 32 and 100 not out. Two months later he took 6 for 32 against Delhi on his first appearance in the Ranji Trophy. These two performances had led to his selection for the Test match. He continued to play first-class cricket for ten years. His only other hundred was 146 not out scored against Bombay in the 1959-60 Ranji Trophy semi-final.

Military career
Sengupta served as an officer in the Indian army and was awarded PVSM and AVSM. He rose to the rank of Lieutenant General (3 star). He was also selected to serve as the defense attache for USA and Canada, based in Washington DC.

After retiring from the Indian army, he lived with his wife Meena Sengupta in New Delhi. They had two children, Amitabh and Surojit Sengupta. Sengupta died in the R&R hospital in New Delhi on 14 September 2013.

References

External links
 Cricinfo profile
 CricketArchive profile
 "Apoorva Sengupta: A baffling Test career"

Sengupta, AK
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Sengupta, AK
Sengupta, AK
Services cricketers
North Zone cricketers
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Cricketers from Lucknow


the private one would go as well, alongside Commercial Crew. I wonder how Bigelow would launch his orbital hotels then..
I concur with your assessment of Congress.
Sorry, but aside from the fact that you can't know how events would have played out 'instead,' the Earth-centered Universe dogma (which makes sense to human senses alone) goes back to Aristotle and Ptolemy. Later beliefs didn't pull it out of thin air.
Philolaus and Aristarchus thought otherwise on the matter, but what can you do?
And 'the 'space program' (whatever that phrase really means) has been drifting to some degree, ever since the end of Apollo, back when 'tea party' was yet another unchangeable historical event, and did not carry the baggage the phrase does today. It's about if and how much much public money to spend on this, and exactly how, in support of what policy. The names and faces today don't alter that basic facts.
We've transitioned from a country that put human footprints on the moon to a nation whose major governmental endeavor cannot build a website. Sad.
That is so sad and so true.
Now if only the Gov't had gone after the whole $23 billion dollars Bear Stern/J.P. Morgan had 'set aside' to pay legal penalties steaming from their illegal manipulation of the real estate market? Instead the penalty/fine levied is closer to $13 billion. This represents a MINOR fraction of the TRILLIONS of dollars in Bear Stern's coffers. It has not been revealed how much of those holdings were 'earned' by fraudulent practices… begs the question… How many other investment firms have illegally absconded billions of dollars and not paid taxes on their profits? i.e. What could NASA do with some of that money?
Bear Sterns, however despicable, does not have trillions in their coffers. Also, investment firms do pay hefty taxes, albeit most often at capital gains rates. Science folks need to be numerate and objective.
Also, it's time space/science advocates realized that a dollar saved will NOT be spent on space/science. There are too many advocacy groups that represent re-election votes for transfer payments way further up the political food chain. Wishing it were not so is hoping for flowers & unicorns.
Now if only we could get Wall Street investment firms and banks to 'pony up' some tax money for the trillions of dollars they absconded with… Bear Sterns/JP Morgan's recent fine of $13 billion is only one example. I note that the 'deal' made makes only a fraction of that fine taxable… but would pay for how many ISS resupply missions? or commercial space travel investments?
Simple solution, axe SLS and properly fund the rest of NASA, especially comercial crew and making rockets re-usable. Properly funding commercial crew will reduce the cost of ISS support and will reduce overall cost as Comercial Crew costs are less than that being spent on Russian flights. Making rockets re-usable will reduce the cost of access to space making all space missions cheaper.
A win for everyone except some members of congress will miss out on campaign contributions so it probably will not happen.
The SLS is soaking up too much of NASA's budget in a similar that many astronomy projects have been thrown under the bus to keep the James Webb Space Telescope project alive.
The big fear for Human Space Flight (HSF) fans is that the ISS might have to be splashed shortly after 2020 to keep up the flow of $$$ to the SLS program and even then, it might not be enough to bring the SLS into regular, frequent use in the face of declining budgets.
If NASA's congressional masters wished vacate long term HSF once and for all, then they need only stick to the current path.
access to space making all space missions cheaper.
That wouldn't sell well in Florida, and Florida is a swing state.
While holding no grudge against Russia, I think it's a shame how much the US must depend on Russia to keep the ISS going. I concur with the comment that if NASA funding goes, the private business funding will vanish or at least drop off. I also concur with the comment that I had expected much more of our space program by now. I do find our efforts too costly _ even given varied cost reductions, surely we can don better than we have done so far. When I was a young sci-fi fan, wha I liked best wasn't so much the "adventure" as the extrapolation of ideas and practices to see what possible consequences they might have. Humankind needs space-oriented endeavors. To do otherwise would be like living on an island under an opaque dome while the rest of everything goes on without us. Space doesn't need us, but we need space.
The US manned program hasn't gone beyond LEO in 41 years, despite several programs over the years designed to do so that inevitably got delayed and cancelled. I don't see it taking us to an asteroid, Mars, or even the Moon anytime within the next 20 years, if ever. So I'd be okay with its cancellation, if it meant another $2-3 billion/year for robotic exploration missions and space telescopes.
Which it wouldn't, of course. More likely is that ending manned spaceflight programs in NASA would start the death spiral of NASA as its budget drastically shrinks and its political weight in the budget-making process diminishes. If you want to see how bad that can get, look at how hard it is to get any funding for particle physics or deep sea exploration from the federal government. "Pure science" doesn't get you a lot of ground in the US.
I've been meeting a lot with people at NASA and for the most part I'm disappointed in the quality of their staff. Not all, but too many are disappointing. They seem like people with no vision for the future and much less engineering smarts than you would expect. It's a good thing they have contractors because the govvies are not impressive.


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The gift of music
By RDU Editorial In September 2021 (642)Posted September 17, 2021
The Rotaract Club of Canberra, ACT, has been providing headsets to aged care facilities in Canberra to increase access to music for those living with dementia. The program, Music for Dementia, provides the training and infrastructure to the facilities, and as a result the quality of life of participants has improved drastically.
Each person is given a personalised headset, with a playlist loaded with songs chosen by their family. The aim is for the songs to stimulate memory, calm the mind, and spark conversation.
The 20 club members created instruction videos and handouts to explain the project.
Club Treasurer Linnea Eriksson is an acoustic engineer.
"We want to improve people's quality of life," she explained. "With the feedback we've already received regarding the joy and serenity it has brought we can't wait to carry the work forward as a club."
The aged care facility staff have also reported the profound impact the project has had. Recipients of the headsets supplied through Music for Dementia were visibly calmer after using them. Families have also observed a positive change in the demeanour of their family member.
Diane Du Toit's mother, Maureen Du Toit (pictured), is a resident at Goodwin Aged Care Canberra and has had an amazing connection to the activity. Maureen was also a Rotary member back home in South Africa.
"I chose some of her favourite songs and as soon as Mum put the headphones on, she closed her eyes and was swept away by the music," Diane said. "It brought tears to my eyes to see my mum excited, smiling, moving her arms in time with the music and coming alive."
The project has also been important for club members who have been personally impacted by family members or loved ones with dementia. The project was an opportunity for club members to engage in a project and stay connected with Rotaract at a time when COVID-19 was having a significant impact on their lives.
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lncRNA GMDS‑AS1 upregulates IL‑6, TNF‑α and IL‑1β, and induces apoptosis in human monocytic THP‑1 cells via miR‑96‑5p/caspase 2 signaling
Lei Jiang
Jinghui Li
Affiliations: Department of Emergency, The First Affiliated Hospital of Naval Medical University, Shanghai 200433, P.R. China, Intensive Care Unit, Kunming Medical University Affiliated Yan'an Hospital, Kunming, Yunnan 650051, P.R. China
Published online on: January 3, 2022 https://doi.org/10.3892/mmr.2022.12583
Copyright: © Jiang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License.
Long non‑coding RNA (lncRNA) is considered a crucial modulator of the initiation and progression of several diseases. However, the roles of lncRNA in sepsis have yet to be fully elucidated. Thus, the aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of the lncRNA GDP‑mannose 4,6‑dehydratase antisense 1 (GMDS‑AS1) and its target in order to understand its role in the pathogenesis of sepsis. An in vitro sepsis model was established by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) induction. Reverse transcription‑quantitative PCR analysis was applied to detect the expression of inflammatory cytokines and the levels of GMDS‑AS1, microRNA (miR)‑96‑5p and caspase‑2 (CASP2). Flow cytometry was used to quantify the rate of apoptosis. In addition, the interaction between miR‑96‑5p and CASP2 was verified using a luciferase reporter assay. Western blot analysis was performed to assess the protein levels of CASP2 following alterations in GMDS‑AS1 and miR‑96‑5p expression using transfection. The levels of interleukin (IL)‑6, tumor necrosis factor‑α and IL‑1β were increased by LPS treatment in THP‑1 cells, whereas miR‑96‑5p expression was downregulated. miR‑96‑5p overexpression inhibited LPS‑induced inflammatory responses and apoptosis. In addition, GMDS‑AS1 expression increased, and upregulation of GMDS‑AS1 inhibited, the expression of miR‑96‑5p in the in vitro sepsis model. Moreover, CASP2 was confirmed to be a direct target of miR‑96‑5p. Therefore, the lncRNA GMDS‑AS1 regulated inflammatory responses and apoptosis by modulating CASP2 and sponging miR‑96‑5p in LPS‑induced THP‑1 cells. In summary, the findings of the present study demonstrated that lncRNA GMDS‑AS1 could promote the development of sepsis by targeting miR‑96‑5p/CASP2, indicating that the GMDS‑AS1/miR‑96‑5p/CASP2 axis may be a new therapeutic target and potential research direction for sepsis therapy.


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According to the Home Grown Cereals Authority (HGCA) substantially higher demand for oats in animal feed, plus forecast record usage by the UK oat milling industry is predicted to absorb much of the largest UK oat crop seen for 40 years (2013 crop). However, carry-over stocks are still expected to reach a new record for modern times.
At 515,000 tonnes (t) (5% higher than last season), Human and Industrial (H&I) usage of oats is forecast to reach another new record this season. Between July 2013 and March 2014, UK oat millers used 384,000t – 6% higher than during the same period last season.
For 2013/14, Defra (Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) forecasts that 91% of oats used by the oat milling industry will be home-grown, up from 76% in 2012/13, reflecting the much larger UK oat crop and improved quality. This is still below the proportion of home-grown oats used in 2009/10 and 2010/11 (96% and 97% respectively), reflecting larger than expected import levels at the start of the season.
In addition, usage of oats for animal feed is also expected to be markedly higher this season. Between July 2013 and March 2014, animal feed compounders in Great Britain (excluding Integrated Poultry Units) had used a total of 90.5,000t of oats in retail feed production. This total is less than 0.3,000t below the previous record set in 2010/11, with three months of this season's data still to be published.
Greater availability, combined with lower open market prices for oats and a historically small wheat crop, has increased the attractiveness of using oats in animal feed, compared with previous seasons. A total of 378,000t of oats are forecast to be used for animal feed in 2013/14 (Defra), compared with 198,000t last season. Based on the levels of oats used in compound feed production until end-March, this suggests that a much greater volume of oats is also being fed to animals on-farm.


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The experience of our operatives derive from backgrounds of elite units within the British Armed Forces (Including SAS, Parachute Regiment, Royal Military Police & Royal Marines) French Foreign Legion Civilian police and security services, this experience combined with commercial security knowledge, understanding and extensive practice has enabled us to focus and adapt to any given situation and to provide a solution quickly and effectively to security issues across the spectrum.
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by Dave Trumbore January 14, 2019
Adam Shankman's rom-com arrives in theaters on February 8th.
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The family comedy Blended sees recently divorced single mom Lauren (Drew Barrymore) on a disastrous blind date with widowed single father Jim (Adam Sandler). When they each sign up separately for an adventurous family vacation at a luxurious African safari …
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The ensemble comedy Think Like a Man, inspired by Steve Harvey's best-selling book Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, was a huge hit, naturally leading to a sequel that will be bringing all of the couples back for …
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A look at the exterior features of this ancient church building is just as important as the interior. The churchyard at the front of the church (south side) contains the older graves. But don't just look at the building, admire the view north over to Winter Hill and also the Clough to the west.


We use the alpine lichen Usnea barbata to extract usnic acid. This completely plant-derived active demonstrates multiple actions: antibacterial, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, protectant and wound healing. It helps to regulate excessive sebum production and maintain the epidermis' natural pH.
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White Shaka: Mr. Obama Goes to Africa – What Will We Find?
Mr. Obama Goes to Africa – What Will We Find?
The US public is about to get a wake up call when Mr. Obama shows up in West Africa in July. They figure this is probably no more that a diversion from our economic troubles at home – so now they 're going to see huts, misery and warfare. Should make us feel better right?
While we were looking the other way China has moved in the African vacuum left behind after the Cold War collapsed. They will find that most new mining development, banking and oil has been bankrolled by China. Many of these contracts give China both preferred pricing on new commodities but actually restrict sales to competitors – like us.
We will wake up to find who is really underwriting the conflict in Darfur and then we will be startled to find what has happened in Africas, largest and once most war-torn country: The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The Chinese are planning to build a dam so big that it will light up Europe. Imagine a Europe that buys its power from a $60bn dam in the jungle!
We are also going to find that Africa has developed a new personal trading platform that totally change the way governments function on the continent – cell phones. Outside of commodities, cell communications is bar far, the fastest growing business in Africa. Cell towers have leap-frogged wired infrastructure with the result that Africans can talk to each other – they even trade cell minutes as a form of currency.
Once you add secure accounts and smart phones, you know have a way to plug individual Africans into the World Market. At first that may not seem like a big deal but let's imagine that western charities stop giving money to organizations that have a habit of grabbing huge chunks off the top – instead they open personal accounts by chief, village, family and person and hand out resources at the personal level. The value is held outside the country so the government or local thug can't steal it – suddenly, you have a new Africa. You have mosquitoes in your village – buy some nets on our eBay Africa store we'll ship 'em to you. Need some water purification straws with that? No problem – and by the way, if you can get our cassava to market by Monday you'll get twice the normal rate.
China won't be offering these services anytime soon – but we will – it is part of the DNA of the Internet culture. And Africa is expecting it, they want it….from us. China, after all, is not exactly a friendly presence: after they have paid off the local powers, they tend to move in as a hermetic army seizing the key jobs and thought they will learn the lingo they are generally perceived as aliens. They can also be brutal. We, on the other hand, are perceived as returning brothers and sisters. The racial guilt trip built into the US conversation, has not only been put aside thanks to Mr. Obama's presidency, but it was never a big part of the personal conversation in Africa, anyway. The only conversation that matters is opportunity and personal growth – they are ready to get a piece of the American Dream, African style.
In aggregate you have these two converging possibilities – a continent with a wealth of energy (oil and natural gas being discovered almost daily up and down the West coast), natural commodities whose value is increasing and the possibility of getting wealth into the hands of individuals as opposed to the former kleptocracies.
Needless to say, the carping about "let's focus on America" will continue. How silly, the one continent that needs to buy just about everything we stand for – from proudcts to technology to ideology, and could actually pay for it, thanks to their natural wealth, has the power to transform our economy – just as Europe did in the 50's. If we just get over our history and our self-absorption our next great wealth machine lies over the Atlantic – a short hop from our new trading partner.


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Introduction to the Lauds Antiphons for St. Ursula
Hildegard composed an elaborate series of eight antiphons for use in an expanded edition of the office of Lauds for the feast of St. Ursula and the 11,000 virgin-martyrs of Cologne. This is the largest single office that she composed and indicates the special value that she placed on developing the feast of St. Ursula into an important celebration affirming the life and mission of the religious women (virgins) of her monastery.
Reconstructed Order for the Office
The Table of Contents for our edition of Hildegard's Symphonia follows the ordering found in the manuscripts and given in the modern editions. However, for reading or performance order, we highly recommend the reconstruction proposed by musicologist William Flynn, which makes the most sense out of the difficulties of the manuscript presentation. The following table summarizes this suggested order of service according to the likely usage of Hildegard's time and place, showing which psalm or scriptural canticle would have been paired with each antiphon; as well as the corresponding order in each of the two manuscripts and in Barbara Newman's edition of the Symphonia:
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1. Studium divinitatis Ps 92(93) 1 (167v) 1 (471vb) 1
2. Unde quocumque Ps 99(100) (secular cursus) or Ps 117(118) (monastic cursus) 2 (167v) 2 (472ra) 2
3. De patria etiam earum Ps 62(63) 3 (168r) 3 (472ra) 3
4. Deus enim in prima muliere presignavit Benedicite (Dn 3:57-88, 56) 4 (168r) 4 (472ra) 4
5. Aer enim volat Ps 148 5 (168r) 5 (472ra) 5
6. Deus enim rorem in illas misit Ps 149 7 (168r) 7 (472rb) 7
7. Sed diabolus Ps 150 8 (168r-v) 8 (472rb) 8
8. Et ideo puelle iste Gospel: Benedictus
(Lk 1:68–79) 6 (168r) 6 (472ra) 6
A typical Lauds office would normally only have five antiphons for the psalmody (which includes the canticle Benedicite taken from the expanded Septuagint / Vulgate text of the book of Daniel), plus an antiphon for the Benedictus, the Canticle of Zechariah from the Gospel of Luke. But Hildegard has composed a tightly woven series of eight antiphons that tell a coherent narrative, indicating that they should all go together in a single office. Flynn suggests that Hildegard invoked an alternative psalmody known to have been used sometimes in twelfth-century monastic communities, which expands the final psalm unit of Lauds (a combined singing of Pss 148-150) into its three individual psalms, each with its own antiphon. Furthermore, he believes it likely that, because the community of Augustinian nuns in Cologne dedicated specifically to the cult of St. Ursula followed what is known as a secular rather than monastic usage (cursus) for the divine office, Hildegard may have borrowed some slight modifications from the secular cursus in determining the psalms to be sung for festal Lauds.
The manuscript ordering for the antiphons may further be designed to allow for easy navigation when recycling a subset of them for Second Vespers, sung at the end of the day that would open with the Lauds office. A common monastic practice for Second Vespers of major feasts was to reuse the first, second, third, and fifth antiphons from Lauds. The placement of the Gospel antiphon after the fifth antiphon, rather than at the end of the series, helps demarcate this subset. Finally, this reconstruction allows the triumph of the Gospel antiphon, Et ideo puelle iste, to have the last word, rather than the invidiousness of Sed diabolus. In this way, the narrative produced by the antiphon series coheres with Hildegard's overall ideas about the virginal mission shared between St. Ursula's ancient band and her own monastery.
Flynn, William. "Reading Hildegard of Bingen's Antiphons for the 11,000 Virgin-Martyrs of Cologne: Rhetorical ductus and Liturgical Rubrics." Nottingham Medieval Studies 56 (2012), pp. 174-89.
Hildegard of Bingen, Symphonia, ed. Barbara Newman (Cornell Univ. Press, 1988 / 1998), pp. 236 and 309-11.
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With more than five million homes sold annually in the United States, purchasing a home remains at the center of the American dream. A large percentage of these buyers will be making this major purchase for the first time, which can be an extremely stressful and overwhelming experience. Even for an experienced homebuyer, purchasing a home can be a daunting undertaking, as they are well aware of the stack of paperwork that must be completed in order to get the keys to their new home. One of the lesser-known aspects of purchasing a home is the role that title insurance plays within the closing process. Title insurance is a very important investment, so we're sharing some information to help homebuyers better understand its role in the home buying process.
Title insurance protects real estate owners and lenders from property loss or damage they could experience from liens or defects in the property's title. Unlike other insurance options that require monthly premiums, title insurance is a one-time fee paid by the buyer at the time of closing. Title insurance rates differ based on the value and location of the home being purchased. While title insurance is not mandatory, it is a strong investment.
Who is Title Insurance For?
Both homebuyers and lenders need title insurance in order to be insured against various possible title defects on a property. Prior to closing, the insurance company will run a title search on a property. This typically takes between two and three business days and statistics show that more than 33 percent of title searches result in a problem that must be resolved before closing. Liens or defects on the title can include tax liens, abstracts of judgment, child support liens or bankruptcies. A lien means another company or person has the right to keep possession of your property until your debt is repaid. Without title insurance, the new buyer would be responsible for clearing any defects that are on the property.
What Could Happen If You Don't Get Title Insurance?
Here's how things could go wrong. At the most extreme, the seller may knowingly try to sell you a home he or she doesn't own. There have been instances of renters posing as sellers. However, typical title issues are less worthy of a crime show, but more complicated. For example, the seller might have co-purchased the house ten years ago with a brother he hasn't talked to since and is unaware that he now needs his brother's signature to sell. Or a problem might be lurking in the more distant past. For example, the seller might have bought the place from a single woman, not realizing that her ex-husband still co-owned the property and hadn't signed off on the sale as required. Or the seller might have inherited the house under the terms of a will that -- oops -- turns out to have been out-of-date and a more recent will leaves the house to someone else.
Not all title problems involve the whole house. For example, liens may have been filed against the house -- that is, people or agencies may have, within the public records, legally claimed the right to be paid from the proceeds of the property's sale, in order to settle the owner's debt to them. Typical debts include taxes, child support, and contractor's fees. These liens stick to the house like glue, until the house is sold or foreclosed on.
In any of these situations, title insurance will step in to help.
One important note on co-op housing: If you're buying a co-op, where you won't actually own real estate (just shares in a corporation), no title insurance is needed.
A common misconception about title insurance is the difference between closing on a home and funding a home. While they happen almost simultaneously, closing and funding are different actions and both must occur before the keys to the house are released to the buyer and a check is issued to the seller.
At closing, the seller will sign over the deed to the buyer. The buyer will sign the note, deed of trust, loan application and truth in lending documents.
During funding, the lender will authorize the release of all monies to the seller and all third parties once the funding documents are approved. The HUD sheet, an itemized form listing all service fees that must be paid out, must balance with the money coming in before any funds can be released. For example, the money coming in from the lender and your down payment must match the money that needs to be paid out to the seller, the REALTORS®, the title insurance company and other involved parties. If there is a discrepancy and the HUD doesn't balance perfectly, funding cannot be released until the issue has been resolved.
In order for the transaction to be 100 percent complete, meaning the homebuyer will receive the keys and the seller will receive the money from their home sale, both parties must complete and sign all of the closing documents, these documents must be verified and approved by the title and lending companies, and funding has to be cleared and sent.
It is important to remember that it takes two parties to complete a home sale and in most cases, the two parties sign the closing documents at different times. While title insurance companies work with both parties to make sure the closing process is as quick and smooth as possible, it is not uncommon for delays to occur and the transaction to take place over a few hours.
Many homebuyers have misconceptions about the earnest money deposit required when purchasing a home. The earnest money deposit is a good faith gesture from the buyer that tells the seller you are committed to purchasing the home. This deposit is separate from the down payment, but is usually applied to the down payment or to closing costs. The buyer will provide this check to the title company before signing the final closing documents and the check will be cashed into an escrow account on that day.
Many people overestimate how long it will take to sign all of the necessary documents to complete the closing process. Signing all closing documents takes, on average, 60 minutes for the buyer and 30 minutes for the seller. It is not necessary to clear your entire day, but make sure you give yourself enough time in case any unforeseen delays occur.
If you are married, make sure that your spouse is present to sign the documents, as both parties are required to be in attendance to sign off on the paperwork at closing. In Texas, even if only one person's name is on the title, both spouses must sign off on the transaction as spouses have homestead rights, regardless if his or her name is on the title.
Make sure you bring a valid government-issued ID including a driver's license, passport or voter ID card to prove your identity at the time of closing.
It is important to understand the basics of title insurance and the role it plays when purchasing a home so you can make an informed decision and have a successful transaction when buying or selling a home.


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Do you remember when I discussed the crushing disappointment that is Google AdSense in [Podcast 64](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/podcast-64/)? If Stack Overflow, a site that does [a million pageviews a day](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/09/one-million-pageviews/), can't make enough from AdSense to pay even one person half time -- and let me tell you, that's being overly generous based on the actual income it generated -- how does _anyone_ make a decent living with AdSense? Seriously, how? Exclusively talking about Mesothomelia and Asbestos, or what?

As a result, we dropped AdSense like a hot (or, rather, a particularly cold) potato. Instead, we turned to our pal Alex of [The Daily WTF](http://thedailywtf.com), and hooked into his curated ad network for software developers. We are firm believers in **responsible** (read: no flash, no animation) and **restrained** (read: limited to 3 ad slots, reduced ads for >200 rep) advertising. This has worked quite well for us so far. How well? On the order of **fifty to a hundred times better than AdSense!** I am not exaggerating. Those are actual numbers.

Even though Alex does a great job, we always have a lot of left over unsold ad space. And as the site has grown over the last 6 months, this gap has widened. So then the question becomes -- if AdSense doesn't work for us (and boy, does it _ever_ not work for us) -- then what can you do with that **remnant ad space**? I hate the word monetization with a passion, but surely something useful could be done here?

That's when [Portman Wills](http://portmanwills.com/) approached us. He's not only an old school 4 digit [Stack Overflow user](http://stackoverflow.com/users/1690/portman) and fellow programmer -- he also has extensive experience in his previous gigs with advertising code.

Portman is currently busy building cool stuff like [shuffletime](http://shuffletime.com/c/codinghorror) (not to mention his hilarious parody sites [woofer](http://woofertime.com/) and [feeling unlucky](http://unluckytime.com/)). But he was enthused about the opportunity to help out Stack Overflow -- and maybe, just maybe, generate some ads that were actually (gasp!) _useful and relevant_ to his fellow programmers at the same time.

Thus, Portman generously offered to build a custom ad-serving site for us, which we gladly hosted at rads.stackoverflow.com.

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The spider was fed the top 5000 tags on Stack Overflow. For each tag, it preformed a keyword search on the "Computers & Internet" node, returning the top 10 books with five-star reviews, sorted by number of reviews.

You can read the full skinny in [Portman's summary](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/summary-of-amazon-remnant-ad-experiment/). We had **high hopes of building something that connected great programmers with quality programming books on Amazon.** The ads looked nice, too:

Excellent plan, right? Smart. Clever, even!

Well, it was a **complete and utter failure**.

Despite our purported cleverness, it didn't work. Not even a _little_. The Amazon ad experiment was a total failure by any metric I can think of. Clicks, revenue, goodwill, newton-pounds, cuils, you name it. It was literally a waste of everyone's time. Even flipping burgers would have paid more.

But this failure was not for lack of trying. If a guy as skilled as Portman -- who not only has a deep background in custom advertising, but is also a programmer capable of writing a solution tailored to our specific audience -- can't make this work, **I had to regretfully conclude that _nobody could make it work_**. It's just not possible.

So we scrapped the whole thing, and [we're going in a different direction](http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23899/proposal-free-vote-based-advertising-for-open-source-projects).  More news on that soon.

But in the meantime, since we had our fancy-shmancy Amazon Affiliates account set up, we might as well put it to good use. Even way back in the original Stack Overflow beta, people were proposing that we [convert any Amazon book links to Stack Overflow amazon affiliate book links](http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10948/would-it-be-a-problem-if-all-amazon-links-were-converted-to-affiliate-links). I was hesitant to do this at the time, but given our failure, I was licking my wounds. I was willing to give it a try. Particularly since the community seemed totally OK with the concept.

So, onward to plan B: we now [auto-insert Stack Overflow affiliate info into any amazon book links](http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26964/auto-inserting-stack-overflow-affiliate-into-all-amazon-book-links) posted on Stack Overflow. Oh yeah, and here's the kicker. These silly little rewritten text links work **200%-300% better than our custom amazon book ads!**

Go figure.

All I can say is, advertising is hard, let's go shopping! And when it's not hard, [it's borderline scammy](http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/01/how-to-spam-facebook-like-a-pro-an-insiders-confession/), which is something we just don't do at Stack Overflow.

At any rate, I'm glad Portman is here to take the blamehelp. Apparently we can add advertising to the long, long list of things that we suck at. But we do plan to [suck less every year!](http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000530.html)


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Millikelvin measurements of the conductivity as a function of donor density and uniaxial stress in bulk samples of phosphorus-doped silicon establish that the transition from metal to insulator is continuous, but sharper than predicted by scaling theories of localization. The divergence of the dielectric susceptibility as the transition is approached from below also points out problems in current scaling theories. The temperature dependence of the conductivity and the magnetoresistance in the metal indicate the importance of Coulomb interactions in describing the behavior of disordered systems.
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Elin Hilderbrand looks back at the summer of 1969, YA author Lauren Kate writes an adult novel set in 1700s Venice, Lauren Willig visits mid-1800s Barbados, and more.
The mega-best-selling women's fiction queen goes historical with a book set in 1969, as the Levin family finds life turned tumultuously upside down. The children have always summered at their grandmother's house on Nantucket, but pregnant oldest sister Blair remains in Boston, while Tiger has been deployed to Vietnam. Thirteen-year-old Jessie is stuck alone with grandma, as middle sister Kirby gets caught involved in civil rights protests and travels to Martha's Vineyard with her best friend, Mary Jo Kopechne. With a 350,000-copy first printing.
No. 1 New York Times best-selling YA author Kate enters the adult arena with a story set in 1700s Venice featuring star-crossed lovers Violetta and Mino. She's an aspiring singer living at The Hospital of the Incurables, the city's famous music school and orphanage, he's a violinist at the school's boys' hall, and they meet one night on the rooftop. Their ambitions take them in different directions—she wants to perform with the ospedale's celebrated coro, while he wants to go out in the world and find his mother—but they remain forever linked.
Disgraced by her husband's divorce petition, village queen-bee Mrs. Braithwaite rushes to London to visit her only child, Betty, who started working there when World War II erupted. But Betty's landlord hasn't seen her for days, and Mrs. Braithwaite goes looking for her, worried that Betty is a causality of the Blitz and rethinking her whole life as she marches through the rubble. Following The Chilbury Ladies' Choir, a LibraryReads pick.
In June 1937, Elizabeth Bishop–not yet the exquisitely precise poet she would become—heads to France after graduating from Vassar and finds a world leaning toward war. There she becomes involved with a group that spirits Jewish children to convents, where they will be baptized and thus protected from the fate threatening their parents. Wieland, winner of the Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction, takes advantage of a gap in Bishop's otherwise detailed journals to imagine a few crucial weeks in her life. With a 75,000-copy first printing.
In 1854, Emily Dawson, the poor relative in a wealthy merchant family, unexpectedly inherits from her grandfather a sugar plantation in Barbados that no one knew he had. When she travels there with her cousin and his new wife, she finds the plantation in ruins after an island-wide revolt of the enslaved in 1816. Why did her grandfather hold onto this blackened pile of wood and stone? Why are the neighboring plantation owners so eager to own it? And are there really ghosts floating about? From a six-time New York Times best-selling author; with a 75,000-copy first printing.