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Astronomers discover the biggest thing in the Universe
Astronomers discover the bigge...
An image of the distribution of GRBs on the sky at a distance of 7 billion light years, centred on the newly discovered ring – the positions of the GRBs are marked by blue dots
L. Balazs
There's some pretty big stuff out there in the Universe, but how big is the biggest? According to a team of Hungarian-US scientists led by Prof Lajos Balazs, the largest regular formation in the Universe is a ring of nine galaxies 7 billion light years away and 5 billion light years wide. Though not visible from Earth, the newly discovered feature covers a third of our sky.
The ring was revealed by nine Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRB) originating from the nine galaxies. GRBs are the brightest, most energetic events in the cosmos, putting out as much energy in seconds as the Sun will in its entire lifetime. They're caused by supernovae or hypernovae – supermassive stars collapse into neutron stars or black holes in times ranging from milliseconds to a few hours. Aside from their spectacular deaths, they also help astronomers to measure the distance of other galaxies.
In this case, the observed GRB's indicate that the nine galaxies are positioned in a ring shaped like a shell. They also show that the galaxies are all of a very similar distance from Earth – according to Prof Balazs, there's only a 1 in 20,000 chance that the ring's arrangement is accidental.
If it was visible to us, the ring would cover 36 percent of the sky, making it 70 times bigger than a full moon.
The importance of the ring isn't just that it appears to be a record breaker – it raises questions about the architecture of the Universe. In particular, it casts doubts on the Cosmological Principle. First asserted by Sir Isaac Newton and developed based on observations of the cosmic microwave background radiation and the structure of the early universe in the past century, it states that at the largest scale, the Universe is uniform, so no matter where you are, it looks essentially the same.
According to the team, recent work indicates that the largest structures can't be more than 1.2 billion light years across. This is at odds with the new discovery, as the ring is about five times as big, implying a much more uneven cosmos.
The next step for the team is to see if the processes controlling galaxy formation and large scale structure could have produced the ring without violating the Cosmological Principle. If not, it could require rethinking how the Universe evolved.
"If we are right, this structure contradicts the current models of the universe," says Balazs. "It was a huge surprise to find something this big – and we still don't quite understand how it came to exist at all."
The team's results were published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Source: Royal Astronomical Society
SpaceAstronomyGalaxyAstrophysicsCosmology
PawPawSimmons August 17, 2015 03:38 AM
This so called "structure" may not be so much "a structure" as it is a "reflection" within a gravitational wave that is a lot like looking down the inside of a pipe, even looking down the inside of a giant wave on the breaking wave you might be surfing. If you look at the "animated photo" you'll notice a sort of corkscrew type of structure, that thing may very well be the same event being reflected again and again, coming at you in sets "sort of like a mirage happening over and over" on broken gravity fronts. I've seen this kind of thing on other star maps and photos of deep space time and again. I could be wrong but I don't think so.
Peter Clark August 17, 2015 06:23 AM
What does the Prof mean "1 in 20,000 chance that the ring's arrangement is accidental"? Did something or someone make it? Has he just proved the existence of God? In any case, how did they calculate that number? It looks way too low!
Nik August 17, 2015 07:46 AM
"according to Prof Balazs, there's only a 1 in 20,000 chance that the ring's arrangement is accidental." Does this mean that he considers that it was 'intelligently designed?'
piperTom August 17, 2015 10:57 AM
"Five billion light years wide" means about 20 billion cubic light years or more than 2 billion cubic LY for each of the nine galaxies. Sounds more like an empty patch of sky rather than a "structure". For contrast, consider a billion LY diameter sphere right here: It includes Milky Way and Andromeda. It is densely packed with only .08 billion cubic LY per galaxy. There is something very wrong with this story.
BlueTrombone August 17, 2015 01:02 PM
Shouldn't that be the 'known' universe?
Elind August 17, 2015 01:58 PM
Looks more like a Fibonacci spiral than a ring/circle. Of course that would be even more interesting if accurate; but really, what prevents us from saying this is simply coincidental and that there need be no actual physical linkage between them? After all, were we seeing them from a different angle there would be nothing remarkable.
Douglas Bennett Rogers August 17, 2015 02:25 PM
Distant objects in an expanding universe are magnified because the early universe was smaller. 5B years ago the universe was 40% smaller. Therefore objects at 5B light years should appear 1.6 x as large.
Don Duncan August 17, 2015 04:13 PM
Nothing in the 'verse is accidental, i.e., "cause and effect" is a universal law. 20,000-1?? When we say an event was accidental, that does not mean it had no cause. The statement is about our knowledge of the event, not the event. It is an epistemological statement, not metaphysical. B.T.: Everything we know is about, i.e., in reference to, the known universe. That must be, and it's why we don't need to state it. How can we make a statement about an "unknown" universe?
Kristianna Thomas August 17, 2015 07:40 PM
In 1859, almost 100 years ago, Charles Darwin came out with the Origins of a Species. In the realm of astronomy we have explored scientifically the nature of the universe. We are still groping with how the [this] universe evolved, and continues to evolve over the course of billions of years. We, have made a lot of assumptions about the nature and structure of the [this] universe, and time and time again have had to re-evaluate our preconceived notions. There is much of the universe we don't see, and much of the [this] universe we still don't understand. "According to the team, a structure can not be more than 1.2 billion light years across." The object is 5 x larger than what they assume is possible, and the universe is not symmetrical; the universe is asymmetrical in nature. What! The universe is not made by Kibbler Elves? Is the universe like that of a multi-tentacle octopus, with the galaxies nestled into the tentacles spread out as they cannibalize other galaxies in their regions of space; creating super galaxies as matter consolidates into fewer and fewer galaxies?
RelayerM31 August 17, 2015 08:02 PM
I'm looking forward to the (unfortunately named) James Webb telescope which will "rewrite the book" on astronomy. Astronomers will find that their new discoveries coincide perfectly with a book (the Bible) that needs no rewriting at all.
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The fellas keeping watch over Suzy. They don't love that she is not out with them.
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Suzy enjoying some munching in the pasture today. She needed to stretch her legs.
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P.S. – Sweet Suzy Q rocked out her vet wrap as we got her teal with stars. And when I say we, I mean me. I'll take the responsibility for this one. Cowboy is off the hook.
Suzy rocking the teal and star vet wrap. No one says a girl shouldn't look pretty.


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Q: How do I save a string value on Substrate's smart contract platform, ink?
*

*I initially tried the implementation as taught in this question.
(How can I save string value on Substrate)

*However, an error occurred in relation to "ink_abi" and the struct
could not be defined.

*Looking at the latest "ink! example"(), I tried to copy it because
the struct was defined, but the following command does not work.
(https://github.com/paritytech/ink/blob/master/examples/runtime-storage/lib.rs)

cargo +nightly generate-metadata

*How can I save the string data to the blockchain with "substrate
ink!"?

*I would like to see a sample source if available.

A: Use ink_prelude::string::String
#![cfg_attr(not(feature = "std"), no_std)]
use ink_lang as ink;

#[ink::contract]
mod foo {
    use ink_prelude::string::String;

    // ...
}

And don't forget to add ink_prelude to your [dependencies] section in your .toml
see:
https://paritytech.github.io/ink/ink_prelude/string/struct.String.html

A: In ink! you can directly use the String type.
Here is a simple implementation of an ink! contract doing this with tests (modified from the incrementer example:
#![cfg_attr(not(feature = "std"), no_std)]

use ink_lang as ink;

#[ink::contract(version = "0.1.0")]
mod basic_string {
    #[ink(storage)]
    struct BasicString {
        value: String,
    }

    impl BasicString {
        #[ink(constructor)]
        fn new(init_value: String) -> Self {
            Self { value: init_value }
        }

        #[ink(constructor)]
        fn default() -> Self {
            Self::new(Default::default())
        }

        #[ink(message)]
        fn set(&mut self, new: String) {
            self.value = new;
        }

        #[ink(message)]
        fn get(&self) -> String {
            self.value.clone()
        }
    }

    #[cfg(test)]
    mod tests {
        use super::*;

        #[test]
        fn default_works() {
            let contract = BasicString::default();
            assert_eq!(contract.get(), "");
        }

        #[test]
        fn it_works() {
            let mut contract = BasicString::new("Hello World!".into());
            assert_eq!(contract.get(), "Hello World!");
            contract.set("Goodbye!".into());
            assert_eq!(contract.get(), "Goodbye!");
        }
    }
}

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In the Carrefour neighborhood of Duékoué, I peered down a deep well at the abandoned headquarters of one of the warring militias. No bodies were visible but the smell was unmistakable. No one knows how many bodies lie inside. The grisly work of recovering and identifying the dead lies ahead.
Elsewhere, the extent of the bloodshed is already emerging. In two deadly incidents, the most recent on 28 March more than 300 people were killed. The Moroccan peacekeepers sent to the site of these massacres have so far counted 255 bodies, but more lie in dense bushes and other inaccessible places. A UN human rights team is also present at the scene, gathering evidence and trying to establish the chain of events.
The picture is not black and white. Information available to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights indicates that the first incident took place in the area controlled by forces loyal to the now captured Laurent Gbagbo. The victims were mostly members of the Dioula ethnic group, which has tended to support Gbagbo's rival, Alassane Ouattara, who is widely recognized as the winner of last year's elections and the legitimate president of the country. The second took place in an area under the control of forces loyal to Ouattara, and the victims were mostly Gueré, who tend to support Gbagbo. The dead were found in civilian clothes.
It is not known exactly how many people have died in Abidjan. The UN human rights team in Côte d'Ivoire puts the likely number at more than 400. Dead bodies have not been collected systematically, because of the persisting security risks. Hospitals have run out of many basic medical supplies and food is scarce, leaving many people hungry and afraid. UN peacekeepers used armoured personal carriers to evacuate diplomats and journalists caught in fighting in Cocody, the neighbourhood close to the Presidential residence where Laurent Gbabgo made his last stand. Local people had no such escape route.
President Ouattara has said he would do everything in his power to break the vicious cycle of ethnically-based violence.
"I will establish a truth and reconciliation commission and ensure accountability of everyone who committed crimes, no matter their political affiliation or ethnicity," he told me Thursday in Abidjan. "I want reconciliation. I will form a government in which all regions and ethnic groups will be represented." He has since repeated the pledge in public statements.
If the truth about crimes committed since the start of the conflict in September 2002 had been established earlier and perpetrators held to account, perhaps Côte d'Ivoire could have been spared the situation it faces.
An international commission of inquiry was established in 2004, but its report was never made public, nor taken up by the UN Security Council. Hopefully, that will not be the case this time. The Security Council has already requested Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to present it with the report of the independent investigation commissioned by the Human Rights Council, and to share it with other international organizations. The report is due by the middle of June, but how many people may have lost their lives by then? Will further retaliation be averted?
With President Ouattara assuming effective control of the reins of power following Monday's arrest of Mr. Gbagbo, there is renewed hope that the long-suffering people of Cote d'Ivoire will finally see peace. This is by no means assured. President Ouattara and other political leaders across the country need to embark, immediately, on the long and difficult but necessary road of accountability but, in doing so, they must avoid any form of retaliation.
Former President Gbabgo must be treated with dignity and, if charged, tried in accordance with international human rights standards. He should not be made a scapegoat: all individuals implicated, no matter their political affiliation, should equally face justice. Truth and justice are prerequisites for reconciliation and sustainable peace.
Cote d'Ivoire is a rich country with strong infrastructure, most of which remains intact. But it will need substantial help from the outside world, both in the form of immediate humanitarian relief and longer-term assistance to jump-start its economy. One hopes that it will not struggle to secure international attention and funding in the face of the upheavals in North Africa and the earthquakes in Japan.
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Australian Archbishop told teachers to send parents anti-gay marriage booklets
Naith Payton June 3, 2015
Archbishop Denis Hart asked that children at Catholic schools be given booklets opposing same-sex marriage.
The Archbishop of Melbourne wrote to Catholic primary and secondary schools to urge them to promote "the meaning of marriage". He included a 15-page document, that children have been taking home to their parents.
Headteachers were asked to give parents a letter from Australian bishops entitled "Don't Mess With Marriage".
He wrote: "You might also consider asking them to send it to their Members of Parliament with a covering letter."
Some headteachers have reportedly refused to pass the materials on.
Director of LGBT group Safe Schools Coalition, Roz Ward, said the material risked the well-being of LGBT Catholic students and urged headteachers not to hand out the material.
She told The Age: "At school it is particularly important that they can feel they can be themselves and valued for who they. In a situation where you feel that is not valued, everything else becomes more difficult.
"[It may be viewed as] a direct attack on their existence as gay Catholics."
A political commentator in Australia said the country should not follow the lead of the Republic Ireland, who recently voted to introduce same-sex marriage, because: "these are people who can't grow potatoes.
"They've got a mutant lawn weed as their national symbol and they can't verbalise the difference between tree and the number three."
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Super League blanks U-20s entry
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The national Under-20 team is one of ten teams that were blanked from participating in this year's T&T Super League (TTSL) competition.
The team which is coached by former national standout Russell Latapy failed to pay the registration fee of $45,000 as part of the entry requirement.
Keith Look Loy, the TTSL president said on Sunday that it was initially decided to have the team in the league as a guest team, but after its TTSL parent body, the T&T Football Association failed to pay the fee on two occasions, its members decided against having them in the league.
Look Loy said his members also found the team to be an unstable one after it was discovered that staff members had not been paid for six months.
Look Loy believes the league can be at risk of accepting such a team, fearing its members can decide to pull out if they continue to not be paid for their work.
The TTSL boss further explained that upon investigation, the TTSL also discovered that the team had not trained in a long time.
The under the 20 team is one of nine clubs that were refused the opportunity to play football in the TTSL this year, for either being non-compliant or failure to pay the required registration fee.
Guardian Media Sports also learnt that the country's Under-17 team was also blanked entry into the FLOW Youth Pro League because of a late request.
Yesterday, General Secretary of the TTFA Justin Latapy-George said they came to an agreement with the TTSL for the U-20s to play, but we just could not make the payment.
"That is all I am going to say on that" Latapy-George said. One of the more popular teams that were also blanked is Defence Force, which was deemed compliant, but it did not pay the required $45, 000 for entry.
The others are Siparia Spurs, Central 500, Youth Stars, Marabella Family Crisis, Real Maracas United, Harlem Strikers, WASA and Palo Seco.
At a meeting of the TTSL on Sunday, officials of the Army Coast-Guard Combination team pleaded for a third deadline to pay. Due to the omission of the 10 clubs, this year's TTSL season has been drawn down to 13 teams in a League One division only, compared to 24 teams in two divisions last year.
Look Loy said there is still a possibility that the composition of the tournament can be increased to 15 teams, after newcomers Erin FC paid half the fee Sunday and gave a promise that the SFA will pay the remaining amount, as part of their prize monies for last season.
The other team 1976 Phoenix assured it has already transferred monies to the account of the TTSL from its sponsors in the United States.
Look Loy said gave the Tobago team a deadline of yesterday to complete payment, while in the case of Erin FC, it will not accept the team into the league if all the funds are not received before the season starts.
According to Look Loy, they are changing the old culture of making deals and taking shortcuts, which has led to the death of the sport in the past. The TTSL's stance was taken on the basis of a number of solid principles, one of which was the urgent demand for the fixtures by Caribbean Airline to secure travel for the teams on Sunday.
Look Loy, a former coach at FC Santa Rosa said: "We are treating our League as a commercial enterprise and those who don't want to treat it as such will have to step aside. At some point in time, we have to get serious."
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Hi! I'm Carol Abernethy, a die hard quilter and handicraft-er of most disciplines. I've taught quilting for a few years and have quilted for many, many, more. So it is time to spread my wings a little bit. I will continue to teach as I have been but you will now find some courses on this site that I also offer.
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So stay tuned for updates and new courses.
This is the "Raspberry Kiss" block from Wooden Spoon Quilts' site that my guild friends challenged me to sew. I not only made them some but also created a whole bunch for myself. The finished pillow will be dressing up my sofa for all of February.
Why not make a small quilted item for Valentine's Day. You can make this block or do a strip pieced heart that is appliqued onto a background fabric.
If you want to learn how to create a strip pieced project give me a call or slip me an email. All you need is some scraps and background fabric to get started.


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Areva, Duke Energy to build biomass power plants
By Erin Voegele
Web exclusive posted Sept. 26, 2008 at 10:59 a.m. CST
Areva, a Bethesda, Md.-based energy products and services vendor, and Charlotte, N.C.-based Duke Energy announced the formation of a joint venture Sept. 24. Adage, the joint venture company, will be headquartered in Chadds Ford, Pa., and facilitate the development of biomass power plants in the United States.
Areva will design and build the plants. Duke Energy Generation Services, a commercial power business unit of Duke Energy, will manage the facilities' operations. Areva will also negotiate power purchase agreements and fuel contracts, as well as secure suitable sites for the plants.
The facilities will run on wood waste and are expected to generate an average of 50 megawatts each, which is enough electricity to power approximately 40,000 homes. According to Jarret Adams, a spokesman for Areva, the plants will burn waste wood materials to heat water that turns a turbine to create electricity. Areva has built more than 100 similar facilities around the world.
Duke Energy's spokesman Rick Rhodes said no plant locations have been named at this time, but Adage expects to have the first facility under construction by 2010.
"We're really excited about the prospects for this business," Adams said. "We believe that the U.S. biomass sector really presents a tremendous opportunity for us."
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McKee Named AHL Player of the Week
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League announced today that Portland Pirates goaltender David McKee has been named the CCM Vector/AHL Player of the Week for the period ending April 1, 2007.
McKee stopped 78 of 81 shots over three victories to help keep the Pirates' playoff hopes alive in the Atlantic Division.
On Wednesday night, McKee made the second start of his American Hockey League career and stopped 17 shots to lead Portland to a 3-0 win at division-leading Manchester. On Friday, McKee came back with 36 saves in the Pirates' 3-1 win in Lowell, and on Sunday he turned aside 25 shots as Portland defeated Springfield, 3-2. For the week, McKee was 3-0-0 with a 1.00 goals-against average and a .963 save percentage.
In recognition of his achievement, McKee will be presented with an etched crystal award prior to an upcoming Pirates home game.
A 23-year-old native of Irving, Texas, McKee is in his first professional season after a record-breaking collegiate career at Cornell University, where he was a Hobey Baker Award finalist, a First Team All-American and the Ivy League Player of the Year in 2005. McKee, who signed with the Anaheim Ducks on Apr. 1, 2006, has a record of 4-0-0 with a 1.25 GAA and a .953 save percentage in four AHL appearances with Portland.
Other nominees for CCM Vector/AHL Player of the Week include Albany left wing Ryan Bayda, Bridgeport goaltender Michael Mole, Chicago left wing Brett Sterling, Grand Rapids forward Scott Parse, Hamilton center Corey Locke, Hartford left wing Nigel Dawes, Hershey left wing Chris Bourque, Houston goaltender Dieter Kochan, Iowa goaltender Dan Ellis, Manchester center Marty Murray, Milwaukee goaltender Pekka Rinne, Norfolk right wing Jack Skille, Philadelphia defenseman John Slaney, Providence left wing T.J. Trevelyan, Rochester center Kamil Kreps, San Antonio center Yanick Lehoux, Syracuse left wing Curtis Glencross, Toronto left wing Colin Murphy, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton center Robert Nilsson and Worcester left wing Mathieu Darche.


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Race Time With Apple
Jimmy Chen
On the Apple FaceTime campaign.
The socially progressive inter-racial couple demonstrating Apple's FaceTime may be a concession to the convention of the Asian/white combo; specifically, an Asian female with white male, and not the other way around. I'm an Asian male, and arguably biased, but let me point to an empiricism I hope is neutral. I'm less angry than simply tired.
According to OkCupid's dating research blog, in an article examining how race affects the number of messages sent and replied to, "White women prefer white men to the exclusion of everyone else—and Asian and Hispanic women prefer them even more exclusively. These three types of women only respond well to white men. More significantly, these groups' reply rates to non-whites is terrible." Granted, these people are on OkCupid, a less than scientific enterprise, and while I'm not keen on racial reductive reasoning, it seems—just walk down the streets—fairly reasonable. In fairness, nobody can be expected to be attracted to a particular race out of political correctness, which is why Apple's ultra-PC campaign of compulsive diversity hits less of a nerve than its own toe. Apple's ethos, and perhaps genius, is the sheen of the populace over the corporation. Marketing executives with degrees in social psychology get paid big salaries to come up with "Yeah, we need a black guy." iDuh.
All the FaceTime participants for both the iPhone and iPad feature an inter-racial couple, with the default White as the safe fulcrum; Asian/white and Black/white (Hispanics haven't made the socioeconomic grade yet). The family narratives, set forth by children, are usually white and cordoned with a white picket fence, artistically blurry in the background. It's the dating, courtship, and relationship phases that are inter-racial—Apple the pimp of a mulatto world. The implicit White race as the "value"—tonal, and perhaps even qualitative—by which the "other" is asserted is not racist so much as it is obtusely post-imperialist. Why not go all the way? Why not just a bunch of Hispanics and blacks pleasantly conversing? White reminds us we are still at home, that these conversations will always remain civilized.
Yes, I'd probably complain even more if the FaceTime campaign were exclusively white. Apple, in essence, is on the "right" side, and I acknowledge their sensitivity. Here lies the social paradox of our time: Political correctness, in response to a subconscious norm, is reduced from its necessity to a thoughtless motif. But sadly, just drive across this wide flat country, and you'll see it's still necessary.
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