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On Malibu's Carbon Beach, the oceanfront home of late "Happy Days" creator Garry Marshall is back on the market at $15.95 million. It first listed last summer for $18 million, records show.
He bought the place from Debbie Reynolds in 1981, and that isn't the property's only Hollywood connection. Scenes from Marshall's 2010 film "Valentine's Day" were filmed on the home's 40 feet of beach frontage.
Built in 1965, the estate holds a three-car garage in the front and a brick patio with a swimming pool out back. Five bedrooms and four bathrooms are found in 3,192 square feet.
The living room brings together hardwood floors, beamed ceilings and a floor-to-ceiling brick fireplace. A dining area sits in the corner of the room, and the space expands to a center-island kitchen.
Bookshelves line a loft on the second story. The top floor also contains the master suite, which opens to a beach-facing sun deck that spans the home's backside.
Tony Mark and Russell Grether of the Mark & Grether Group at Compass hold the listing.
Marshall directed his first silver-screen film, "Young Doctors in Love," in 1982, and went on to direct 18 others, including "Pretty Women" and "The Princess Diaries." He was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1997 and died three years ago at 81.


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Dual arches that playfully appear to dip and swirl above this football field provide the Khalifa International Stadium its unique appearance. Located on the outskirts of Qatar's capital city of Doha, the Stadium was recently revamped in order to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
Built in 1976, the Stadium has been the center of Doha's sports scene for nearly fifty years, hosting football matches, tournaments, championships and track and field competitions. Named for Qatar's former member of the royal family, Emir Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, the Stadium is both a beloved sports complex and a testament to excellence in athletics and technology. In addition to the arena, the grounds include a sports medicine hospital, school and museum.
The Stadium has undergone two significant renovations. First, it expanded in anticipated of the 2006 Asian Games where its seating capacity was doubled to 40,000 seats. In 2017, the Stadium was renovated a second time, adding a roof canopy and climate control technology.
Inspirations behind the arch design that now sits above the stadium is to establish visual continuity, but also to welcome sports fans from all over the world. The upcoming 2022 FIFA World Cup scheduled to be held at the Stadium will be the first World Cup in the Middle East.
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Ankara inspires Dhaka on reshuffling city management, transportation
Dhaka city Mayor Atiqul Islam shares experience in Turkish capital, inspiration with Anadolu Agency
SM Najmus Sakib | 28.12.2021
ANKARA, TURKEY - FEBRUARY 01: A view of murals on the stairs at Botanik Park located in the Cankaya district of Turkey's capital Ankara as Atakule is seen in back of it on February 01, 2021. People coming to the park photographed the pictures and the natural beauty of the park. ( Ali Balıkçı - Anadolu Agency )
Bangladesh is looking-for Ankara-Dhaka city-to-city cooperation to make its capital as a greenery and pollution free modern city by exchanging the best practices of governing mega-cities.
Dhaka Mayor Atiqul Islam expressed his desire during a recent visit to Turkey with Bangladeshi Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen to meet their counterparts.
Islam, who runs the Dhaka North City Corporation, spoke to Anadolu Agency in an interview to share his experience in Turkish capital Ankara and how it inspired him, on better regulating and improving city management.
Ankara experience can help Dhaka's reshuffling
Dhaka is ranked the fourth least livable city in the world on the Global Liveability Index 2021.
The mayor said government agencies were working to improve living conditions in Dhaka and that Ankara's design would help in the process.
"We find both so many historical and modern establishments and rich nature side by side, including lakes in Ankara which makes Ankara such an eye-catching city."
Meanwhile, waterway is a popular transportation in Turkey, he added.
"We have the same opportunity in Dhaka as have some rivers encircling the capital, Dhaka, and there are so many natural canals. If we can reclaim, renovate and beautify all the water bodies in Dhaka then we could make water transport a popular and comfortable transportation in Dhaka."
"Those great practices we could learn how those are being operated in Turkey and can exchange ideas for the betterment and beautification of our cities," he added.
- Ankara waste management inspires Dhaka
The city of Dhaka is home to about 20 million people living under the world's third-worst quality air in 2019, according to the AirVisual Index.
Its poor waste management, construction works, brick kilns, and rising number of fuel-burning vehicles are among the top causes of the pollution. Around 90% of residents are affected by serious dust pollution, according to the Save Environment Movement Bangladesh.
Mayor Islam also admitted to this situation, attributing the dust problem to a lack of maintenance from the parties involved in construction works in across the city.
He said Ankara's waste management was well equipped and that waste is taken underground, including to a secondary transfer station.
"I talked to the city mayor to learn about Ankara's waste management system. When I met and talked to Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and Ankara Mayor Mansur Yavas, I proposed a 'sister city concept' on taking our best practice in cities in Turkey and Bangladesh," he said.
The Turkish foreign minister and the mayor appreciated the proposal, he recalled.
"Talks we had, it opened scope to work jointly on city landscaping and beautification, and opened a new door in knowledge sharing and cultural exchange of cities."
All DNCC wastes dump to Amin Bazar landfill, outskirt of the capital Dhaka. Huge methane gas originates from the landfill which raises the temperature of the city.
We are working to generate electricity from the city waste; therefore, we have signed an agreement with a Chinese company to this end, Mayor Islam added.
And, once it started functioning, Dhaka city pollution would be halved, he said.
"On top of that, we inaugurated a bust of father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and a park after his name in Ankara. We have a similar plan of opening a park and sculpture of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. It would make our friendship go unbound and strengthen further."
City transportation improvement
Dhaka's poor traffic and road management slowed vehicular speeds to about 6.5 kilometers per hour (4.5 miles per hour) in the last 12 years and it causes 40% fuel waste, according to the Accident Research Institute of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology.
Poor traffic management is also causing huge financial losses. The city wastes $483,872 daily, said the study.
The mayor said he had held talks with his counterpart in Ankara on city road transportation best practices in Turkey.
"They have both public and private bus transportation and a health competition between the two. We shared our plan of bringing Dhaka city bus services under a franchise system," Mayor Islam added.
"We are enlisting all those and will share with Turkey about our best initiatives for the development of our city corporations while Turkey will also share the best initiatives of its city corporations under a possible formal agreement."
And, if we relieve the pressure on Dhaka city it would reduce the city traffic and if we can connect the neighboring city corporations like Savar, Gazipur, Narayanganj with Dhaka. Meanwhile, the mega project Padma Bridge, Dhaka metro rail and elevated expressway would further ease the traffic movement, improve the communication and comfort in capital Dhaka.
Dhaka mayor eyes Turkish cooperation towards the capital Dhaka city's journey of becoming a modern city.
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Q: WSL: QT application fails to start I have compiled a simple QT Quick application (using Ruby-Qml, but I don't think this matters) on Ubuntu (18.04) via WSL on Windows 10 v1903 and get the following error when launching with Xming.
QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-xxxx'
failed to get the current screen resources
WARNING: Application calling GLX 1.3 function "glXCreatePbuffer" when GLX 1.3 is not supported!  This is an application bug!
QGLXContext: Failed to create dummy context

Any ideas how to resolve this?

A: For those still on Windows 10 v1903:

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*Change from xming to vcxsrv

*If on a HighDPI screen change compatibility settings to let the application handle DPI scaling.

*Start vcxsrv without support for OpenGL indirection (-nowgl) and ensure that LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT is unset (export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=)

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I have compiled a simple QT Quick application (using Ruby-Qml, but I
  don't think this matters) on Ubuntu (18.04) via WSL on Windows 10
  v1903 and get the following error when launching with Xming.
Any ideas on how to resolve this?

The original version of WSL was not designed to run applications with a graphical UI.  There are ways around this by remoting into the instance with say Xming, but those solutions, don't always work as you have found.
The simplest solution is to migrate to a WSL 2 instance, Windows 10 version 1909 is the first version that supports WSL 2, which run an actual Linux kernel.
The simplest solution would be to upgrade to Windows 10 version 1909 since it's considered a cumulative update to Windows 10 version 1903, it should be just as stable as Windows 10 version 1903.
Yes;  While Windows 10 version 1909 is a feature update, it is running the same build (except incremented by 1) as Windows 10 version 1903.

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Q: What is the proper way to create .ebextensions for AWS Beanstalk through maven for Spring Boot app We have to customize hosts file in our dynamically generated Elastic Beanstalk instance of our Spring Boot application during our GitLab CI/CD pipeline. To do this, we need to provide a .ebextensions directory with a config file that looks like this:
commands:
  01_add_hosts:
    command: echo 123.12.12.123 myhost.com >> /etc/hosts

Since we have a spring boot application, we have to package .ebextensions at the root level of our fat jar. So, basically we unzip the jar, add the ebextensions directory and zip it back. This way we successfully achieve the Beanstalk customization in our Gitlab pipelines.
However, to make this process we use maven-antrun-plugin like this:
<!-- Bundle .ebextensions inside jar -->
<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.8</version>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <id>prepare</id>
            <phase>package</phase>
            <configuration>
                <tasks>
                    <unzip src="${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}.jar" dest="${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}" />
                    <copy todir="${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}/" overwrite="false">
                        <fileset dir="./" includes=".ebextensions/**"/>
                    </copy>
                    <zip compress="false" destfile="${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}.jar" basedir="${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}"/>
                </tasks>
            </configuration>
            <goals>
                <goal>run</goal>
            </goals>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>

The problem is that maven-antrun-plugin is and old plugin from 2014 and this looks like not the proper way to achieve this bundle jar.
Do you how or what it is the spring boot way to create this bundle jar? I mean add directories/files at the root level of the jar in spring boot? Bear in mind that we bundle this at our pipeline job time that deploys through AWS Beanstalk maven plugin.

A: The Build Helper Maven Plugin can be used for this. Create a folder .ebextensions in the project's root and add the plugin to the <build><plugins> section of the pom.xml:
<plugin>
    <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
    <artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <id>add-resource-ebextensions</id>
            <phase>generate-resources</phase>
            <goals>
                <goal>add-resource</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
                <resources>
                    <resource>
                        <directory>${basedir}/.ebextensions</directory>
                        <targetPath>.ebextensions</targetPath>
                    </resource>
                </resources>
            </configuration>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>

A: Is it required that you upload only a jar to elastic beanstalk? The way we do it is that we upload a zipfile, containing our fat jar, a .ebextensions directory and a Procfile. This way the ebextensions get applied and the Procfile contains the command to start the java process.
So for example you could upload hello-world.zip containing:

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*.ebextensions:

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*hosts.config

*hello-world.jar

*Procfile

With Procfile being a text file containing:
web: java -jar hello-world.jar
If you do it like this, there's no need to embed your ebextension files in your application jar, which makes things a whole lot easier in my opinion.
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Die Frunse-Straße (/uliza frunse) ist eine zentrale Straße in Kaliningrad, Russland.

Geschichte
Bis 1946 war es die Königsberger Königsstraße im Königsberger Stadtteil Neue Sorge (Königsberg), die zum Königstor führte. In der Nachkriegszeit wurde die Straße nach Michail Wassiljewitsch Frunse umbenannt.

Verlauf und Querstraßen
Die Königstraße führte vom Königstor in Richtung Westen zum Roßgärter Markt.

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Vergangenheit
 An der Königsstraße Nr. 26 (Dönhoffsche Haus) wohnte der Kommandeur der Ersten Division.
 An der Königstraße 28–31 befand sich das Landeshaus, der Verwaltungssitz der Regierung für die Provinz Ostpreußen. Das Grundstück gehörte einst der Familie Dönhoff. Das dreigeschossige Gebäude wurde im Jahre 1878 nach Entwürfen des Regierungsarchitekten Krah erbaut und anschließend dreimal ausgebaut. Es zeigte Fresken von Otto Brausewetter und Ludwig Noster.
 An der Königsstraße befand sich die 1733–1736 nach Plänen von Joachim Ludwig Schultheiß von Unfriedt erbaute Französisch-reformierte Kirche. Auf der gegenüberliegenden Seite der Straße befand sich die Kunstakademie Königsberg. In der Nähe des Kunstakademie befand sich ein Obelisk zu Ehren von Theodor von Schön. Auch befand sich entlang der Königstraße die Friedenskirche.
 Königsstraße 54: Die Häuser Königsstraße 54 bis 56 wurden fast gleichzeitig um 1700 erbaut und bildeten laut Mühlpfordt "die beste Baugruppe Königsbergs" bzw. waren laut Dehio "eine der besten Baugruppen der Stadt". Die Häusergruppe war Sitz des Landratsamtes für den Landkreis Königsberg.
 Königsstraße 55 (Dasselsches Haus): Das Haus wurde von Graf Eulenberg erbaut. Über der Durchfahrt befand sich früher ein Saal mit Wandmalereien. Die aufwändigen Stuckreliefs der Kamine wurden beim Umbau 1933 jedoch vernichtet. Das Haus verfügte über eine breit ausladende, einarmige Treppe, die an "altgermanische Ornamentik" erinnerte. Die Treppe in "prachtvoller Schnitzerei" zeigte einen Schützen mit Bogen auf der Hirschjagd zusammen mit vielen Hunden im Rankenwerk. Von den "reich geschnitzten" Treppen blieb nur die östliche im Original erhalten. Bei Umbauarbeiten 1936 hatte Paul Kimritz das Treppengeländer nach Hinweisen des Königsberger Museumsdirektors Edouard Anderson ergänzt und einen Elch neu hinzugefügt. Besonders gestaltet waren die Geländer und Pfosten der Dielentreppe des Hauses Königsstraße 55. Das Dasselsche Haus an der Königsstraße Nr. 55 wurde 1936 in eine Sparkasse umgewandelt.
 Königsstraße 56: Das Gebäude verfügte über eine Mitteldurchfahrt unter dem Balkon und hatte eine doppelarmige Treppe. Das "sehr schöne" Treppengeländer und die Pfosten zeigten "gutgeschnitztes" Rankenwerk mit Amoretten, Trauben, Adler sowie Löwen.
 Königsstraße 65–67 (Königshaus): In den Jahren 1730 bis 1732 erwarb Friedrich Wilhelm I. das Gebäude Königsstraße 65 bis 67 für den persönlichen Gebrauch von der Witwe des Kanzlers Ludwig von Ostau (1663–1727). Das Gebäude war als das Königshaus bekannt und wies aufwändige Stuckdecken auf. König Friedrich II. begründete eine Militärschule im Königshaus im Jahre 1741, das im Hause bis 1799 verblieb. Von 1810 bis 1901 befand sich im Gebäude die Königliche Universitätsbibliothek, bevor diese nach Tragheim umzog. Danach beherbergte es eine Sammlung von Gipsabgüssen von Antiquitäten der historischen Altertumsgesellschaft Preußen.
 In der Königsstraße Nr. 79 wohnte der Kanzler Karl Gustav von Goßler.

Gegenwart
Die südliche Straßenseite wurde mit einheitlichen Betonhochhäusern ausgestattet. Im östlichen Teil der Straße befinden sich erhaltene Wohnhäuser aus der Vorkriegszeit. Im Allgemeinen ist die Königsstraße wie andere ähnliche Straßen der Stadt auf rund 60 m verbreitert worden, nur in Höhe des Intendaturgebäudes ist die alte Breite von knapp 14 m erhalten geblieben. Erhalten haben sich zwei Wohnhäuser:

 Eckhaus Königsstraße Nr. 85, heute ul. Frunse 85
Das Eckhaus befindet sich an der früheren Königsberger Königsstraße Nr. 85 – ul. Frunse 85 in Kaliningrad. Das Gebäude wurde um 1890 im Rundbogenstil erbaut.

 Königsstraße 80, heute ul. Frunse 71
Das Gebäude befindet sich an der früheren Königsberger Königsstraße 80 heute ul. Frunse 71 in Kaliningrad. Das Gebäude wurde um 1870/80 im Stil des Spätklassizismus erbaut. Das dreigeschossige Wohnhaus war mit einfachen, aber doch gutbürgerlichen Wohnungen ausgestattet.

 Wohnhäuser Königseck
Die Gebäude an der Königsstraße 73–75, heute ul. Frunse 53–57 (Kreuz Apotheke) auch bekannt als "Wohnhäuser Königseck" wurden von 1900 bis 1905 im Jugendstil erbaut. Die im Krieg unzerstörten Gebäude waren gleich nach dem Krieg wieder bewohnt. Anfang der 1990er Jahre sollte das Haus saniert werden, wofür das Gebäude geräumt wurde. Die Sanierung unterblieb, das Haus verfiel.

Literatur

Einzelnachweise

Straße in Europa
Straße in Kaliningrad

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Set Master (10 points): Trigger 4 consecutive bankset changes on-beat.
Soloist (15 points): Trigger 20 consecutive freeform tracks on-beat.
Going Bronze (15 points): Earn 20 bronze medals in Jam Mode.
Going Silver (20 points): Earn 20 silver medals in Jam Mode.
Going Gold (50 points): Earn 20 gold medals in Jam Mode.
Arcade Master (30 points): Complete all jams in Arcade Mode.


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Discovery of one of the brightest distant galaxies ever seen
Astronomers have detected one of the brightest galaxies ever seen in the distant universe. The galaxy known as BG1429+1202 was discovered 11.4 billion light years away – which is some four fifths of the way back to the beginning of the universe -- thanks to a process known as gravitational lensing.
Trying to understand quantum gravity
Cosmologists trying to understand how to unite the two pillars of modern science -- quantum physics and gravity -- have found a new way to make robust predictions about the effect of quantum fluctuations on primordial density waves which are ripples in the fabric of space and time.
Scientists have found quantum imprints left on cosmological structures in the very early universe and shed light on what we may expect from a full quantum theory of gravity.
Breakthrough project
Astronomers are about to begin a new project to search for planets in our nearest neighbouring star system Alpha Centauri. The new search is part of the Breakthough foundation Initiative funded by Russian physicist Yuri Millner and British scientist Steven Hawking.
The foundation is already funding two other major projects -- Breakthrough listen t which is searching for radio signals from extra-terrestrial intelligence and Breakthrough Starshot which is developing a swarm of small spacecraft -- each fitted with a giant sail propelled by lasers -- which will travel to the Alpha Centauri star system.
Japan satellite crash and burn
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency – JAXA -- has lost a scientific satellite when its launch vehicle crashed and burned during accent.
Mission managers say all communications was lost after the first stage completed its 31 second engine burn.
Getting started in backyard astronomy
A look at entry level astronomy telescopes with Jonathan Nally from Australian Sky and Telescope Magazine.
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Galaxy murder mystery solved
Young galaxies can be violently stripped of their youth and turned old by superheated intergalactic plasma contained in large halos of dark matter. The new findings mean the process known as ram-pressure stripping is far more prevalent than previously thought and help to explain the process that appears to be killing off galaxies.
Could there be life on Pluto
A new study ponders the possibility of life existing on the distant world of Pluto. NASA's New Horizons mission explored the dwarf planet and its system during an historic flyby in July 2015. Among the myriad of stunning discoveries about this remote and frozen world was evidence of a possible sub surface ocean beneath the heart-shaped region on Pluto known as Sputnik Planitia.
Work begins on NASA's Dark Energy Hunter
NASA has announced plans for a new scientific instrument to study a mysterious force known as Dark Energy -- which dominates the cosmos and will determine not just the universe's ultimate fate – but also how soon that happens.
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Monstrous black holes discovered hiding in our cosmic backyard
Like monsters hiding under the bed -- two enormous black holes have been discovered lurking behind clouds of gas and dust in galaxies close to our own galaxy the Milky Way. The giant gravity wells – known as supermassive black holes -- were detected by NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array – NuSTAR – spacecraft by the high energy X-ray emissions they were generating as they feed on anything that ventured too close
More evidence for cycles of wet and dry periods found on Mars
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has discovered what look like mud cracks on the surface of the red planet. If confirmed, these would be the first mud cracks -- technically called desiccation cracks – found by the Curiosity mission.
Cosmic Dust found on roof tops
Scientists have found traces of cosmic dust on the roof tops in across Europe. The space dust particles – which are technically micrometeorites – were found of tops of buildings in Paris, Berlin and Oslo.
SpaceX returns to flight status
SpaceX has returned to flight status with the successful launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California carrying ten new Iridium telecommunications satellites into orbit. The flight was a double success for the Hawthorne California based company with the launch vehicle's first stage successfully landing on a floating platform in the North Pacific Ocean.
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The Milky Way's stolen stars
New studies have confirmed that some of the most distant stars in our Milky Way galaxy were stolen from neighbouring galaxies.
The findings are based on a study of 11 distant Milky Way stars -- all located about 300,000 light-years away and well beyond the Milky Way's spiral disk.
The Moon is much older than we thought
The Earth's Moon is at least 4.51 billion years old – that's between 40 million and 140 million years older than previously thought. The findings are based on a new analysis of zircons found in lunar minerals brought back to Earth by the Apollo 14 mission in 1971.
New telescope chip offers clear view of alien planets
Scientists have developed a new optical telescope chip for a telescope which will enable astronomers to have a clear view of alien planets capable of supporting life. Seeing a planet outside the solar system which is close to its host star – that is in the star's habitable zone – is extremely difficult with today's standard astronomical instruments due to the brightness of the star.
Hubble provides interstellar road map for Voyagers' galactic trek
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is being used to study the flight paths of the space agency's twin Voyager spacecraft allowing astronomers to see what the probes are flying through. The two Voyager spacecraft are hurtling through unexplored territory on their journey beyond our solar system. Along the way, they're measuring the mysterious environment between stars known as the interstellar medium.
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Stellar collision predicted for 2022
A pair of stars -- expected to collide in around five years -- should cause a blast powerful enough to be seen from Earth with the unaided eye.
Latest observations indicate the stars – which form a contact binary system known as KIC 9832227 -- have already merged their atmospheres and taken on a peanut like shape.
Deepest X-ray image ever reveals new secrets about black holes
An unparalleled image from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is giving astronomers the best look yet at the growth of black holes over billions of years beginning soon after the Big Bang. The observations contain the highest concentration of supermassive black holes ever seen, equivalent to about 5,000 objects.
Star heading for as flyby of our solar system.
The European Space Agency's Gaia mission has identified a star which will come close enough to our solar system to affect the orbits of comets in the Oort Cloud – the hypothetical sphere of comets and icy debris caught in the Sun's gravity well surrounding the solar system.
The star -- known as Gliese 710 -- will pass within 26 billion kilometres or 72 light days of the Earth in 1.35 million years' time.
Our galaxy's black hole flinging Jupiter sized projectiles in to space
Astronomers have concluded that the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy the Milky Way is ejecting giant planet sized balls of plasma every few thousand years. The plasma balls are the superheated remains of stars that have wandered too close to the monstrous black hole and were ripped apart in gravitational tidal disruption events.
China undertakes first launch for 2017
China has carried out its first launch for the year sending a Long March 3b rocket into space with a new experimental military telecommunications satellite. The TJS-2 satellite blasted into orbit from the Xichang satellite launch centre in Sichuan Province.
Strange rare galaxy discovered
Astronomers have found an unusual ring galaxy unlike anything ever seen before. The galaxy appears to include a well-defined elliptical-like core surrounded by two circular rings.
The universe's most powerful cosmic particle accelerator discovered
Two of the most powerful phenomena in the universe, a supermassive black hole and the collision of giant galaxy clusters, have combined to create one of the most powerful cosmic particle accelerators ever seen. The spectacle is showing scientists what happens when matter ejected by a giant black hole is swept up in the merger of two enormous galaxy clusters.
Discovery of the missing link between pulsars and magnetars
Astronomers have found the missing link between neutron star pulsars and highly magnetic neutron stars known as magnetars. The study is based on the discovery of a neutron star called PSR J1119 -6127which appears to be in a never before seen transition phase between pulsar and magnetar.
First results from the Parkes telescope's latest search for ET
Breakthrough Listen – a ten year 100 million dollar astronomical search for intelligent life beyond Earth has announced its first observations using the CSIRO's Parkes Radio Telescope. The project was launched in 2015 by theoretical physicist and Internet entrepreneur Yuri Milner together with fellow physicist Stephen Hawking.
World's highest capacity broadband satellite launched
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket has successfully blasted into orbit carrying the EchoStar XIX telecommunications satellite. The new bird will be the world's highest capacity broadband satellite providing increased high speed internet services across North America
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Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts linked to a distant dwarf galaxy and maybe a Magnetar
Astronomers are a step closer to finally determining what mysterious powerful energy blasts known as Fast Radio Bursts are. They've narrowed down a likely source to a distant ancient dwarf galaxy some three billion light years away – and possibly to a highly magnetic type of neutron star known as a magnetar.
Two new missions to explore early solar system
NASA has selected two missions designed to open new windows on one of the earliest eras in the history of our solar system -- a time less than 10 million years after the birth of the Sun. The missions, known as Lucy and Psyche will fly in 2021 and 2013 respectively.
Two more Near Earth objects discovered
NASA's NEOWISE mission has discovered another two previously unknown Near Earth Objects or NEOs heading for our celestial neighbourhood, including one that further blurs the line between asteroids and comets. One is an object called 2016 WF9 in an orbit that takes it on a scenic tour of our solar system, while the other is a new comet named C/2016 U1 NEOWISE which has a good chance of becoming visible through binoculars.
Dark Matter pioneer astronomer Vera Rubin dies at 88
One of the great pioneers of Dark Matter – astronomer Vera Rubin has passed away aged 88. Rubin's pioneering research measuring galactic rotation curves proved there was something fundamentally wrong with sciences understanding of the physics of the universe. Either there was a serious flaw in the laws of gravity or there was a great deal of unseen mass out there -- needed to explain observations of the apparent movement of galaxies in clusters. We now know that missing mass is Dark Matter.
Military satellite launched on Delta IV rocket
One of the world's most advanced military telecommunications satellites has been successfully launched into orbit. The eighth US Air Force Wideband Global Satcom system's satellite WGS-8 blasted into black skies aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket from Space Launch Complex 37B at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Base in Florida.
The Universe has lost up to five percent of its dark matter
The Universe may have lost between two and five percent of its dark matter since the big bang. The findings could explain one of the biggest mysteries in physics – namely why the Universe appears to behave slightly differently now compared to shortly after its formation13.8 billion years ago. The new study could also fresh shed light on how the cosmos is likely to evolve into the future.
JUNO completes third close flyby of Jupiter
NASA's Juno spacecraft has successfully completed its third close flyby of the planet Jupiter. At the time of closest approach -- called perijove -- Juno skimmed just 4,150 kilometres above the gas giant's roiling cloud tops -- traveling at 57.8 kilometres per second -- relative to the planet.
China places satellites into wrong orbit
Beijing won't admit it but one of its Long March rockets has placed two new Earth observation satellites in the wrong orbit. The mission was carrying two of Beijing's newest and most advanced SuperView 1 high-resolution Earth Observation satellites as well as a small cubesat.
January Skywatch
The Quadrantids meteor shower is now underway providing a spectacular light show for skywatchers.
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Hugh, The Duke of Kyle, is on a mission to rid the country of the Lords of Chaos—a secret society preying on defenseless women and children. The Lords know he's hot on their trail and are fighting back, but fortunately Hugh has the Ghost of St. Giles on his side. Little does he know, the Ghost of St. Giles is Alf—the very street urchin he's paying to help him root out information. But when he discovers Alf is not the boy she's pretended to be, sparks fly and both their lives are forever changed.
I was intrigued with how a romance between a duke and a street urchin would play out, particularly given these two had met in an earlier book with explosive results. Knowing Ms. Hoyt's skill, I had no doubt the romance would be satisfying and of course it is. Alf is a rare self-sufficient historical romance heroine, capable of making her own way in the world. She fights for those who can't and still manages to visit foundlings once a week. Yet she's missing love and a family. She finds both with a duke who has been burned by an unfaithful first wife.
Both Alf and Hugh are flawed characters who have some growing to do, and grow they do—together. Their love scenes are as hot as I expect Ms. Hoyt's scenes to be (though be warned, this author uses language from the period that some readers will label as crass). And the ending brought a tear to my eye. As always there's a little hook for the next book and I'm looking forward to that!
I haven't been disappointed with a single one!
A beautiful story. I love the cover. Thanks for sharing.
It is and yes, the covers in the series are so pretty!
Oh definitely try her, if you love one you'll adore them all!
She is! I particularly love the behind-the-scenes cover shoot photos.
I love this series. Sadly, I've fallen so behind. Hopefully, I'll manage to catch up in the near future.
Oh I hope so! the last two in particular are great.
I may have to try this one out!
Yay! I really enjoyed this one, too. They were such a curious pairing.
This really isn't my genre, but I couldn't read this because every time I saw "Alf" I would think of the hairy alien that was on TV in the 80s. LOL I'm glad that you enjoyed this story.
oh I can't wait to pick this one up!!! I have really enjoyed all the books of this series, and excited for Alf's story.


June meeting post poned one week!
To avoid Skeptical saturation, this months official meet up is shifted to next week, Tuesday 11/06/2013. Same bat time, same bat place.
If you do want to get out on Tuesday night (3rd), I will be going to Cafe Scientifique: Back to Blue…? Imagine the future of the Brisbane river at River Bend Books.
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Clarksville, TN – Crystal Nyhus, Mrs. Tennessee Petite America 2014, will host a collection drive for Sanctuary, Inc on Saturday, August 9th, 2014 from 3:00pm to 7:00pm at Tilted Kilt Pub & Eatery in Clarksville. The collection station will be set up as a tented area in the parking area of the Pub.
Items collected include any household items, toiletries, clothing, toys, books, etc. for the women and children needing their services.
Donors will receive a coupon for a free pub pretzel from the 'Kilt and one dollar domestic draughts will also be offered throughout the duration of the event. Assisting Mrs. Nyhaus in the collection drive will be members of the Clarksville Chive Group.
The Tilted Kilt's regular Second Saturday Car CruiseIn will also be held on the lot at the same time, offering donors and customers additional entertainment that day.
Tilted Kilt Pub & Eatery is located at 2790B Wilma Rudolph Boulevard in Clarksville.


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Q: Pasar resultado de consulta SQL a un archivo TXT C# Actualmente estoy intentando escribir en un archivo txt el resultado de un query, el código que utilizo es este, pero la consulta trae dos columnas y solo logro escribir la primera columna.
 SqlCommand comando = new SqlCommand("Select x,m * from xxx", cn);
                        SqlDataReader leer;
                        leer = comando.ExecuteReader();
                        while (leer.Read() == true)
                        {
                            FileStream Query = new FileStream("C:/DatosQuery.txt", FileMode.Append, FileAccess.Write);
                            StreamWriter Escriba = new StreamWriter(Query);
                            Escriba.Write(leer[0].ToString());
                            Escriba.Write(leer[1].ToString());
                            Escriba.WriteLine();
                            Escriba.Flush();
                            Escriba.Close();
                        }

Quedo atento a sugerencias, saludos.

A: Deberías cerrar el StreamWriter al terminar de escribir el archivo, es decir fuera del while y la creacion antes del mismo.
 FileStream Query = new FileStream("C:/DatosQuery.txt", FileMode.Append, FileAccess.Write);
    StreamWriter Escriba = new StreamWriter(Query);
    SqlCommand comando = new SqlCommand("Select x,m * from xxx", cn);
    SqlDataReader leer;
    leer = comando.ExecuteReader();
    while (leer.Read())
    {
      Escriba.Write(leer[0].ToString());
      Escriba.Write(leer[1].ToString());
      Escriba.WriteLine();
      Escriba.Flush();

    }
Escriba.Close();


Over the years, the former Mr. CARVER Meacham local children to the fact that the deep forests of the Pacific Northwest is pleased with stories about the fiery dragon. his daughter, Grace, who is a forester, to respect these stories tall Pete works as more than a little. Pete mysterious 10-year-old without a family and without leaving the house, a large green dragon named Elliott claiming to live in the forest. Petes description, substantially Mr. Elliot Meacham looks a lot like the dragon tale. Natalie, 11-year-old girl and her father, a local sawmill owner, Jack grace where Pete arrived at the scene to determine and establish the truth about this dragon.
Pete DragonIn this remake of the 1977 film, the forest ranger working in the woods stumbled a little boy named Pete. how to survive on their own in the forest with the boy and his father went to investigate Curious about six years. When he begins to tell the story of a dragon, no one believes him.
Mr. Meacham (Robert Redford), a woodcarver, a mysterious dragon delighted local children, live deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest tales. Her daughter Grace (Bryce Dallas Howard) is the only stories told Pete (Oakes Fegley), a 10-year-old orphan who lives in a large, friendly with a dragon in the woods, until she meets. Natalie (Oona Laurence) named with the help of a young girl, Grace sets out to investigate whether it is true that is a big statement.


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Q: Fixed point function Given a function $g(x)$ defined over $\Omega = [a,b]$ with the following properties:

*

*$\Omega$ stable by $g$ : $g(\Omega) \subset \Omega \iff \forall x \in \Omega, g(\Omega) \in \Omega$

*$\exists K,K<1, \forall x \forall y, |g(x)-g(y)|<K|x-y|$
How do I show that the function $g(x)-x$ changes sign over $\Omega$ and deduct that exists a fixed point over $\Omega$? I am inclined to use the fact that $(g(a)-a).(g(b)-b)<0$, but I am not quite sure how to get there.

A: $g(a) \in [a,b] \implies g(a) \ge a$. If $g(a)=a$, then $a$ is a fixed point.
$g(b) \in [a,b] \implies g(b) \le b$. If $g(b)=b$, then $b$ is a fixed point.
Otherwise, $g(a)-a>0$ and $g(b)-b<0$.
Finally, $|g(x)-g(y)|<K|x-y|$ implies that $g$ is continuous and you can apply the intermediate value theorem to $f(x)=g(x)-x$, as planned.


CAUSE is right around the corner! You know how this year's theme is "More than a Conference?" Well, our Wednesday night social is "More than a Networking Event." Join us in the vendor room between 5:30pm and 6:30pm for drinks, passed appetizers, and a chance to catch up with new and familiar faces from across the UNC system. It's more than just networking– it's fun!


EVGA Corp. on Tuesday announced that it has developed the EVGA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition graphics card. It costs $450. This news confirms a report that first surfaced in April that Mac users would get a GeForce GTX 285 card.
The GeForce GTX 285 is designed to work in 2008 and 2009-era Mac Pro systems, both of which are equipped with PCI Express 2.0 interfaces. It sports 1GB of DDR3 graphics memory on board, and features two Dual-Link Digital Visual Interface (DVI) ports, each capable of driving a 30-inch display at 2560 x 1600 resolution.
As the name implies, the card is based on Nvidia's GeForce 285 graphics chip — currently the high-water mark in Nvidia's single-chip systems for consumers. While Nvidia graphics cards and chips have been available in Macs for some time, this is the first time a third-party manufacturing partner of Nvidia's has offered a GeForce card in a Mac version.
EVGA expects the graphics card to appeal to gamers, graphic designers, art directors, illustrators, video producers, photographers and others looking for maximum 3D graphics performance out of their desktop systems.
Inside is a microprocessor clocked at 648MHz, equipped with 240 processor cores. Memory clock speed is 2584MHz, with memory bandwidth measured at 159GB/sec. PC hardware sites generally regard the GeForce GTX 285 as faster than any single-chip board competitor ATI has to offer.
ATI offers its Radeon HD 4870 as an add-on option for Mac Pros as well; that card began shipping in May around the same time that Mac OS X 10.5.7 was introduced.
The card is available now from Apple's online store for $450. An EVGA representative told Macworld that the card will be available from other online retailers in the coming days, as well.


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https://sixerswire.usatoday.com/2019/04/23/tobias-harris-addresses-sixers-7-year-losing-streak-in-toronto/
Tobias Harris addresses Sixers' 7-year losing streak in Toronto
The Philadelphia 76ers finished off the pesky Brooklyn Nets on Tuesday night by a final score of 122-100 and advance to the second round to face off with the Toronto Raptors.
Being division rivals, the Sixers and the Raptors match up four times a year—twice in Philadelphia and twice in Toronto. Believe it or not, the Sixers have not won at Scotiabank Arena since 2012, back in the days of Jrue Holiday, Thaddeus Young and Nick Young.
In order to win this series and advance to the Eastern Conference Finals, the Sixers will have to get at least one in Toronto to get it done.
"I think for us is to just go in and be solid with our game plan," Tobias Harris said of the keys to the series.
"Solid with how we're going to play and be focused. This is a tough Toronto team. We gotta come in there ready to play and ready to play as a collective unit all around and just be focused on getting a win."
The Sixers haven't won in the city of Toronto since 2012. They'll have to get 1 there in the next round to get it done. @tobias31 speaks on that here. #Sixers pic.twitter.com/eUXPvVuoVc
— Ky Carlin (@Ky_Carlin) April 24, 2019
This last win in Toronto was "pre-process," meaning a guy like T.J. McConnell, who has been with the Sixers for a while, has not seen a win over the Raptors on the road.
"As corny and as politically correct as it sounds, just playing a full 48 minutes," McConnell said of the team's keys.
"They've pretty much had our number there for quite some time so we have to go in with a different mindset and kind of settle their crowd down and come out with some fire."
The Sixers will have their chance this weekend.


I've been working for some time on developing the linguistics of Greyhawk's languages. It all started with the GH Dictionary project. After I'd gathered up as many "sample terms" as I could, I wanted to do more. I wanted authors, DMs and players to have a mechanism whereby they could create words, names and phrases for these languages and keep them sounding distinct and consistent.
At the same time, I had started looking into the lore surrounding the Baklunish people, trying to gather "what we know" about this culture before the Invoked Devastation. At some point, a few months back, I noticed there were very few sample terms for Ancient Baklunish. Coupled with my "baklore" obsession, I decided Ancient Baklunish would be my first linguistic target.
I'm happy to announce that I'm 95% done with the basics one would need to create Baklunish words. I've still got some kinks to iron out, but I plan to start creating a sample lexicon once I finish this journal entry. Sooo exciting!
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package gmap

import (
	"encoding/json"

	"github.com/gogf/gf/internal/empty"

	"github.com/gogf/gf/util/gconv"

	"github.com/gogf/gf/container/gvar"
	"github.com/gogf/gf/internal/rwmutex"
)

type AnyAnyMap struct {
	mu   *rwmutex.RWMutex
	data map[interface{}]interface{}
}

// NewAnyAnyMap returns an empty hash map.
// The parameter <safe> used to specify whether using map in concurrent-safety,
// which is false in default.
func NewAnyAnyMap(safe ...bool) *AnyAnyMap {
	return &AnyAnyMap{
		mu:   rwmutex.New(safe...),
		data: make(map[interface{}]interface{}),
	}
}

// NewAnyAnyMapFrom returns a hash map from given map <data>.
// Note that, the param <data> map will be set as the underlying data map(no deep copy),
// there might be some concurrent-safe issues when changing the map outside.
func NewAnyAnyMapFrom(data map[interface{}]interface{}, safe ...bool) *AnyAnyMap {
	return &AnyAnyMap{
		mu:   rwmutex.New(safe...),
		data: data,
	}
}

// Iterator iterates the hash map with custom callback function <f>.
// If <f> returns true, then it continues iterating; or false to stop.
func (m *AnyAnyMap) Iterator(f func(k interface{}, v interface{}) bool) {
	m.mu.RLock()
	defer m.mu.RUnlock()
	for k, v := range m.data {
		if !f(k, v) {
			break
		}
	}
}

// Clone returns a new hash map with copy of current map data.
func (m *AnyAnyMap) Clone(safe ...bool) *AnyAnyMap {
	return NewFrom(m.MapCopy(), safe...)
}

// Map returns the underlying data map.
// Note that, if it's in concurrent-safe usage, it returns a copy of underlying data,
// or else a pointer to the underlying data.
func (m *AnyAnyMap) Map() map[interface{}]interface{} {
	m.mu.RLock()
	defer m.mu.RUnlock()
	if !m.mu.IsSafe() {
		return m.data
	}
	data := make(map[interface{}]interface{}, len(m.data))
	for k, v := range m.data {
		data[k] = v
	}
	return data
}

// MapCopy returns a copy of the data of the hash map.
func (m *AnyAnyMap) MapCopy() map[interface{}]interface{} {
	m.mu.RLock()
	defer m.mu.RUnlock()
	data := make(map[interface{}]interface{}, len(m.data))
	for k, v := range m.data {
		data[k] = v
	}
	return data
}

// MapStrAny returns a copy of the data of the map as map[string]interface{}.
func (m *AnyAnyMap) MapStrAny() map[string]interface{} {
	m.mu.RLock()
	data := make(map[string]interface{}, len(m.data))
	for k, v := range m.data {
		data[gconv.String(k)] = v
	}
	m.mu.RUnlock()
	return data
}

// FilterEmpty deletes all key-value pair of which the value is empty.
func (m *AnyAnyMap) FilterEmpty() {
	m.mu.Lock()
	for k, v := range m.data {
		if empty.IsEmpty(v) {
			delete(m.data, k)
		}
	}
	m.mu.Unlock()
}

// Set sets key-value to the hash map.
func (m *AnyAnyMap) Set(key interface{}, val interface{}) {
	m.mu.Lock()
	m.data[key] = val
	m.mu.Unlock()
}

// Sets batch sets key-values to the hash map.
func (m *AnyAnyMap) Sets(data map[interface{}]interface{}) {
	m.mu.Lock()
	for k, v := range data {
		m.data[k] = v
	}
	m.mu.Unlock()
}

// Search searches the map with given <key>.
// Second return parameter <found> is true if key was found, otherwise false.
func (m *AnyAnyMap) Search(key interface{}) (value interface{}, found bool) {
	m.mu.RLock()
	value, found = m.data[key]
	m.mu.RUnlock()
	return
}

// Get returns the value by given <key>.
func (m *AnyAnyMap) Get(key interface{}) interface{} {
	m.mu.RLock()
	val, _ := m.data[key]
	m.mu.RUnlock()
	return val
}

// Pop retrieves and deletes an item from the map.
func (m *AnyAnyMap) Pop() (key, value interface{}) {
	m.mu.Lock()
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« On Approximately Fifteen Short but Essential Quotes from A Book of Memories by Peter Nadas
On the English Elm of Washington Heights »
On A Book of Memories
Today – after more than two months of reading over 700 pages of tightly wound dream and remembrance – we finally finished A Book of Memories by Peter Nadas. If you remember, it was a Michael Kimmelman interview with Nadas a few months ago that prompted us to write a diatribe against the beleaguered state of the "gay voice" in American fiction, which we defined as "a voice that resonates with perspective of the sexually-oriented 'outsider,' so that we come away with an understanding (and it does not have arrive by way of a literal representation) that 'heterosexuality' is, like certain governmental regimes, the subject of some dissonance, if not revolt… a voice that conveys an ambivalence for the present, a fundamental pessimism (in the philosophical sense) with regard to life, and an understanding that only the most obsessively detailed examination of the past can bring us any sense of reconciliation with a present in which we so obviously do not belong, or at least are not wanted by the more established and powerful elements of society."
At the time we were outraged that Kimmelman felt comfortable locating Nadas' book in the literary tradition of Marcel Proust and Thomas Mann, but could not be bothered to mention that this is fundamentally a gay tradition to the extent we have just outlined. Now that we have actually finished A Book of Memories and found our rage completely justified – the book is essentially a modern manifesto of the modern gay-recluse aesthetic of beauty, pessimism and psychological introspection written with a (gay) sexual frankness not possible (except for Proust, for whom nothing was impossible) in the early twentieth century – we feel less vindicated than saddened by the failure of Kimmelman and so many others to accurately and honestly describe the brilliance of this work and so many others like it (and the stifling effect this has had on American literature). It is not so much that anything said by these critics is so terribly wrong – after all, we are not oblivious to the importance of political oppression and economic concerns – but the sin they have committed is one of omission, and would be like describing the Mona Lisa without mentioning her smile (or more to the point, a masterpiece like Beloved without mentioning race).
A few words about the book itself: it is not an "easy" read (which is to say that it would never have found a publisher in the United States). The plot follows a young Hungarian living in East Berlin – where he falls in love with another man, a frustrated poet who longs to escape to the West – where he remembers both his childhood in Hungary and intersperses these memories with chapters of a belle-epoch novel he is also writing, in which the lead character closely resembles the Hungarian (in demeanor, if not circumstance). If that's not confusing enough, both narratives are written in the first person, are rarely chronological, and involve frequent digressions and tense changes as the author moves from narrative to philosophy and exposition. For the first 250 pages or so, it can be difficult to decipher which time period you are in, as both characters spend pages and pages going over the details of their very similar childhoods. Gradually, however, differences emerge and the Hungarian narrative in particular picks up a momentum that carries you through the final 400 pages or so; most compelling were the descriptions of his adolescence, the secret love he felt for one boy in particular, along with the shifting and often brutal alliances in a group of boys and girls in their immediate circle. It is hard to imagine anyone surpassing Nadas' depiction of both the terror and exhilaration – along with the seriousness with which games of love and treachery are played – that marks this period in our lives.
We had some problems with the book, none of which should prevent even the most mildly interested party from buying it as soon as possible and forming your own judgment! At times Nadas seemed needlessly circuitous as he would lead us up to a pivotal climax to a particular scene, only to digress away from it for a paragraph or two (easily skimmed, ahem) before getting to the denouement; nor did we love his occasional indulgence in what could loosely be called "micro" descriptions of bodily functions and secretions; in a way, it made the characters less believable in these passages, which seemed to be written not from a position of knowledge and experience but lifted from a textbook (in this regard – and this is not to be an attempt to speculate about the "real-life" Nadas – we will note that his descriptions of heterosexual scenes were far less believable than his homosexual ones).
Because this is a "book of memories," we thought we would leave you (in the post below) with a list of our own; these are the approximately fifteen passages we felt moved enough to underline or mark as we progressed through the book. Reading these over, we feel relieved to be done with Nadas, but also grieving just a bit at the loss, as if a ghost who has been whispering in our ear — by turns oracular and cryptic — has finally been laid to rest.
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Title: Self-assembly of extended structures through non-coordination intermolecular forces: Synthesis, crystal structures, and properties of metal complexes with 5-methyl-2-pyrazinecarboxylate
Author(s): Tanase, S.; Son, M. van; Albada, G.A. van; Gelder, R. de ; Bouwman, E. ; Reedijk, J.
Source: Polyhedron, vol. 25, iss. 15, (2006), pp. 2967-2975
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.poly.2006.04.024
Subject: Molecular Materials
Organization: Solid State Chemistry
Polyhedron
Issue: iss. 15
Page start: p. 2967
Page end: p. 2975
Three new complexes of 5-methyl-2-pyrazinecarboxylate (Hmpca) with cobalt(II), [Co(mpca)(2)(H2O)(2)], nickel(II), [Ni(mpca)(2)(H2O)(2)] and iron(III) [Fe(mpca)(2)(OH)](2) center dot 2H(2)O, have been synthesized and characterized by spectroscopic techniques, X-ray crystallography and low-temperature magnetic measurements in the range 5-300 K. The molecular structures of [Co(mpca)(2)(H2O)(2)] (1) and [Ni(mpca)(2)(H2O)(2)](2) comprise mononuclear complexes of cobalt(II) and nickel(II), with distorted octahedral coordination environments. In both cases, the mononuclear entities are linked through hydrogen-bonding and pi-pi stacking interactions to form two-dimensional network structures. The molecular structure of [Fe(mpca)(2)(OH)](2) center dot 2H(2)O (3) consists of a symmetric bis(mu-hydroxido)-diiron(III) core. The geometry around the two iron(III) ions is pseudo-octahedral due to the coordination of two mpca(-) ions in a bidentate chelating manner and of two bridging hydroxide ions. Adjacent dinuclear Fe-2(OH)(2) molecules are linked together via hydrogen-bonding and pi-pi stacking interactions, thus forming a two-dimensional network. Variable-temperature magnetic susceptibility data suggest that weak intermolecular antiferromagnetic interactions are effective in 1 and 2, while intramolecular antiferromagnetic interactions (J = -21.2 cm(-1)) between the two iron(III) ions are operative in 3. The spectroscopic and magnetic properties of the complex [Cu(mpca)(2)(H2O)] center dot 3H(2)O (4) are in agreement with the earlier reported mononuclear structure. (C) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.


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I was thinking of going sailing last Wednesday, but had to call it off because my not-for-profit organisation failed to meet crowdfunding targets.
Shame really as I had the perfect weather window, virtually no wind whatsoever, just how I like it.
The plan had been to waft sideways the six miles to Osea, drop anchor, have a light lunch of a locally sourced ethically reared Scotch egg from a sustainable source – a chicken – (the Scotch was for later consumption) and then waft back on the tide, all the while conducting scientific research into the floatiness of boats and the wateriness of water, and drawing attention to the horrific environmental damage done to our East Coast marine habitat by the invasive red trouser, which is spreading from the South Coast at an alarming rate and threatens to totally eradicate our native Burberry onesie.
It was to be an inner journey, outer journey, a voyage of self-discovery and something to do with an envelope, limits and challenges, man against nature, man against Sailfish, Sailfish against the world and whatnot. In short, I am nothing less than an 'ocean advocate'.
Above all was the scientific purpose: to explain once and for all why red trousers always gather on yacht club verandas at the onset of happy hour: this strange phenomenon is known as slack water. I reckon the findings would have been a real turn up.
Yet, there was an even higher purpose. If I'd survived I would have used the lifechanging experience to launch my global motivational speaking and team-building business.
Of course, you can listen to me most nights in The Queen's Head free, but locals find themselves so motivated by me that they've urged me to take my message further afield – and are willing to pay for it. This is known as mob-funding.
Alas, science, humanity, the world, The Queen's Head, are to be denied the secret of the red trouser. It's certainly a pressing issue, not only in the 'Amble where butlers do that kind of stuff, but up here where there's an epidemic at Burn'em on the Crutch.
Problem is, crowdfunded sailing's just too crowded.
For example, to emphasise the damage plastics are doing to the environment I was going to undertake the entire expedition in a piece of environmentally sustainable plastic marine waste known as a Sailfish 18.
This was to be no ordinary Sailfish – as if there were such a thing – but a brand new crowdfunded Sailfish made entirely out of plastic microbeads and money, which is now also plastic. It would be pretty costly cos to make the microbeads I was going to have to shred a huge number of new plastic fivers, which have the perfect Sailfish-hued blue pigment.
As the tenners are the wrong colour, proceeds from those would be put towards 'outreach projects' – to the Green Man in Bradwell.
Trouble is no one bought it. The other idea was to set off with a crew made up entirely of one disadvantaged youth, namely me – on some planets I'm considered quite young. As this was 100% male it fell apart on diversity targets. The teambuilding pitch didn't fare much better.
Mine was to be a unique one-on-one approach, message statement: There is an 'I' in team, but only one.
What I really need is a bigger boat, and I'm after about £80k for something beautiful and elegant. If you crowdfund this you'll get a tote bag, or a 90-minute Skype 'consultation'. Then in return, I'll do a little bit of some of the above and then sail off round the world, in a boat you paid for. That really doesn't float my boat.
But after failing to get crowdfunding for going sailing last Wednesday I did go on Thursday, with my mate Tommy, in his Edwardian pilot cutter.
He paid for it with stuff called money, that you get from stuff called work. We didn't learn a thing because both of us already knew that to pay for your pleasures with the fruit of your own labour is a bigger reward than anything anyone else can give.
Still puzzled about the red trousers though. I hear there are quite a lot in Antigua and need crowdfunding to find out why.


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