NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has resolved nearly a thousand faint X-ray-emitting stars in a single observation of young stars in the Orion Nebula. The discovery--the richest field of X-ray sources ever obtained in the history of X-ray astronomy--will be presented on Friday, January 14, at the 195th national meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Atlanta, Georgia.
The Orion region is a dense congregation of about 2,000 very young stars formed during the past few million years. The discovery of such a wealth of X-ray stars in the closest massive star-forming region to Earth (only 1,500 light years away) is expected to have a profound impact on our understanding of star formation and evolution.
"We've detected X-rays from so many fantastic objects, such as very young massive stars and stars so small that they may evolve into brown dwarfs," said Gordon Garmire, Evan Pugh Professor at Penn State University, University Park. "Chandra's superb angular resolution has resolved this dense cluster of stars with arcsecond accuracy and unsurpassed sensitivity."
Garmire leads the team using Chandra's ACIS detector, the Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer, conceived and developed for NASA by Penn State University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The brilliant Orion region has awed humankind for millennia. The most massive and brightest of these nascent stars are in the Orion Trapezium, which illuminates the Orion Nebula, also known as Messier 42. The Trapezium and its luminous gas can be seen with the unaided eye in the winter sky in the "sword" of the Orion constellation.
Young stars, such as those found in Orion, are known to be much brighter in X-rays than middle-aged stars such as the Sun. The elevated X-ray emission is thought to arise from violent flares in strong magnetic fields near the surfaces of young stars. The Sun itself was probably thousands of times brighter in X-rays during its first few million years.
Although the enhanced magnetic activity of young stars has been known for some time, the physical causes and evolution of the activity are poorly understood, according to Dr. Eric Feigelson, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State.
"With hundreds of stars observed simultaneously, possessing a wide range of properties such as mass and rotation rates, we hope the Orion observation will help unravel the astrophysical principles underlying this phenomenon," Feigelson said. "X-ray astronomy now penetrates as deeply into the clouds as the best infrared and optical telescopes, permitting us to study high-energy processes during the earliest phases of star formation."
"This Chandra image is a milestone in the field of X-ray astronomy and very gratifying to me personally," said Garmire. "Chandra's sensitivity is 20 times better than achieved with the best previous X-ray telescopes."
A number of the ACIS X-ray sources in the Orion observation have special importance. Several are associated with a distinct cluster of higher-mass stars deeply embedded within the murky Orion Molecular Cloud, including the infrared-luminous Becklin-Neugebauer object.
"This is the first time X-ray astronomy has resolved individual massive stars still embedded in their natal cloud," said Dr. Leisa Townsley, research associate in astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State.
At least three ACIS sources are associated with cluster members with masses so small (roughly 1/20th of the Sun's mass), that they will evolve into brown dwarfs rather than true stars.
"They more closely resemble proto-Jupiters than proto-stars," said Dr. Yohko Tsuboi, visiting research scholar in astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State. "Over a dozen X-ray sources have no known counterpart, even in the most sensitive Hubble Space Telescope or infrared studies. These too may be very low-mass stars."
The ACIS team studying the Orion X-ray source includes Profs. Feigelson and Garmire and research scientists Patrick Broos, Leisa Townsley, and Yohko Tsuboi at Penn State; Steven Pravdo at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory; and Lynne Hillenbrand at the California Institute of Technology.
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., manages the Chandra program. TRW, Inc., Redondo Beach, CA, is the prime contractor for the spacecraft. The Smithsonian's Chandra X-ray Center controls science and flight operations from Cambridge, MA.
A Web site associated with this press release, http://www.astro.psu.edu/xray/orion/index.html provides high-resolution digital images (JPEG, TIFF and PostScript formats) and hypertext links to images of the Orion Nebula at non-X-ray wavelengths plus related material.


The one thing that determines the level of our potential, produces the intensity of our activity and predicts the quality of the result we receive—our attitude.
No other person on earth has dominion over our attitude. People can affect our attitude by teaching us poor thinking habits or unintentionally misinforming us, or providing us with negative sources of influence, but no one can control our attitude unless we voluntarily surrender that control.
No one else "makes us angry." We make ourselves angry when we surrender control of our attitude. What someone else may have done is irrelevant. We choose; not they. They merely put our attitude to a test. If we select a volatile attitude by becoming hostile, angry, jealous or suspicious, then we have failed the test. If we condemn ourselves by believing that we are unworthy, then again, we have failed the test.
If we care at all about ourselves, then we must accept full responsibility for our own feelings. We must learn to guard against those feelings that have the capacity to lead our attitude down the wrong path, and to strengthen those feelings that can lead us confidently into a better future.
If we want to receive the rewards the future holds in trust for us, then we must exercise the most important choice given to us as members of the human race by maintaining total dominion over our attitude. Our attitude is an asset, a treasure of great value that must be protected accordingly.
When you have the right attitude, you can do the remarkable.
Having the right attitude is an essential prerequisite for success and happiness. The right attitude is one of the fundamentals of the good life. That is why we must constantly examine our feelings about our role in the world and about our possibilities for achieving our dreams.
It is our emotional nature that governs most of our daily conduct in our personal and business world. It is the emotional aspect of our experiences that determines our behavior. How we feel about life's events is a powerful force that can either freeze us in our tracks or inspire us to take immediate action on any given day. With the right attitude, human beings can move mountains. With the wrong attitude, they can be crushed by the smallest grain of sand.
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A new study shows that supplementation with omega-3 fatty acids from fish oil may improve exercise performance in trained athletes by increasing blood flow, nitric oxide release, and maximum oxygen uptake.
There is a small but growing body of scientific evidence supporting the sports nutrition benefit of omega-3 fatty acids. In a new study published in the European Journal of Sport Science researchers evaluated the effects of omega-3 fatty acid supplementation on exercise performance of a small group of trained cyclists.
The study included 13 elite cyclists that were randomly selected to take either 1.3 grams of omega-3 supplements or a placebo daily for 3 weeks. Researcher's analyzed flow-mediated dilation (FMD, a measure of blood flow and vascular health), pulse wave velocity, serum markers (nitric oxide (NO) and asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA), and ultrasound measurements of endothelial function and maximum oxygen uptake both before and after the supplementation period.
Researchers observed a significant difference between the pre- and post-intervention baseline NO levels after the omega-3 supplementation, but not in the placebo group. There was also a positive correlation between the increased concentration of NO and maximum oxygen uptake in the supplemented athletes. The supplemented group also experienced a 5.25% increase in flow-mediated dilation (blood flow) that was not seen in the placebo group.
These findings suggest that an increase in nitric oxide levels resulting from omega-3 fatty acid supplementation may play an important role in cardiovascular mechanisms of adaptation that may enhance exercise performance in trained athletes.
Aleksandra Żebrowskaa*, Katarzyna Mizia-Stecb, Magda Miziab, Zbigniew Gąsiorb & Stanisław Poprzęcki Omega-3 fatty acids supplementation improves endothelial function and maximal oxygen uptake in endurance-trained athletes. European Journal of Sport Science Volume 15, Issue 4, 2015.
Motivating. Inspiring. Business-Changing. No matter how you phrase it, our recent U.S. Celebration was an event to remember.
What made it so memorable? The amazing insights of network marketing expert Eric Worre, of course.
Surely you were there taking notes. But if not, we've got you covered.
According to the expert, skills are the key to success in this business. Once you master the seven major skills, the fear disappears.
How are you at finding people? 0 = your address book is empty, 10 = you have more people than you have time to meet with. Make a conscious decision to get out of your shell and contact at least two new people a day.
Are you good at getting people to take a look at what you have and helping them understand it? Or are you scared to open your mouth? Your goal is to educate others and help them understand what you have to offer. Then you can help them make a decision.
Do you have a way to present that duplicates and gets results? Do you do it all yourself or drag others to join? Try telling your story—keep it brief, impactful, and exciting. And teach your team to do the same. Record yourself and listen to it over and over until you feel confident and the words sound natural. Learn the presentation and become the best on your team.
The fortune is in the follow-up. How are you at keeping in touch? It usually takes four to six exposures before someone will join. How many times will you follow up? Amateurs follow up once; experts persevere. Make objections your best friends, and make questions your go-to tools.
On a scale of 1–10, how interested are you in joining USANA?
Just between us, how much would you have to earn to make this worth your time?
How many hours are you willing to commit each week?
How many months will you commit to developing your business?
If I show you how to make this happen, would you get on board?
Once a new team member signs up, do you cut the strings and let them go? Hopefully not, because that's when the real work begins. Guide your new teammate through our compensation plan and tools, and make sure they connect with us online. Set up regular interviews to find out where they're at in their business, and make a game plan for meeting their goals.
Is your business focused on events? If not, it should be. Events are the best way to build belief, boost your business, and bond with your team. Now, that's some serious motivation. So, how many teammates and guests are you bringing?
Time to tally your score. How did you do?
Now that you have the results, pick a few skills you want to improve over the next few weeks. Then study, study, study, and practice, practice, practice.
Share your skill-boosting journey and connect with other Associates along the way using the #myUSANAcommitment hashtag. And be sure to mark August 19–22 on your calendar for the business-boosting event of the year, International Convention 2015—see you there!
A daily multivitamin/ mineral supplement taken long-term may help reduce cancer risk in middle-aged and older men.
A large study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, using data obtained from the Physicians' Health Study II, has found that the use of a daily multivitamin/ mineral supplement long term can reduce the risk of cancer occurrence.
In this randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled study of approximately 14,641 male physicians ages 50 or older from the United States, participants were randomly assigned to take a daily multivitamin/ mineral supplement or a placebo between 1997 and June 2011. During the median follow-up of 11.2 years, researchers recorded 2,669 cancer cases, including 1,373 prostate cancer cases and 210 colorectal cancer cases. When examining outcomes at the study's end, the researchers found an 8 percent reduction in total cancer occurrence among participants assigned to multivitamin use.
Although the main reason to take multivitamins is to prevent nutritional deficiency, this study reinforces the value of long-term consistent use of a daily multivitamin as a convenient and affordable insurance policy for good health and possible cancer prevention in middle-aged and older adults.
J. Michael Gaziano et al. Multivitamins in the Prevention of Cancer in Men: The Physicians' Health Study II Randomized Controlled Trial. JAMA. 2012;308(18):doi:10.1001/jama.2012.14641.
SALT LAKE CITY, May 11, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- To be considered the best takes years of hard work and dedication. Remaining the best is even more challenging. Yet USANA Health Sciences continues to show its competitors why it is an industry leader, claiming five Best of State medals for its innovative science and exceptional nutritional supplements, personal care and energy products.
USANA's natural Rev3 Energy® earned its seventh consecutive title.
USANA's Sense™ Self-Preserving Technology skin-care line received its seventh medal.
SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 5, 2015-- USANA Health Sciences, Inc. (NYSE: USNA) today announced financial results for its fiscal first quarter ended April 4, 2015. The Company also increased its financial outlook for 2015.
For the first quarter of 2015, net sales increased by 20.3% to $219.4 million, compared with $182.4 million in the prior-year period. The increase in net sales was driven by 41.9% growth in the number of active Associates, largely as a result of strong Associate growth in the Company's Asia Pacific region. Net sales, on a comparative basis, were positively impacted by: (i) continued momentum from the incentive program that the Company offered during the fourth quarter of 2014, which carried over for several weeks into the first quarter of 2015 in China, (ii) incremental sales that occurred ahead of price increases announced in China during the quarter, and (iii) a more favorable operating environment in China compared to the prior-year period. The Company estimates that the incremental sales ahead of the price increases in China contributed approximately $12 million to net sales for the quarter. Net sales, on a comparative basis, were negatively impacted by $9.2 million due to a strengthening U.S. dollar.
Net earnings for the first quarter increased by 19.0% to $19.7 million, compared with $16.5 million during the prior-year period. The increase in net earnings was driven by higher net sales. Although gross margins improved year-over-year by 100 basis points, and selling, general and administrative expense decreased relative to net sales, higher Associate Incentives expense offset these improvements. On a relative basis, Associate Incentives expense increased 300 basis points, due largely to the previously noted incentive program. Although we expected Associate Incentives to be elevated again during the first quarter as a result of this incentive, it came in modestly higher than anticipated.
Earnings per diluted share for the quarter increased 30.4% to $1.50, compared with $1.15 in the first quarter of the prior year. The increase in earnings per share was attributable to higher net earnings and a lower number of diluted shares outstanding due to the Company's share repurchases during 2014. Weighted average diluted shares outstanding were 13.1 million as of the end of the first quarter of 2015, compared with 14.4 million in the prior-year period. During the first quarter of 2015, the Company did not repurchase any shares of common stock.
The Company ended the first quarter with $128.6 million in cash and cash equivalents, zero debt and $61.2 million remaining under the current share repurchase authorization.
"The first quarter was an excellent start to another promising year for USANA," said Kevin Guest, USANA's President. "Our results for the quarter were better than expected, notwithstanding the typical pressure from the Chinese New Year and continued headwinds from a strengthening U.S. dollar. As reported, our double-digit sales, earnings and customer growth during the quarter were driven by the strong momentum we continue to see across our business and higher-than-expected sales in China.
"We also recently announced plans to enter Indonesia later this year, which will mark a milestone 20th market for USANA. Indonesia represents an excellent growth opportunity for our company in a market whose middle class is expected to double over the next five years. Our team is enthusiastic about the potential of this new market opportunity in Asia, a region that continues to generate significant growth for USANA," continued Mr. Guest.
Net sales in the Asia Pacific region increased by 31.4% to $155.9 million, compared with $118.6 million for the first quarter of the prior year. This year-over-year increase can be attributed to 43.0% sales growth in the Greater Chinaregion, 12.1% sales growth in the Southeast Asia Pacific region, and 26.6% sales growth in the North Asia region. Sales growth in Greater China was driven by triple-digit sales and customer growth in Mainland China, while growth in Southeast Asia Pacific resulted from double-digit sales and customer growth in most markets in that region. Finally, sales growth in North Asia was driven by double-digit sales and customer growth in South Korea. The number of active Associates in the Asia Pacific region increased by 58.5% year-over-year, and increased 9.8% sequentially. Net sales in the Asia Pacific region were negatively impacted by $5.5 million, on a year-over-year comparative basis, due to a strengthening U.S. dollar.
Net sales in the Americas/Europe region were essentially flat at $63.5 million, due primarily to continued pressure from a strengthening dollar, which negatively impacted sales by $3.7 million. The Company's results in this region were driven by double-digit local currency sales growth in Canada and Mexico. The number of active Associates in this region increased by 4.9% compared to the prior-year period.
The Company has posted the "Management Commentary, Results and Outlook" document on the Company's website (www.usanahealthsciences.com) under the "Investor Relations" section of the site. USANA will hold a conference call and webcast to discuss today's announcement with investors on Wednesday, May 6, 2015 at 11:00 AM Eastern Time. Investors may listen to the call by accessing USANA's website at http://www.usanahealthsciences.com. The call will consist of brief opening remarks by the Company's management team, before moving directly into questions and answers.
USANA develops and manufactures high-quality nutritional, personal care, and weight-management products that are sold directly to Associates and Preferred Customers throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, China, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, Mexico, Malaysia, the Philippines, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Thailand, France, Belgium and Colombia. More information on USANA can be found at http://www.usanahealthsciences.com.
(1) Associates are independent distributors of our products who also purchase our products for their personal use. We only count as active those Associates who have purchased from us any time during the most recent three-month period, either for personal use or for resale.
(2) Preferred Customers purchase our products strictly for their personal use and are not permitted to resell or to distribute the products. We only count as active those Preferred Customers who have purchased from us any time during the most recent three-month period.


This study investigates the extent to which the cell phone technology has impacted on the lives of young Kenyans, especially within the context of a university in Kenya. Kenya has had a tremendous technological leap from the 1990s where landlines were the main tools of communication, to mobile telephony where people can now communicate any time, any place. The ramifications of such a new and stunning technology in Kenya are very important, especially if there are pernicious effects emanating from the novel technology. This study involved 100 university students at the United States International University in Nairobi, Kenya. The questionnaires were randomly distributed and collected after a week. The entire survey took one month. The findings point out that mobile telephony has become an indispensable tool for most youth providing them with a great sense of control and freedom. However, the technology is also rife with concerns about personal autonomy, dishonesty, breach of cultural norms, personal security and that of others, especially when texting while driving, et cetera.
A book chapter by Prof. Fredrick Kangethe Iraki, a Lecturer at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at USIU - Africa.


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As Museums Scramble to Conserve New-Media Art, Professionals Search for Solutions at Tate Modern Conference
Should it be cherished like a relic or allowed to adapt to new formats?
Hettie Judah, November 24, 2015
Runa Islam First Day of Spring (2005)
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Richard Serra, Joan Joanas, Anxious Automation (Version 1) (1971)
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Opening Media in Transition, a conference on new media and time-based art held last week at Tate Modern, director Nicholas Serota noted that institutions responsible for showing such works faced complex issues. Primary among them was an "an element of redundancy" implicit in working with evolving technologies.
Serota was joined, over the three days of the conference, by voices from all sectors of the field, headed up by Tate's own head of collection care research, Pip Laurenson. Laurenson kicked off the debate with the question of whether new media works should be "cherished"—protected like relics of their era in the formats they were created in—or be allowed to "flourish" and take on an evolving life that would adapt to new formats, platforms, and means of access.
Conservators, research associates, curators, museum directors, artists of many flavours, and even a philosopher of the senses all weighed in with their two penny's worth, and threw out issues aplenty as they did so.
Sam Taylor-Johnson Brontosaurus (1994)
Evolving technology
Conference icebreakers don't get much better than a triple projection of Sam Taylor-Johnson's Brontosaurus, an intimate 1994 video work portraying a man dancing naked, his ecstatically gurning face and the helicoptering of his penis captured in languorous slow motion. The oldest, most cumbersome of the projectors produced an image, much like the dancer, that was warm and fuzzy; the second was a portable improvement on the first projector, but showed the image tinged green; the third was a contemporary digital projector that according to its presets maximized the sharpness and visibility of the image, rendering the scene hard-edged and somewhat clinical. Yes, it's easier to show a work on digital, but a "better" image isn't necessarily better for the art.
The New Media archive
Perhaps one of the most shocking issues to emerge during the conference was mentioned in passing by Rudolf Frieling, curator of Media Arts at SFMoMa who described the "typical predicament of media art curators… that you're responsible for works you've never seen." Works stored on hard drives, videocassettes, film reels or even as sets of instructions do not assert themselves, and as personnel change at an art institution it is dangerously easy for them to slip out of memory.
Bill Viola Nantes Triptych (1992)
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What is the Work?
Frieling also spoke about his experience of working with Julia Scher on restaging her work Predictive Engineering, first shown at the museum in 1993. A work that combined real-time and fantastical surveillance footage of the museum space itself, alongside motion responsive audio, Scher has radically updated Predictive Engineering in each of its subsequent showings in line with technology and surveillance culture.
Beyond the hours of surveillance footage generated by the work itself at each showing, what was it, precisely that the museum owned? "The museum carries the DNA of the work," decided Scher, who sees each updated showing as the offspring of that which came before.
Tania Bruguera Tatlin's Whisper #5 (2008)
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Changing Circumstances
Scher also touched on the impact of unpredictable cultural change on the way a work was read, and how fast contemporary art could stop feeling 'contemporary': "In 1993, if you said the word surveillance, nobody knew what you were talking about." Tate Research Associate Jonah Westerman brought up a more extreme example with Tania Bruguera's Tatlin's Whisper #5 (2008), in which two members of London's police force enter Tate on horseback unannounced and perform crowd control tactics on visitors. This is a work of art "composed of people's reaction to it"—what Tate owns are certain strictures, including one of wider context (it should be performed at a time of plausible societal unrest), and the insistence on real mounted police. As Westerman pointed out, Tate's ability to exhibit Tatlin's Whisper #5 depended to a decisive extent on the museum's current head of security and his solid relationship with the local fuzz.
Aleksandra Mir First Woman on the Moon (1999)
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Do you Change with the Times?
When Aleksandra Mir made First Woman on the Moon in 1999 she did so on "zero budget," using "seven different camera formats and edited by a first year film student… Little did I know this would be my most successful work." When Tate proposed installing the work for a year, Mir took the opportunity to work with the conservation team to adjust flaws in its colour and errors in the credits.
Or stay True to the Original Format?
Runa Islam's own economy of means drew her to use film—a medium that is now both a "revered art form and an outdated relic" as she put it. Islam (who has also used video) feels invested in the cultural context of her film use and appreciates the physicality of the medium, using its particular qualities to specific effect in works such Stare Out (Blink), (1998) which deploys negative footage and blank projection to generate a "positive" afterimage.
The hardware, too, influenced her actual film-making process when making works such as First Day of Spring (2005). While she wanted her work to be accessible to view, her use of film and her experience of the closure of the film labs in London informed the work she made.
Both Islam and fellow keynote speaker Hito Steyerl flagged up the issue of access—what was the point in a work being kept safe if it was out of sight? Problems of changing technology and the vexed question of how to stay "true" to a work only exacerbated the issue, as did issues of scale and space. Kira Perov, the executive director of Bill Viola's studio, pointed out that of the 240 works in Viola's archive very few were ever shown—even his Grand Palais retrospective only showed 20. "What is threatened is public access," said Perov. "Collections are not rotated enough, works spend years in storage, the pieces are only seen as a still image – the true intent of the artist is completely lost."
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Welcome back to MMM, the movie quote trivia game. I'm going through a classic movie phase, and I'm reading classic novels I've told myself I haven't had time to read.
This movie is an absolute MUST. LOVE IT! Put your quotes in the comments section!
"You give him credit for too much cleverness. My impression was that he's just another blundering American."
"You mustn't underestimate American blundering. I was with them when they "blundered" into Berlin in 1918."
"I don't mind a parasite. I object to a cut-rate one."
"That makes Rick a citizen of the world."
"You might as well question why we breathe. If we stop breathing, we'll die. If we stop fighting our enemies, the world will die."
"Well, what of it? It'll be out of its misery."
"Realizing the importance of the case, my men are rounding up twice the usual number of suspects."
"In 1935, you ran guns to Ethiopia. In 1936, you fought in Spain, on the Loyalist side."
"And got well paid for it on both occasions."
"The winning side would have paid you MUCH better!"
"There are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade."
I haven't a clue what this movie is, but from the sounds of the quotes you've posted here, it seems like something I'd really enjoy!
"Carl, see that Major Strasser gets a good table, one close to the ladies."
"I have already given him the best, knowing he is German and would take it anyway."
"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."


Round 1: Geardo militia type dudes are taking over the southern border. Without them, the American flag would be in SERIOUS dangerRound 2: An unreal interview with Dakota Meyer. We're throwing a MUST LISTEN on this oneRound 3: We got a user submitted question: what's the most disrespectful thing you've ever seen while you were in the service? Spoiler alert, a platoon leader got slapped in the mouth. Round 4: Bridezilla gets triggered when Marine shows up to a black tie wedding wearing dress blues. Who was wrong: the Marine or the Blushing Bride?
The U.S. Secret Service said agents intercepted packages of "possible explosive devices" addressed to former President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Also, reports Tuesday showed Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate and Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum receiving a free ticket to the Broadway show "Hamilton" as a gift from an FBI agent posing as a developer. The allegations could spark problems for Gillum, who is ahead of his Republican opponent in the polls. And Indonesia is the world's second-largest source of marine plastic waste. Some local cleanup groups and companies hope to solve the problem. That and more, in hour one of Here & Now's Oct. 24, 2018 full broadcast.
Before she published "Silent Spring," one of the most influential books of the last century, Rachel Carson was a young aspiring poet and then a doctoral candidate in marine biology. Although she couldn't swim and disliked boats, says historian Jill Lepore, Carson fell in love with the ocean. Gazing into tide pools, she pioneered a new kind of nature writing. Plus: David Attenborough, the reigning master of the nature documentary, shares lessons from a life spent observing life in every corner of the world; and the cartoonist Julia Wertz, who loves the obscure nooks, crannies, and histories of New York, takes us garbage picking on a neglected bit of shoreline where the trash of decades past keeps washing ashore.


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Q: Does adding a .0 after integer have any effect on division? I took a programming test, and my teacher took points off for diving by 3 instead of 3.0 , even though it appears I get the same answer.
volu = PI*(BASE*BASE)*(HEIGHT/3);

Does the .0 even matter in a c++ program, if so why?
Thank you!
EDIT: I used doubles for PI and BASE

A: (For what it's worth I find the way you have it to be rather prudent.)
If HEIGHT was an integral type then it would have been absolutely essential that you wrote 3.0 rather than 3. (3.0 is a literal of type double, cf. 3 which is an int.)
Otherwise the division would have taken place in integer arithmetic, causing the result to go off.
Personally I'd remove all the redundant parentheses and write it as
PI * BASE * BASE * HEIGHT / 3;

A: Yes, two integers will be divided using euclidean division. Adding the .0 changes it into a normal division, because you're no longer dividing two integers but an integer and a double.

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Bodoky Tamás Richárd (1971 –) magyar újságíró (Magyar Narancs, Internetto, Index, Átlátszó).

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Tanulmányait 1990 és 1995  között a Gödöllői Agrártudományi Egyetemen végezte, ahol általános agrármérnöki diplomát szerzett biotechnológia szakiránnyal, szakdolgozatát molekuláris genetikából írta.

1995 és 1996 folyamán az MTA Állatorvostudományi intézetének tudományos segédmunkatársa volt. 1996 és 2001 között a Magyar Narancsnál, az Internettónál, majd 2001-től 2010-ig az Index.hu hírportálnál dolgozott újságíróként, tech-tudomány rovatvezetőként, főszerkesztő-helyettesként és főmunkatársként.

2003 és 2010 között a Pécsi Tudományegyetem társadalmi kommunikáció PhD programban vett részt. Doktori disszertációját a magyar hírportálok megjelenéséről írta.

2009-től 2015-ig újságírást tanított a budapesti Károli Gáspár Református Egyetemen. 2011-ben megalapította az atlatszo.hu nonprofit oknyomozó újságíró portált és a watchdog civil szervezetet, amelynek főszerkesztője és ügyvezetője.

Tagságai szakmai szervezetekben
 A szarajevói székhelyű Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), valamint a washingtoni International Consortium of Investigative Journalism (ICIJ) nemzetközi újságíró-szervezetek tagja.

Díjai, elismerései
 Gőbölyös Soma-díj (2008)
 Minőségi Újságírásért díj (2009, 2010)
Justitia Regnorum Fundamentum díj (2010)
Pulitzer-emlékdíj (2010)

Források
 mediapedia.hu
 blog.atlatszo.hu

1971-ben született személyek
Élő személyek
Magyar újságírók
A budapesti Szent István Gimnázium diákjai

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Platydema triste es una especie de escarabajo del género Platydema, tribu Diaperini, familia Tenebrionidae. Fue descrita científicamente por Laporte de Castelnau & Brulle en 1831.

Descripción
Mide 6 milímetros de longitud.

Distribución
Se distribuye por Azerbaiyán, Georgia y Rusia.

Referencias

triste
Insectos descritos en 1831
Insectos de Asia
Fauna de Asia


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