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Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix
Imola GP: Top Things To Watch For In Round 2
Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix F1 2021 Season Feature
After a LONG gap from the 2021 Bahrain Grand Prix, Formula 1 is back! The Bahrain GP was a FANTASTIC race, and we can't wait to see what Round 2 of the season holds! In this post, we're going to refer to this race as the Imola GP. Formula 1 Pirelli Gran Premio Del Made In Italy E Dell'emilia Romagna 2021. That's the real name of this race. In English, it is the Formula 1 Pirelli Made In Italy and Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. But to make it shorter and easier to understand most people call it the Imola GP.
The Autodrome Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari hosts this race, as it did last year. Since the COVID-19 pandemic made it unsafe to race in many countries, F1 had to race at new countries and new circuits all over the world. 3 of the 2020 races were in Italy, and one of those races was at Imola. Imola has hosted F1 races for many years in the past, under the name of the San Marino Grand Prix. The San Marino GP first entered F1 in 1981, but it left the sport in 2006, to make room for the Belgian Grand Prix.
Last year, Imola returned to Formula 1, and it became an iconic and emotional race. There was plenty of action with crashes, Safety Cars, and plenty of side-by-side racing. Daniel Ricciardo FINALLY got a podium with Renault, and Mercedes became 7-time Constructors' World Champions. It. Was. Incredible. As the Vietnam and Chinese Grands Prix are not going to be in the 2021 calendar, Imola and Portugal came on the calendar to replace them. And after an exciting 2021 season opener, and after decades of history at Imola, we've arrived at the 2021 Imola GP, and here are the Top Things To Watch For.
The Hamilton-Verstappen and Mercedes-Red Bull Battle Continues At The Imola GP
Obviously, first on this list is this tantalisingly close battle between Mercedes and Red Bull, and Hamilton and Verstappen in particular. At the 2021 Bahrain Grand Prix, Max Verstappen took first in all 3 practice sessions and took pole in qualifying. In the race, however, there were 2 reasons that Hamilton. First Mercedes went for a strategy where they undercut Red Bull (pit earlier than Red Bull) for both of the pitstops. Then Hamilton held off Verstappen to take the win. The undercut part was some smart strategising from Mercedes, but the 2nd part was all about Hamilton's driving. Verstappen actually overtook Hamilton, but Verstappen made a mistake and went off track when he was overtaking Hamilton, so he had to give the lead back to the Mercedes.
And after that, Hamilton started pushing and wringing the pace out of his tires, while Verstappen just sat behind. Verstappen didn't expect that he would have to overtake Hamilton twice, so Verstappen had already taken the life out of his tires. In the end, Hamilton took a surprise victory and really showed his mettle. But the Bahrain GP proved that the fight is on for 2021. Mercedes won't be able to win their 8th title as easily as they won their 7th, and the same goes for Hamilton in the drivers' fight.
Some may say that Sergio Perez only finished in 5th in Bahrain, which means Mercedes already have a noticeable lead in the standings. But based on his overtaking moves and how he went from a pitlane start to finishing 5th, I think that all that Checo needs is some better luck and a good qualifying. Then he can challenge for podiums and for wins, especially because he's in a Red Bull. And data clearly shows that Red Bull have a better qualifying pace than Mercedes, so things might be even better than last time for Red Bull.
However, Red Bull were clearly faster in the medium and slow speed parts of the Bahrain International Circuit. Imola is full of high-speed corners, which can be an advantage for Mercedes. They were VERY dominant at Imola last year, and had a clear pace advantage. Although that isn't the most accurate representation of their 2021 pace, it certainly gives them hope for this year. Another factor is that there was a 3-week gap from Bahrain to Imola. After pre-season testing, Mercedes used the 2-week gap to make some serious gains. There's no telling whether they'll do the same for the Imola GP.
All we can really do is wait and watch to find out how this exciting battle unfolds. It's not exactly a championship battle yet; it's very early in the season. But it's a battle you don't want to miss! Also, in 2021, Mercedes and Red Bull aren't the only teams in the mix. In 2021, the field is closer than ever, meaning that there is no front field anymore, because the midfield have bridged the gap between the midfield and the front of the field.
The Field Is Closer Than Ever; The Midfield Has Caught Up
2021 is going to be the most exciting year of Formula 1 for a LONG time. The new aerodynamic regulation changes (the most major of the 2021 regulation changes) have brought the field MUCH closer together than it was in 2020. In 2020, if a driver was a second slower than the faster driver, they would pretty much have a secure spot in the Top 10 positions of the session. In 2021, if a driver is a second slower than the leader, they would be in the Bottom 5 positions. THAT'S how close F1 is in 2021, and that's exactly what we needed. That's exactly what the FIA were aiming for when they made the aero regulation changes.
Although the Bahrain GP was the first race of the season, it certainly got our hopes up for an exciting season ahead of us. And at the Imola GP, we're all hoping that the field stays as close as it was; if it doesn't get closer. Along with the overall field being closer, teams like McLaren and possibly Ferrari and AlphaTauri might've closed the gap from the midfield to the front of the field. Many believe that this has happened based on the great performance from Charles Leclerc and the McLaren drivers. After looking at qualifying and practice results, and the race results, it definitely looks like a promising theory.
So definitely expect some of the runners that were previously in the midfield to challenge for podiums this year. Hopefully, one or two of them might even secure race wins. It's still very early on in the season, but things are definitely looking promising in terms of the possibility that Mercedes and Red Bull won't be as far ahead of the others as they were last year.
Emotions Will Be Running High For Everyone
The Ayrton Senna Monument
The San Marino GP is home to many iconic moments in Formula 1, some of them good, but most of them bad. The Tamburello and Villeneuve corners saw many massive crashes. They were high-speed corners, which made them very dangerous. Gerhard Berger crashed heavily at Tamburello in 1989 when he went straight on into the barrier, where he was knocked unconscious and covered in fuel before his car burst into flames. Berger was lucky to survive.
In 1994, Roland Ratzenberger crashed at Villeneuve corner at qualifying. He had no front wing, meaning he had no steering and he crashed at high speed. He suffered a fracture to his skull and became the first driver to perish at the San Marino GP.
But worse than that Ayrton Senna, one of the greatest drivers to ever race in Formula 1, crashed too. In the race, he went straight on at Tamburello because of a mechanical failure and hit the barrier at 225 kph. He died, and it became one of the most fateful days in F1 history. The 1994 San Marino Grand Prix is unforgettable.
There is a statue of Ayrton Senna, just beyond the barrier at Tamburello. Going to Imola is incredibly emotional for the F1 world, and it will always be that way. The Tamburello and Villeneuve corners are now chicanes, making it much safer and low speed.
Ayrton Senna was a true legend. He inspired a countless number of people all over the world, including the drivers racing in F1 right now. He had such unbelievable talent, which brought him 3 Drivers' titles, and could've brought him more. Senna has his very own era of Formula 1, but that era ended with his life. 34 is an incredibly young age to die, and it's extremely emotional for F1 to race at the circuit where Ayrton Senna died.
"Being back in the place where he lost his life is always a bit imposing, a bit emotional for every Formula 1 driver because we know here we lost probably the most special talent that there was in Formula 1 history," said Carlos Sainz. It's a pure truth; it's always going to be imposing and very emotional for an F1 driver to race at Imola.
So we've gone through exactly what to watch out for at the Imola GP. Or as the name goes, the 2021 Made In Italy and Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. After a FABULOUS Round 1 at Bahrain, we can't wait to see how Round 2 unfolds and how the 2021 season turns out. Stay safe, and stay on the lookout for new posts!
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Information Management in an Electronic Age
John P. Sieminski, Esquire
Burns, White & Hickton, LLC
Information Explosion
The world is going digital and the business world is no exception. It is estimated that over 90% of new information is created on an electronic device in digital form. Of that electronic information, it is also estimated that approximately 30% is created, used, maintained, stored or destroyed without ever being printed to paper. The construction industry is no exception to this trend. The industry has embraced the use and exchange of information that, fifty years ago, would invariably have been created and used in the traditional form of paper drawings, specifications, letters, memos, and other traditional forms. For the reasons discussed below, electronic mail is a form of digital information that has achieved particular prominence and deserves special attention. In addition, the sheer volume of information created in business and non-business settings is staggering. Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley estimated, for the year 2003, that five exabytes of new information were created and that the amount of new information is growing each year. (One exabyte is1,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes OR 1018 bytes.)
Recent Cases Involving Electronic Documents
The move to doing business electronically has created interesting twists on traditional exposures and has created unique and significant liabilities for business organizations of all sizes. Courts are extending common law duties requiring the retention of information relevant to ongoing (or reasonably anticipated) litigation to information in electronic form. Applying the doctrine of "spoliation," courts across the country have consistently imposed sanctions on business who have failed to have their electronic information houses in order. The dollar value of the sanctions has often been enormous.
In perhaps the most-cited case, Zubulake v. UBS Warburg, a federal district court jury in New York awarded the plaintiff, Laura Zubulake $9.1 million in an employment discrimination matter. In what most observers agree would have been a routine employment case, the parties became embroiled in a protracted dispute about electronic data, mostly e-mails, that became critical to the result. The presiding judge issued a series of opinions that set forth a number of guiding principles in what has become known as "electronic discovery." In essence, the electronic discovery dispute centered on an allegation by the plaintiff, Ms. Zubulake, that certain e-mail communications by her managers contained evidence of the gender bias that she sought to establish as her primary claim.
After extensive discovery proceedings involving the existence and location of the allegedly discriminatory e-mails, it became apparent to the Court that UBS Warburg had failed to diligently seek and insure the preservation of all of the e-mail communications that might be relevant to Ms. Zubulake's claim. Upon review of the haphazard manner in which UBS Warburg approached the discovery process, the Court determined that UBS Warburg had not properly instituted and enforced a "litigation hold" preventing the destruction of potentially relevant electronic material. As a sanction, the Court at trial gave an adverse inference instruction to the jury, essentially advising it of UBS Warburg's electronic discovery transgressions and allowing the jury to assume that, had the relevant e-mails been produced, they would have impacted negatively on UBS Warburg's defenses.
More recently, the case of Coleman v. Morgan Stanley garnered considerable attention by the business and even the popular press. Financier Ron Perelman sued Morgan Stanley for fraud in connection with his sale of stock in Coleman to Sunbeam. A state court in Florida awarded Mr. Perelman $604.3 million in compensatory damages. More remarkably, however, the jury added $850 million in punitive damages to its verdict upon a finding that Morgan Stanley had not engaged in the electronic discovery process in good faith. This portion of the verdict was based primarily on a certification by Morgan Stanley that all relevant electronic information had been produced, when, in fact, a subsequent and significant volume of information was later discovered.
The litigation hold requirement is not applicable to just the financial or public sectors and has been applied to enterprises across the business spectrum. Any organization that anticipates, or reasonably should anticipate, litigation is required to take reasonable measures to preclude the destruction or disposal of electronic information that may be relevant to the matter.
Practical Effect on the Construction Industry
Of what relevance are these cases to architects, engineers, contractors, and other participants in the construction industry? Courts are imposing "litigation hold" duties on organizations who in are involved in, or who reasonably anticipate, litigation, regulatory investigations, or valid third-party requests for information such as subpoenas requiring the production of documents. In respect of the sometimes adverse and litigious nature of construction projects, construction industry participants should have policies in place to prevent the destruction of information, whether it is electronic or paper, that may be relevant to a dispute.
On the other end of the preservation-destruction continuum, the proliferation of information of all types presents challenges in the management, storage, and ultimate destruction of documents, both electronic and paper. There are good business reasons, recognized by courts, for regular identification and destruction or disposal of information that no longer serves a useful business purpose. The United States Supreme Court, in a case involving the demise of the Arthur Andersen accounting firm, recently recognized the validity of disposal of information pursuant to an appropriate document retention policy.
A corollary issue that arises in the absence of appropriate destruction pursuant to a defensible information management policy is the lost revenue associated with the time it takes, in both litigation and business settings, to handle information that could have been disposed of or destroyed. As anyone who has been involved in the discovery process in almost any construction-related dispute can attest, the soft cost of combing the project record for documents that a party is required to produce, or which may affirmatively be used by a party to assert its claims or defenses, is considerable. Given that, for example, the material on a half-full forty gigabyte hard drive, when printed to paper, might fill a file cabinet, it becomes apparent that document retention policies must be applied with equal vigor to both paper and electronic documents.
Electronic Mail: A Special Form of Electronic Document
E-mail is a form of electronic information that bears special scrutiny. It is estimated that over 80% of all business correspondence now takes the form of electronic mail. Like other forms of electronic documents, there are significant differences between e-mail and traditional paper that pose particular challenges. The speed with which e-mail can be sent and forwarded to hundreds or even thousands of recipients makes the process of printing paper correspondence, copying it, and stuffing it into envelopes to be deposited in a mail chute seem glacially slow in comparison. In addition, automatic copying and retention by electronic mail programs, ordinary backup procedures, and the retention habits of senders and recipients sometimes make the notion that any given e-mail message can be destroyed seem futile. Finally, like other forms of electronic documents, the digital information contained in e-mail is susceptible to being tampered with or changed by relatively unsophisticated users who have nefarious motives.
There is another troublesome aspect of e-mail that is not necessarily a function of the technology that produces it. There is perception of informality associated with e-mail that causes many users to include statements that they would never think to include in more formal correspondence such as memoranda or letters. Legal publications are replete with cases in which users of e-mail have sent messages containing clear and unequivocal evidence of negligent, criminal, or otherwise inappropriate behavior. Companies have also been exposed to civil liability as the providers of e-mail and other types of computer systems used inappropriately even though the use was clearly not related to the business carried out by the organization.
The Need for an Information Management Policy
Construction industry participants were, of course, early embracers of technology in the guise of the project web site, on which the communications process attendant to design and construction of a project is carried out in electronic form.
The cases and concepts described above make it clear that it is incumbent upon all business enterprises to manage the creation, use, and destruction of information in all forms. A comprehensive information management policy should include components setting forth the manner in which information may be created, obtained and used (i.e. a content-driven acceptable use policy) and the manner in which it should be retained, stored, and ultimately deleted or destroyed (i.e. a document retention policy). Experience has taught that there is no "one size fits all" policy: Information use is industry-specific and organizations within the same industry use and maintain information in different ways. Policies must therefore be tailored to fit the requirements and culture of each business organization.
Architects and other design professionals, for example, may be required to retain design documents for certain statutorily-mandated periods. It is incumbent upon contractors to retain documents pertaining to payroll and workers compensation coverage for appropriate periods. All businesses are subject to federal requirements pertaining to the retention of certain human resources documents. Additionally, all organizations must manage the enterprise-specific tension between the desire to retain relevant and useful information and the cost and waste associated with retaining large amounts of information that no longer serves any useful purpose.
Small organizations often believe that they are too small to be affected by these issues, but that is a short-sighted view. The multi-million dollar liabilities incurred by large organizations are easily scalable to smaller enterprises with a concomitantly less dollar value but similarly catastrophic effect on the bottom line. In addition, the cost of preparing a defensible information management policy can often be dwarfed by the consequences of failing to have one, a concept that also applies to organizations of all sizes. Finally, creation and adoption of a policy can constitute a complete waste of corporate time unless upper management supports the policy and it is regularly applied, enforced, and compliance is audited.
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Will Trump's Defense Picks Back-Up Trump's Anti-War Policies?
Just prior to the election our friend Ron Maxwell posted a pro-Trump op-ed "The war candidate vs. the peace Trump militarycandidate" as part of a point-counter-point series in the Rappahannock News.
If you believe that it is the duty and responsibility of the United States to be the policeman of the world, to spread democracy by military force in every corner of the globe, to forcibly remove dictators everywhere, to intervene militarily in foreign civil wars, to take sides between religious sects or deep-seated ethnic feuds, to use the American military to enforce a utopian world order by means of regime change and nation-building, then Clinton is your candidate.
If on the other hand, you believe the U.S. armed forces should be used only in defense of the United States and its national security (including its closest allies), then Donald Trump is your candidate….
In speeches and policy papers Trump has stated he will not use the American military for regime change, nation-building or intervening in foreign civil wars. He is surrounded by foreign policy experts, former government officials and retired military who share this point of view; who collectively have the experience, sophistication and know-how to back it up. Altogether it's a return to a realistic foreign policy which puts America first.
The way civil wars end is by one side winning. Pouring tons of lethal arms into a civil war or an insurrection does not lessen the bloodshed. It adds to it. In the case of Syria, what was the end game? A victory of jihadists to topple Assad? Yet another failed state? Who designated Syria as the enemy of the United States? Could it be the same cabal that designated Iraq as the enemy of the United States; that is currently demonizing Russia as the enemy of the United States?
Mr. Maxwell was right about Hillary Clinton and her cynical "why have an Army if you don't use it" approach to foreign policy.
The problem President-elect Trump now faces is, can he put together a national security team that shares his vision of an America First national security strategy?
Signs on that are at best mixed at this point.
Trump's choice of LTG Michael Flynn as National Security Adviser is encouraging, but his consideration of the perhaps brilliant, but definitely flawed, David Petraeus for Secretary of State and General James "Mad Dog" Mattis as Secretary of Defense demonstrates just how difficult it will be for Trump to find senior officials who share his views.
General Mattis was forced out of his job at Centcom in 2013 after a series of disagreements with the Obama White House over Iran. He argued — unsuccessfully — for a tougher military posture designed to deter Tehran from backing its proxies in Yemen and elsewhere in the region, a view shared less vocally by many others at Centcom.
General Mattis's recognition of the Iranian threat is in line with Donald Trump's view of the Iran nuclear deal. But does engaging in active confrontation with Iran, when others, such as Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States, have a more immediate and proximate interest fit with Trump's America First view of the Middle East?
General Mattis is also very much in line with some of Trump's criticism of social engineering in the military. In a book published this year about civilian-military relations co-edited with Foreign Policy contributor Kori Schake, Mattis warned of the danger of civilian leaders with a "progressive agenda" imposing "social change" on the military.
There were many compelling reasons that tens of millions of our fellow conservative – populist citizens voted for Donald Trump, but one of the most compelling is his exemplary and courageous willingness to rethink foreign policy.
It's important that all who join Trump's team share his vision and commitment to change course from the disastrous foreign policy of the recent quarter century. However, to find senior officials who share his views President-elect Trump may have to look beyond obvious choices who, though undoubtedly talented, have a long association with the failed policies he has promised to rethink.
Click the link to read Ron Maxwell's "Why Donald Trump: The war candidate vs. the peace candidate".
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Submitted by Arizona Don on Thu, 12/01/2016 - 12:41.
Donald Trump is a peace through strength president. A super strong America will not be confronted militarily. Nations have a tendency to talk rather than attack strong nations. That is not necessarily true with weak nations like obama has made America. It is true obama screwed up everything he touched and I mean everything. Even his main success the ACA is self destructing right before our eyes. It is certainly true he does not have the "Midas Touch." There is a lesson here and I for one hope America has learned it and never makes a mistake like obama again. It appears, since we were able to elect Donald, obama will not be able to complete his fundamental transformation into what ever he had in mind, and never explained, very likely communism. However, obama it seems was a community agitator rather than organizer. Or don't Americans still remember 2007 and before.
Donald J Trump ran for president to get America back on track and make her great again, safe again and prosperous again. obama ran for vacations and cheers every time he walked out on a stage. Those cheers fed his ego and narcissistic personality. He will be leaving office in about 50 days and he is still on OJT. I don't think that ever happened before.


I'm still here, even though I haven't been posting on my blog much lately. I do try to post daily on my Facebook page, so if you're looking for new projects and ideas, you can always go check it out HERE (or the link is at the bottom of each post).
Today I have a sweet bunny card to share - perfect for tucking in an Easter basket! We made this card at the March Chocoholic Chicks meeting. It's not hard, but it does use a variety of supplies.
I saw this adorable card on Wendy Cranford's blog. She even has a video tutorial on her post at http://www.luvinstampin.com/2016/02/youre-eggstraordinary-bunny-basket-easter-card.html. She also has a list of all of the supplies used to make this card. I will tell you that the stamp sets used are from the 2016 Occasions Catalog - Friends & Flowers (for the bunny) and Greatest Greetings for the words.
I hope you have a happy and blessed Easter!


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Just A Little & Tremors: Global Rhythms
Sat, 01 Aug 15, 15:00 - Sun, 02 Aug 15, 06:00
Oval Space, 29-32 The Oval, London, E2 9DT
Gilles Peterson, Channel One, Werkha (Live), Romare, Auntie Flo + More
A 15 hour day & Night terrace party with....
Romare
Channel One Sound System
(Mikey Dread & Ras Kayleb)
Auntie Flo
Werkha (Full Live Band)
Warren XCLnce
Tudor Lion
Carribean BBQ on the Terrace by White Men Can't Jerk
Topping the bill is one of the most revered selectors in the world - Giles Peterson. From his seminal label - Brownswood Recordings, to his BBC 6 Music show, to the revered Worldwide festival in Sète. His career spans 3 decades and his sets are some of the most eclectic and exciting to watch.
Channel One Sound System are one of the world's best known dub reggae sound systems. Running for over 30 years, Channel One built up their reputation as one of the main sound systems at Notting Hill Carnival, and have won the Red Bull Culture Clash TWICE - Channel One is made up of selector Mikey Dread playing roots reggae and consious steppas, the sound is completed by MC Ras Kayleb.
We are joined by Auntie Flo & Romare, producing some of the finest African inspired house and techno. Romare's album has really pushed him to the forefront of the house scene.
Rounding off we have Werkha playing with his full live band. Tru Thoughts & Brownswood have released his quirky soulful jazz. He has toured extensively across Europe as the support for both Bonobo and Chet Faker's support. Accolades don't get much higher than that.
To get your stomachs full for the long day & night we have invited White Men Can't Jerk to provide some Caribbean delicacies on the terrace.
Gin & Juice


Basically, competition is defined as a reciprocal negative interaction between biological organisms living close together in the same community at the same trophic level of an ecosystem. Competition mainly occurs when those organisms utilize common resources that are in short supply in the habitat; this indirect interaction is called 'resource competition' (also 'exploitative competition' or 'scramble competition'). Even if resources are not in short supply, competition also occurs when the organisms seeking those resources nevertheless harm one another in the process. This direct interaction by which one competitor actively and negatively influences another organism is called 'interference competition' (or 'contest competition'). Allelopathy is a typical example of asymmetric interference competition in plant communities: the growth of neighbors belonging to other species are inhibited by toxic compounds produced by the competitor and diffusing in the soil or in the atmosphere. Direct competition for space as a limiting, renewable, resource is sometimes called 'preemptive competition'.
By contrast to mobile organisms such as most animals, plants interact locally so that competition usually occurs only among neighboring plants rooted in position in a spatially structured community. The spacing of organisms is thus important in plant competition. Moreover, photosynthetic plants compete essentially for space and for abiotic resources, such as light, water, and a limited number of mineral elements (nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium, etc.), which are also locally consumed and supplied from the environment. Plants may also compete for pollinators and for soil organic compounds, such as vitamins or hormones produced by microorganisms. Nevertheless, contrary to herbivores or carnivores, all plants require the same few essential resources and consequently they can usually partition resources only in space.
Competition among organisms affects population processes within communities: two species sharing the same habitat negatively influence each other's population growth rates and depress each other's population sizes, performance, or dominance. Intraspecific competition occurs between organisms of the same population, that is, belonging to the same species. Interspecific competition occurs when two or more species experience depressed growth rate attributed to their mutual presence in an area.
The importance of interspecific competition in explaining species abundances in plant communities has received increasing attention in the field of community ecology and more specifically in the ecology of vegetation change. Among many other assembly rules, such as facilitation, herbivory, or other indirect interactions within and between trophic levels, competitive interactions between plants may influence compositional and structural changes in plant communities together with habitat selection and stochastic processes affecting the regional species pool.


The caspase family of cysteine proteases plays a conserved role in the coordinate demolition of cellular structures during programmed cell death from nematodes to man. Because cells undergoing programmed cell death in nematodes, flies, and mammals all share common features, this suggests that caspases target a common set of cellular structures in each of these organisms. However, although many substrates for mammalian caspases have been identified, few substrates for these proteases have been identified in invertebrates. To search for similarities between the repertoires of proteins targeted for proteolysis by caspases in flies and mammals, we have performed proteomics-based screens in Drosophila and human cell lines undergoing apoptosis. Here we show that several subunits of the proteasome undergo caspase-dependent proteolysis in both organisms and that this results in diminished activity of this multicatalytic protease complex. These data suggest that caspase-dependent proteolysis decreases protein turnover by the proteasome and that this is a conserved event in programmed cell death from Drosophila to mammals.


April 15 – House of Finland Open House, 12 noon-4 pm, Balboa Park, San Diego.
April 15 – LAFF meeting, 1 pm, Giddings Room, Pasadena Museum of History, Pasadena. Potluck lunch 1 pm, program 2 pm. Program: Finns in Space: My Life as an Astronomer by Seppo Laine, Research Scientist at Spitzer Science Center. Business meeting following the program.
April 29 – House of Finland Open House, 12 noon-4 pm, Balboa Park, San Diego. Vappu Celebration, 12 noon.
May 6 – House of Finland membership meeting, 10:30 am, Balboa Park, San Diego. Open House, 12 noon-4 pm.
May 13 – April 15 – House of Finland Open House, 12 noon-4 pm, Balboa Park, San Diego.
May 20 – April 15 – House of Finland Open House, 12 noon-4 pm, Balboa Park, San Diego.
May 27 – April 15 – House of Finland Open House, 12 noon-4 pm, Balboa Park, San Diego.
May 3 – Finnish American Heritage Society membership meeting, 7 pm, Finnish Hall, 76 North Canterbury Road (Rte 169), Canterbury.
May 19 – Chicken BBQ/Beer Tasting with Lawn Games, Finnish Hall, 76 North Canterbury Road (Rte 169), Canterbury.
April 22 – Friends, students and former students are all invited to extend their well wishes to Finnish language teacher Marita Cauthen, retiring after 37 years of teaching the language and now beginning a new chapter of her life in California. Ms. Cauthen is the long-time editor of the Finnish-American newspaper "Raivaaja", now an online publication. Come to the Finnish Center at Saima Park, 61 Scott Road, Fitchburg, 2-4 pm. Refreshments will be served.
April 22 – Finlandia Foundation Boston Chapter membership meeting, 3 pm, Scandinavian Cultural Center, Walnut Street, West Newton. Cultural Program: Pianist Mackenzie Melemed and soprano Ilona Jokinen.
April 28 – Pannukakku Breakfast, 8-10 am, Finnish Center at Saima Park, 61 Scott Road, Fitchburg. Finnish oven pancake, bacon, sausage, fruit, juice, Finnish coffee bread, coffee/tea. $7.
April 29 Vappu Piknikki, 12 noon-5 pm, Lodge of Knights & Ladies of Kaleva of Maynard, Fort Pond, Littleton.
June 24 – Summer Festival - Kesäjuhla, 10 am-4 pm, Finnish Center at Saima Park, 61 Scott Road, Fitchburg.
April 29 – Open House, 1-4 pm, Finnish Center Association, 35200 West Eight Mile Road, Farmington Hills.
April 29 – The 2nd Great Finnish Bread Bake Off, 3-5 pm, Inn at East Hill Farm, 460 Monadnock Street, Troy. Adults $7, children (5-14) $3. Admission includes tastings of pulla, a chance to vote for your favorite bread for the "People's Choice" award, a chance to win a door prize, a visit with the Inn's many farm animals and a beverage. Sponsored by the Historical Society of Cheshire County, The Finnish Heritage Society - Sovittaja and Inn at East Hill Farm. To become a contestant in the bake off visit www.hsccnh.org or call the Historical Society at 603-352-1895.
April 15 – Book reading, 3 pm, Finnish Church, 83 Christopher Street, NYC. Finnish writers Jussi Valtonen and Meritta Veilleux are visiting Finland Center Foundation at the church. The event will be organized in Finnish.
April 26 – After Work #3 "Pre-Vappu" event, 6 pm, Tuttles Bar & Grill, 735 2nd Avenue, NYC. Cash Bar.Sponsored by the Finlandia Foundation New York Metropolitan Chapter, the Finnish American Chamber of Commerce - New York and the Consulate General of Finland in New York.
April 25 – Finlandia Foundation Seattle Chapter Annual Meeting, 6:30 pm, Swedish Club, 1920 Dexter Ave N, Seattle.
April 29 Vappu piknik, 10:30 am, Idlywood Beach Park.
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WILMINGTON — Melissa Story closely monitored damage reports from the University of North Carolina Wilmington after Hurricane Florence. If Isaac Bear Early College High School, at the south edge of campus, was impacted, it might be guaranteed money for a facelift, or even the new brick-and-mortar building of her dreams.
But when the clouds parted, the 11-year-old modular building was miraculously untouched. The rest of campus was not so lucky, sustaining nearly $140 million in damage.
One year into her push for a permanent Isaac Bear building at UNCW, Story, whose daughter attends the school, is reorganizing her efforts. With the university in the midst of what will be a months-long — maybe years-long — process to repair its priority buildings, Story is focused on getting local legislators invested in Isaac Bear.
"I know that UNCW has been very challenged by the hurricane, and that's an understatement," Story said. "I wish there could be just a magic wand."
Cramped quarters
Isaac Bear opened in 2006, and moved to its modular home at UNCW in 2007. UNCW's Watson College of Education manages the school, while New Hanover County Schools pays student fees and reimburses the university for some staff costs.
Composed of a single hallway flanked by classrooms, teachers and students say they've outgrown Isaac Bear. There are not enough classrooms for each teacher to have her own space, and the cafeteria fits roughly a third of the school's 230 students.
This semester, Story formed a new building committee which sent out a survey to the Isaac Bear community. Out of 122 respondents, 93 were students, and they overwhelmingly said they need more room.
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UNCW officials have estimated a permanent Isaac Bear building would cost $20 million.
The initiative had become something of a pet project for outgoing Sen. Michael Lee, R-New Hanover, but he was unable to get a new Isaac Bear in this year's state budget or Hurricane Florence relief legislation. Lee lost his reelection bid in November to Democrat Harper Peterson.
Lee did not return a request for comment this week.
Story, who actually used to work for Peterson when he owned Island Passage clothing store, said she's optimistic about working with him on Isaac Bear, though she's yet to make contact with the senator-elect. On Jan. 3, her committee plans to host local legislators, including Rep. Deb Butler, D-New Hanover, for a tour of the school.
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Q: Incorrect NASM indirect addressing assembly on macOS Assembling the following code on macOS:
global start

default rel

section .text

start:
    lea rdx, [buffer + 0]
    lea rdx, [buffer + 1]
    lea rdx, [buffer + 2]
    lea rdx, [buffer + 3]
    lea rdx, [buffer + 4]
    lea rdx, [buffer + 5]
    lea rdx, [buffer + 6]
    lea rdx, [buffer + 7]
    lea rdx, [buffer + 8]

section .data

buffer: db 0,0,0

using the command nasm -fmacho64 -w+all test.asm -o test.o, yields: (with gobjdump -d test.o)
0000000000000000 <start>:
   0:   48 8d 15 38 00 00 00    lea    0x38(%rip),%rdx        # 3f <buffer>
   7:   48 8d 15 32 00 00 00    lea    0x32(%rip),%rdx        # 40 <buffer+0x1>
   e:   48 8d 15 2c 00 00 00    lea    0x2c(%rip),%rdx        # 41 <buffer+0x2>
  15:   48 8d 15 26 00 00 00    lea    0x26(%rip),%rdx        # 42 <buffer+0x3>
  1c:   48 8d 15 20 00 00 00    lea    0x20(%rip),%rdx        # 43 <buffer+0x4>
  23:   48 8d 15 1a 00 00 00    lea    0x1a(%rip),%rdx        # 44 <buffer+0x5>
  2a:   48 8d 15 14 00 00 00    lea    0x14(%rip),%rdx        # 45 <buffer+0x6>
  31:   48 8d 15 0e 00 00 00    lea    0xe(%rip),%rdx        # 46 <buffer+0x7>
  38:   48 8d 15 08 00 00 00    lea    0x8(%rip),%rdx        # 47 <buffer+0x8>

This looks correct. When then linking that into an executable using ld test.o -o test, we get: (with gobjdump -d test)
0000000000001fc1 <start>:
    1fc1:   48 8d 15 38 00 00 00    lea    0x38(%rip),%rdx        # 2000 <buffer>
    1fc8:   48 8d 15 32 00 00 00    lea    0x32(%rip),%rdx        # 2001 <buffer+0x1>
    1fcf:   48 8d 15 2c 00 00 00    lea    0x2c(%rip),%rdx        # 2002 <buffer+0x2>
    1fd6:   48 8d 15 23 00 00 00    lea    0x23(%rip),%rdx        # 2000 <buffer>
    1fdd:   48 8d 15 1d 00 00 00    lea    0x1d(%rip),%rdx        # 2001 <buffer+0x1>
    1fe4:   48 8d 15 17 00 00 00    lea    0x17(%rip),%rdx        # 2002 <buffer+0x2>
    1feb:   48 8d 15 11 00 00 00    lea    0x11(%rip),%rdx        # 2003 <buffer+0x3>
    1ff2:   48 8d 15 0b 00 00 00    lea    0xb(%rip),%rdx        # 2004 <buffer+0x4>
    1ff9:   48 8d 15 05 00 00 00    lea    0x5(%rip),%rdx        # 2005 <buffer+0x5>

And suddenly, unexpectedly, buffer + n gets changed into buffer + (n - 3) if n >= 3. The nasm version I'm using is 2.13.01 and the ld is macOS Sierra's system linker, with ld -v giving:
@(#)PROGRAM:ld  PROJECT:ld64-274.2
configured to support archs: armv6 armv7 armv7s arm64 i386 x86_64 x86_64h armv6m armv7k armv7m armv7em (tvOS)
LTO support using: LLVM version 8.0.0, (clang-800.0.42.1)
TAPI support using: Apple TAPI version 1.30

Why is this happening? Note that the same code seems to assemble and link fine on linux, as well as using yasm. In other places I read that nasm has some weird problems with the Mach-O 64 format, so this is probably a nasm bug in that area.

A: This seems to be fixed in nasm version 2.13.03, as tested today. (Also in 2.13.02, but that version has other problems with the macho64 target anyway, re @MichaelPetch; .02's output is equal in this case to .03's.) The output is as follows for the test.asm and commands given in the question.
nasm -fmacho64 -w+all test.asm -o test.o; gobjdump -d test.o:
test.o:     file format mach-o-x86-64

Disassembly of section .text:

0000000000000000 <start>:
   0:   48 8d 15 00 00 00 00    lea    0x0(%rip),%rdx        # 7 <start+0x7>
   7:   48 8d 15 01 00 00 00    lea    0x1(%rip),%rdx        # f <start+0xf>
   e:   48 8d 15 02 00 00 00    lea    0x2(%rip),%rdx        # 17 <start+0x17>
  15:   48 8d 15 03 00 00 00    lea    0x3(%rip),%rdx        # 1f <start+0x1f>
  1c:   48 8d 15 04 00 00 00    lea    0x4(%rip),%rdx        # 27 <start+0x27>
  23:   48 8d 15 05 00 00 00    lea    0x5(%rip),%rdx        # 2f <start+0x2f>
  2a:   48 8d 15 06 00 00 00    lea    0x6(%rip),%rdx        # 37 <start+0x37>
  31:   48 8d 15 07 00 00 00    lea    0x7(%rip),%rdx        # 3f <buffer>
  38:   48 8d 15 08 00 00 00    lea    0x8(%rip),%rdx        # 47 <buffer+0x8>

ld test.o -o test; gobjdump -d test:
test:     file format mach-o-x86-64

Disassembly of section .text:

0000000000001fc1 <start>:
    1fc1:       48 8d 15 38 00 00 00    lea    0x38(%rip),%rdx        # 2000 <buffer>
    1fc8:       48 8d 15 32 00 00 00    lea    0x32(%rip),%rdx        # 2001 <buffer+0x1>
    1fcf:       48 8d 15 2c 00 00 00    lea    0x2c(%rip),%rdx        # 2002 <buffer+0x2>
    1fd6:       48 8d 15 26 00 00 00    lea    0x26(%rip),%rdx        # 2003 <buffer+0x3>
    1fdd:       48 8d 15 20 00 00 00    lea    0x20(%rip),%rdx        # 2004 <buffer+0x4>
    1fe4:       48 8d 15 1a 00 00 00    lea    0x1a(%rip),%rdx        # 2005 <buffer+0x5>
    1feb:       48 8d 15 14 00 00 00    lea    0x14(%rip),%rdx        # 2006 <buffer+0x6>
    1ff2:       48 8d 15 0e 00 00 00    lea    0xe(%rip),%rdx        # 2007 <buffer+0x7>
    1ff9:       48 8d 15 08 00 00 00    lea    0x8(%rip),%rdx        # 2008 <buffer+0x8>

Worth noting is that my ld has updated and ld -v now gives:
@(#)PROGRAM:ld  PROJECT:ld64-305
configured to support archs: armv6 armv7 armv7s arm64 i386 x86_64 x86_64h armv6m armv7k armv7m armv7em (tvOS)
LTO support using: LLVM version 9.0.0, (clang-900.0.39.2) (static support for 21, runtime is 21)
TAPI support using: Apple TAPI version 900.0.15 (tapi-900.0.15)

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November 22, 2014 / Pace Your Game
Building attraction isn't always a sprint.
By: Trent Van James
[tvj@joshsway.com]
When it comes to approaching women, we've advised you to suck it up and do it, to avoid playing the long game, and how passive provider behavior just gets you in the friend zone. In short, platonically orbiting around a woman, doing favors for her and getting repaid with her attention, and hoping that will somehow lead to attraction — is completely idiotic.
But I want to tell you a story that I think addresses a common overcorrection that I see a lot of guys make. Last weekend I went out for a friend's birthday dinner, to be followed by drinks afterwards. His girlfriend came to dinner with one of her friends, a very attractive girl that was visiting from out of town. For the sake of this story, let's call the birthday boy Jack, his girlfriend Amy, and Amy's attractive friend Stacey.
What Not to Do: A Field Report
Besides me, there were three single guys in our group, and I literally saw all three of them fall over themselves hitting on Stacey. Our reservation wasn't ready at the restaurant, so we decided to get a drink at the bar while we waited. Within the first twenty minutes, before we were even seated for dinner, I witnessed the following:
One of Jack's friends — let's call him Friend A — made a beeline to her and tried to talk to her using the weakest of conversational common threads he could grasp to. "Oh, you live in Chicago? My grandmother grew up there. Well, Illinois. Yeah, I used to visit her all the time. Well, not since she died when I was 11. But yeah, it was great."
Then he was interrupted by Jack's Friend B — who interrupted their (admittedly lame) conversation by offering to buy Stacey a drink. Even though the gesture of "buying a drink" was pointless because all these drinks were just going to go on the dinner tab anyway, and her and Amy had already gotten themselves drinks anyway. So then he said, "Okay, let's do a tequila shot. I just got a huge bonus at my work, I want to spend it." Yeah, suggesting a tequila shot before dinner, right after one of the most painfully transparent DHVs about having a lot of money. Stay classy, Friend B.
Unsurprisingly, Stacey turned down the tequila shot. Jack's Friend C then entered the picture by making fun of Friend B, saying something like, "if you got such a huge bonus, hotshot, why don't you get shots for all of us?" This got a chuckle out of all of us, including Stacey. But then Friend C took her chuckle as a sign that "this girl is totally into me," and basically stuck to her like glue. We were finally seated at her table, and he nearly vaulted over half the chairs just to make sure he had a seat by her. He then proceeded to make one-sided small talk with her for the next 20 minutes, and then before we even ordered appetizers, he asked if Stacey if she was free the next night so he could "show her around our city." She politely declined by saying, "well, I think Amy already had plans for us tomorrow," which prompted Amy to say, yes, they did, and then changed the subject.
I barely talked to Stacey. She was definitely attractive. If I had seen her at a bar or a club, I wouldn't have hesitated to approach her. I wouldn't have clumsily tried to draw a common thread from the fact that she was from Chicago, I wouldn't have offered to buy her a drink in a crude way to express DHV, and I wouldn't have suggested that we go out tomorrow and "see the city." But I would have done something, within those first ten or twenty minutes, to build attraction and pave the way for future escalation.
So why didn't I do that here?
Time Not Always Your Enemy
I didn't hit on Stacey at the restautant for the same reason why I don't immediately hit on every attractive co-worker or mutual friend. In these cases, time is not my enemy. I will see these women more than once. And when I do see them, it may be for several hours at a time.
Contrast that when you see an attractive woman at a bar or in the most extreme example, in an elevator. In these situations, time is your enemy. You have a very limited time to build enough attraction to escalate or at least have an opportunity to see her again. And if you think you haven't built enough attraction, sometimes you just have to "go for it" because you'll never see her again otherwise. The elevator dings. It's her floor. She's about to walk out. Were your thirty seconds of small talk enough for her to be interested in going out with you? Only one way to find out!
But I wasn't in an elevator with Stacey. We were doing to spend several hours at a restaurant, and then several hours at a bar afterwards. Essentially, what I wanted to do was lay groundwork, albeit in the compressed time frame of one evening. I wanted to promote familiarity and passively demonstrate high value. This may sound contradictory to all the other advice we typically give on JoshSway.com, but let me explain how it's not.
You're Still Making the Same Mistake
As I wrote about in my bio, I was a Nice Guy. I hovered around attractive girls, hoping they'd see all my great qualities and fall in love with me. Whenever I did actually have the guts to ask one of them out on a date, they said things like "you're a great guy, but I don't see you that way, can we just be friends?" and I took that as a compliment. Eventually, when I met Josh and he showed me the error of my ways, I realized this 'friendship' was mostly useless.
You may be at the same point I was. You've learned that if you're interested in a girl, you grow some balls and make a move. If you take her out on a date, you make it clear it's a date and you're romantically interested. If she asks "can we just be friends?" you tell her no, you have enough friends.
But I see some guys, like Jack's friends A, B, and C, despite their aggressive moves to hit on Stacey, are actually making the same mistakes that Nice Guy Trent was.
Let me repeat that, because this could be one of the most crucial points I've ever made on JoshSway.com.
If you hover around girls being nice to them and hoping they'll like you, or hitting on them in a short time frame when you don't have to, you are making THE SAME mistake.
And that mistake is…
Escalating With Women With Insufficient Attraction
That's the mistake both types of guys are making,
Nice Guy Trent would hover around a girl for months, and then would sometimes confess his feelings in some sort of dramatic display. The girl was not into me. She was never into me. Why would she be? I did nothing to build attraction. I just went out of my to do favors for her and thought that would somehow translate into attraction on her side.
Friend A, B, and C are have made the same mistake though. They all made a bee-line to Stacey and immediately tried to escalate their interaction within the first couple minutes. They did this, probably because they were used to hitting on girls in a much more time-limited fashion. But it's not a mistake if you ask a girl out that you just met in the elevator. You escalated because you had to, otherwise she was just going to walk out the elevator and out of your life. You didn't have the option to keep building attraction.
But it's a mistake to do that with the cute executive assistant that just started at your office, or the new girl on your intramural sports team, or Stacey. If you ask girls like that out in the first ten minutes of meeting them, you will get shot down, and it will be for the same fundamental reasons Nice Guy Trent did: you failed to build sufficient attraction.
To their credit, Friend A, B, and C didn't waste a fraction of the time that Nice Guy Trent did. So at least they can say that. But while it's all good to be direct and aggressive when making your intentions known with women, if you do it in the wrong context, you still end up with the same outcome: rejection.
What to Do: A Field Report
So let's revisit my story, and talk about how I succeeded where Jack's friends failed.
I didn't talk to Stacey much at dinner. In fact, since she was getting so much attention from those guys, I actually made it a direct point not to talk to her. I wasn't rude, I didn't blow her off. But I made it clear that I wasn't going to fall in line as a fourth suitor that would stumble all over myself trying to impress her.
During dinner I tried to think of a way I could passively demonstrate value without bragging about "huge bonuses at work." I had a good opportunity to act like The Bank. No, I didn't blow a whole bunch of cash buying dinner for everyone or anything. But I organized all our Uber rides, and made sure our group was on the guest list for the bar we were going to. I made sure Jack, Amy, and Stacey rode in my car. I sat in the front seat with the Uber driver, so I still had minimal contact with Stacey at that point. I just wanted to isolate her from Friend A, B, and C.
We get to the bar. I order a round of shots for everyone in honor of Jack's birthday. This is where I decided to make a more direct move on Stacey. I hand everyone a shot but her. She looks at me expectantly. "Sorry," I said, "only friends of Jack get a shot." I let the priceless look on her face hang there for a few seconds, then laughed and handed her a shot.
We toast to Jack and a happy birthday. Right afterwards, Stacey came up to me and we had the following conversation.
Stacey: You know, I really started to wonder if I had done something to piss you off."
Me: "Why do you say that?"
Stacey: "Well, it's almost like you were ignoring me the whole time at dinner, and in the cab, and I don't really know you, I guess it's like you were acting like I wasn't in Jack's special friend club or something."
Me: "Well, you should get to know me better then."
Her: "Oh yeah?"
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What -- Hercules
What -- Constellation
What -- Earth
Where -- California
What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
Where -- Langley Research Center (LaRC)
Hubble Space Telescope Collection
NASA Image Exchange Collection
Planetary Photo Journal Collection
Glenn Research Center Collection
Spitzer Space Telescope Collection
nasa/dryden flight research center (nasa-dfrc)
nasa/jpl/caltech
nasa/glenn research center
nasa/jpl-caltech/t. pyle (ssc)
*animation:*: thomas goertel, (stsci [ http://www.stsci.edu/ ]) *wfpc2 and nicmos images:*: nasa [ http://www.nasa.gov/ ] and ethan schreier, (stsci [ http://www.stsci.edu/ ]) *ground-based image:*: noao/ctio
AIRCRAFT - C-5 GALAXY - C-130H HERCULES - YC-141B STRETCHED STARLIFTER
by NASA/Glenn Research Center
Topic: What -- Hercules
What's Up for June 2009
by NASA
Look up this month and see hundreds of thousands of ancient stars, all held together by gravity. It's the Hercules Globular Cluster - M-13!
Source: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/whatsup-view.cfm?WUID=144
Dr. von Braun In Front of a Display of Missiles
by NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center
In this photo, Director of the US Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) Development Operations Division, Dr. Wernher von Braun, is standing before a display of Army missiles celebrating ABMA's Fourth Open House. The missiles in the background include (left to right) a satellite on a Juno II shroud with a Nike Ajax pointing left in front of a Jupiter missile. The Lacrosse is in front of the Juno II. The Nike Hercules points skyward in front of the Juno II and the Redstone.
Topics: What -- Jupiter, What -- Hercules
Source: http://mix.msfc.nasa.gov/abstracts.php?p=1448
Crewmember in the aft flight deck with the HERCULES camera system.
Mission Specialist Kenneth Cockrell in the aft flight deck photographing the Earth with the Hand-held, Earth-oriented, Real-time, Cooperative, User- friendly, Location-taargeting, and Environmental System ''HERCULES'' camera system.
Topics: Who -- Kenneth Cockrell, What -- Earth, What -- Hercules
GALEX 1st Light Near Ultraviolet -50
by NASA/JPL/Caltech
This image was taken May 21 and 22 by NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer. The image was made from data gathered by the two channels of the spacecraft camera during the mission's "first light" milestone. It shows about 50 celestial objects in the constellation Hercules. The reddish objects represent those detected by the camera's near ultraviolet channel over a 5-minute period, while bluish objects were detected over a 3-minute period by the camera's far ultraviolet channel. Deeper...
Topics: What -- Galaxy Evolution Explorer, What -- Explorer, What -- Constellation, What -- Hercules, What...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA04278
GALEX 1st Light Near and Far Ultraviolet -100
NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer took this image on May 21 and 22. The image was made from data gathered by the two channels of the spacecraft camera during the mission's "first light" milestone. It shows about 100 celestial objects in the constellation Hercules. The reddish objects represent those detected by the camera's near ultraviolet channel over a 5-minute period, while bluish objects were detected over a 3-minute period by the camera's far ultraviolet channel. The Galaxy...
GALEX 1st Light Far Ultraviolet
This image was taken May 21 and 22 by NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer. The image was made from data gathered by the far ultraviolet channel of the spacecraft camera during the mission's "first light" milestone. It shows about 400 celestial objects, appearing in blue, detected over a 3-minute, 20-second period in the constellation Hercules. The Galaxy Evolution Explorer's first light images are dedicated to the crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia. The Hercules region was directly above...
Hubble Spies Shells of Sparkling Stars Around Quasar
Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: MC2 1635+119, MC2 1635+11.9 Object Description: Shell structure around a QSO Position (J2000): R.A. 16h 37m 46s.51 Dec. +11° 49' 49".34 Constellation: Hercules Dimensions: This image is roughly 1.2 arcminutes (600,000 light-years or 180 kiloparsecs) wide. Redshift The object has a redshift, z = 0.146. About the Data Data Description: The Hubble image was created from HST data from proposal 10421: G. Canalizo...
Topics: What -- Constellation, What -- Hercules, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), Where -- California,...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2007/39/image/c/
GALEX 1st Light Near Ultraviolet
This image was taken on May 21 and 22 by NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer. The image was made from data gathered during the missions "first light" milestone, and shows celestial objects in the constellation Hercules. The objects shown represent those detected by the camera's near ultraviolet channel over a 5-minute period. The radial streaks at the edge of the image are due to stars reflecting from the near ultraviolet detector window. The Galaxy Evolution Explorer's first light...
GALEX 1st Light Compilation
This compilation shows the constellation Hercules, as imaged on May 21 and 22 by NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer. The images were captured by the two channels of the spacecraft camera during the mission's "first light" milestone. The Galaxy Evolution Explorer first light images are dedicated to the crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia. The Hercules region was directly above Columbia when it made its last contact with NASA Mission Control on February 1, over the skies of Texas. The...
Topics: What -- Constellation, What -- Hercules, What -- Galaxy Evolution Explorer, What -- Explorer, What...
Langley Research Center Media Archive
by NASA/Langley Research Center
Image L60-6622 is available as an electronic file from the photo lab. See URL. -- Photographed on 09/22/1960. -- An examination of the Aerojet-General "Aerobee 150A" propulsion system in February 1960. James Hansen described this as follows: "As for the technical definition of the rocket...the Langley engineers tried to keep developmental costs and time to a minimum by selecting components from off-the-shelf hardware. the majority of Scout's components were to come from an...
Topics: SCOUT PROJECT., What -- Jupiter, What -- POLARIS, What -- Hercules, Where -- Langley Research...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2007/39/image/b/
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2007/39/image/d/
Blacker than Black (artist's concept)
by NASA/JPL-Caltech
Click on image for QuickTime Movie This artist's concept illustrates the hottest planet yet observed in the universe. The scorching ball of gas, a "hot Jupiter" called HD 149026b, is a sweltering 3,700 degrees Fahrenheit (2,040 degrees Celsius) -- about 3 times hotter than the rocky surface of Venus, the hottest planet in our solar system. The planet is so hot that astronomers believe it is absorbing almost all of the heat from its star, and reflecting very little to no light. Objects...
Topics: What -- Jupiter, What -- Venus, What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, What -- Visible Light, What --...
Blacker than Black
by NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle (SSC)
This artist's concept illustrates the hottest planet yet observed in the universe. The scorching ball of gas, a "hot Jupiter" called HD 149026b, is a sweltering 3,700 degrees Fahrenheit (2,040 degrees Celsius) -- about 3 times hotter than the rocky surface of Venus, the hottest planet in our solar system. The planet is so hot that astronomers believe it is absorbing almost all of the heat from its star, and reflecting very little to no light. Objects that reflect no sunlight are...
Source: http://sscws1.ipac.caltech.edu/Imagegallery/image.php?image_name=ssc2007-09b
Hubble Provides Multiple Views of How to Feed a Black Hole
by *Animation:*: Thomas Goertel, (STScI [ http://www.stsci.edu/ ]) *WFPC2 and NICMOS Images:*: NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/ ] and Ethan Schreier, (STScI [ http://www.stsci.edu/ ]) *Ground-based Image:*: NOAO/CTIO
*Description*: This NASA Hubble Space Telescope picture resolves, for the first time, one of the smallest stars in our Milky Way Galaxy. Called Gliese 623b or Gl623b, the diminutive star (right of center) is ten times less massive than the Sun and 60,000 times fainter. (If it were as far away as the Sun, it would be only eight times brighter than the full Moon). Located 25 light-years away in the constellation Hercules, Gl623b is the smaller component of a double star system, where the...
Topics: What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Sun, What -- Moon, What -- Constellation, What --...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1998/14/video/d/
Hubble Sheds Light on the "Faint Blue Galaxy" Mystery
by *Credit:* Rogier Windhorst and Simon Driver (Arizona State University), Bill Keel (University of Alabama), and NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/ ]
*Description*: One of the deepest images of the sky taken to date with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals a population of faint blue galaxies which turn out to be the most common class of objects in the universe. Their distances are estimated to range from three to eight billion light-years, meaning that they were abundant when the universe was a fraction of its present age, but are rare or harder to find today because they have faded or self-destructed. This picture, in combination with a...
Topics: HDF-N, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Camera 2, What -- Earth, What -- Moon, What --...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1995/08/image/a/
photo-sts098-s-001
STS098-S-001 (November 2000) --- This is the insignia for STS-98, which marks a major milestone in assembly of the International Space Station (ISS). Atlantis' crew will deliver the United States Laboratory, Destiny, to the ISS. Destiny will be the centerpiece of the ISS, a weightless laboratory where expedition crews will perform unprecedented research in the life sciences, materials sciences, Earth sciences, and microgravity sciences. The laboratory is also the nerve center of the Station,...
Topics: What -- STS-98, What -- International Space Station (ISS), What -- Space Shuttle Orbiter, What --...
Source: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-98/html/sts098-s-001.html
Turtle in Space Describes New Hubble Image
by *Credit:* Robert Rubin and Christopher Ortiz (NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/ ] Ames Research Center), Patrick Harrington and Nancy Jo Lame (University of Maryland), Reginald Dufour (Rice University), and NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/ ]
*Description*: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has shown us that the shrouds of gas surrounding dying, sunlike stars (called planetary nebulae) come in a variety of strange shapes, from an "hourglass" to a "butterfly" to a "stingray." With this image of NGC 6210, the Hubble telescope has added another bizarre form to the rogues' gallery of planetary nebulae: a turtle swallowing a seashell. Giving this dying star such a weird name is less of a challenge than trying to...
Topics: NGC 6210, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Camera 2, What -- FAST, What -- Advanced...
This artist's animation illustrates the hottest planet yet observed in the universe. The scorching ball of gas, a "hot Jupiter" called HD 149026b, is a sweltering 3,700 degrees Fahrenheit (2,040 degrees Celsius) -- about three times hotter than the rocky surface of Venus, the hottest planet in our solar system. The planet is so hot that astronomers believe it is absorbing almost all of the heat from its star, and reflecting very little to no light. Objects that reflect no sunlight are...
Source: http://sscws1.ipac.caltech.edu/Imagegallery/image.php?image_name=ssc2007-09v1
Blacker than Black (Widescreen Version)
Source: http://sscws1.ipac.caltech.edu/Imagegallery/image.php?image_name=ssc2007-09v1w
ASTER Gibraltar
by NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team
The Strait of Gibraltar separates Spain from Morocco. This image, acquired on July 5, 2000, covers an area 34 kilometers (21 miles) wide and 59 kilometers (37 miles) long in three bands of the reflected visible and infrared wavelength region. The promontory on the eastern side of the conspicuous Spanish port is the Rock of Gibraltar. Once one of the two classical Pillars of Hercules, the Rock was crowned with silver columns by Phoenician mariners to mark the limits of safe navigation for the...
Topics: What -- Hercules, What -- Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, What --...
F-8 DFBW with test pilot Gary E. Krier
by NASA/Dryden Flight Research Center (NASA-DFRC)
Former research pilot Gary E. Krier is the Director of Flight Operations of the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif. He was the acting Deputy Director effective June 30, 2001 to September 9, 2001. Until that time he was the Chief Engineer and also the Director of the Systems Management Office at Dryden. He had held the position of Chief Engineer since August 1, 1999, and he was appointed Systems Management Office Director in October 1999. Before August 1999, he had been the...
Topics: Who -- Gary E. Krier, Who -- Thomas C. McMurtry, What -- Space Shuttle Orbiter, What -- WIRE, What...
Source: http://nix.ksc.nasa.gov/info?id=ECN-3091∨gid=7
Hubble Sees Early Building Blocks of Today's Galaxies
by *Credit:* Rogier Windhorst and Sam Pascarelle (Arizona State University [ http://phy.asu.edu/ ]) and NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/ ]
*Description*: These 18 small blue objects - each 11 billion light-years from Earth - could be the seeds of some of today's galaxies. Each clump contains several billion stars. Astronomers believe that many of these objects have collided and merged with each other over time to grow into the giant and luminous galaxies seen around us today. The Hubble Space Telescope found these objects through the light of their hydrogen atoms. This light was redshifted from ultraviolet wavelengths to visible...
Topics: What -- Earth, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Visible Light, What -- Wide Field...
ASTER: Gibraltar
by NASA GSFC, MITI, ERSDAC, JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team
Topics: What -- Hercules, What -- ASTER, What -- Earth, What -- Terra, What -- STEREO, What -- Advanced...
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=1368
by *Credit:* NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/ ], ESA [ http://www.spacetelescope.org/ ], and G. Canalizo (University of California, Riverside)
*Description*: These sharp images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveal at least five shells of stars surrounding a brilliant quasar at the heart of a giant elliptical galaxy. The image at left shows the quasar, known as MC2 1635+119, and its host galaxy [center] against a backdrop of distant galaxies. In the image at top,right, the shells can barely be seen because of the bright light from the central quasar. The image at bottom, right was enhanced to reveal details of the faint...
Topics: MC2 1635+119, MC2 1635+11.9, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Advanced Camera for...
Hubble Pinpoints Distant Supernovae
by *Credit:* P. Garnavich (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) and the High-z Supernova Search Team and NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/ ]
*Description*: These Hubble Space Telescope images pinpoint three distant supernovae, which exploded and died billions of years ago. Scientists are using these faraway light sources to estimate if the universe was expanding at a faster rate long ago and is now slowing down. Images of SN 1997cj are in the left hand column; SN 1997ce, in the middle; and SN 1997ck, on the right. All images were taken by the Hubble telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. The top row of images are wider views...
Topics: SN 1997ck, SN 1997ce, SN 1997cj, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Camera 2, What --...
Pegasus Rocket Model
A small, desk-top model of Orbital Sciences Corporation's Pegasus winged rocket booster. Pegasus is an air-launched space booster produced by Orbital Sciences Corporation and Hercules Aerospace Company (initially; later, Alliant Tech Systems) to provide small satellite users with a cost-effective, flexible, and reliable method for placing payloads into low earth orbit. Pegasus has been used to launch a number of satellites and the PHYSX experiment. That experiment consisted of a smooth glove...
Topics: What -- Pegasus, What -- Hercules, What -- USERS, What -- Earth, Where -- Dryden Flight Research...
Source: http://nix.ksc.nasa.gov/info?id=EC96-43510-1∨gid=7
Pegasus Engine Ignites after Drop from B-52 Mothership
Against the midnight blue of a high-altitude sky, Orbital Sciences' Pegasus winged rocket booster ignites after being dropped from NASA's B-52 mothership on a July 1991 flight. A NASA chase plane for the flight is also visible above the rocket and below the B-52. Pegasus is an air-launched space booster produced by Orbital Sciences Corporation and Hercules Aerospace Company (initially; later, Alliant Tech Systems) to provide small satellite users with a cost-effective, flexible, and reliable...
Source: http://nix.ksc.nasa.gov/info?id=EC91-348-4∨gid=7
Pegasus Rocket Wing and PHYSX Glove Being Prepared for Stress Loads Testing
A technician adjusts the Pegasus Hypersonic Experiment (PHYSX) Project's Pegasus rocket wing with attached PHYSX glove before a loads-test at Scaled Composites, Inc., in Mojave, California, in January 1997. For the test, technicians slowly filled water bags beneath the wing to create the pressure, or "wing-loading," required to determine whether the wing could withstand its design limit for stress. The wing sits in a wooden triangular frame which serves as the test-rig, mounted to the...
Topics: What -- Pegasus, What -- Hercules, What -- USERS, What -- Earth, Where -- California, Where --...
Pegasus Mated under Wing of B-52 Mothership - Close-up
A close-up view of the Pegasus space-booster attached to the wing pylon of NASA's B-52 launch aircraft at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California. The Pegasus rocket booster was designed as a way to get small payloads into space orbit more easily and cost-effectively. It has also been used to gather data on hypersonic flight. Pegasus is an air-launched space booster produced by Orbital Sciences Corporation and Hercules Aerospace Company (initially; later, Alliant Tech Systems)...
PHYSX Glove Test
A mock-up of the stainless-steel Pegasus Hypersonic Experiment (PHYSX) Projects experimental "glove" undergoes hot-loads tests at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California. The thermal ground test simulates heats and pressures the wing glove will experience at hypersonic speeds. Quartz heat lamps subject this model of a Pegasus booster rocket's right wing glove to the extreme heats it will experience at speeds approaching Mach 8. The glove has a highly reflective...
Source: http://nix.ksc.nasa.gov/info?id=EC95-43263-10∨gid=7
Close-up of Pegasus Rocket Wing and PHYSX Glove Experiment
This close-up view of the stainless-steel Pegasus Hypersonic Experiment (PHYSX) Projects experimental "glove" shows a highly reflective surface, underneath which are hundreds of temperature and pressure sensors that will send hypersonic flight data to ground tracking facilities during the experiment's flight. The glove and the Pegasus rocket wing it is attached to were load-tested at Scaled Composites, Inc., in Mojave, California, in January 1997. The Pegasus wing with attached PHYSX...
Pegasus Rocket Wing and PHYSX Glove Undergoes Stress Loads Testing
The Pegasus Hypersonic Experiment (PHYSX) Project's Pegasus rocket wing with attached PHYSX glove rests after load-tests at Scaled Composites, Inc., in Mojave, California, in January 1997. Technicians slowly filled water bags beneath the wing, to create the pressure, or "wing-loading," required to determine whether the wing could withstand its design limit for stress. The wing sits in a wooden triangular frame which serves as the test-rig, mounted to the floor atop the waterbags....
Hubble Captures Stars Going Out in Style
by *Credit:* NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/ ], ESA [ http://www.spacetelescope.org/ ], and The Hubble Heritage [ http://heritage.stsci.edu/ ] Team (STScI [ http://www.stsci.edu/ ]/AURA [ http://www.aura-astronomy.org/ ])
*Description*: These four planetary nebulae imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope all lie in our Milky Way Galaxy. Their distances from Earth are all roughly the same, about 7,000 light-years. The snapshots were taken with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 in February 2007. Like snowflakes, planetary nebulae show a wide variety of shapes, indicative of the complex processes that occur at the end of stellar life. He 2-47, at top, left, is dubbed the "starfish," because of its...
Topics: NGC 5307, He 2-47, NGC 5315, IC 4593, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Earth, What --...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2007/33/image/f/


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Eric Garcia is FC Barcelona's second signing
The player will sign a contract until the end of the 2025/26 season and his buy out clause is set at 400 million euros
FC Barcelona and Eric Garcia have reached an agreement for the player to join the Club from 1 July one his contract with Manchester City is at an end. The player will sign a contract until the end of the 2025/26 season and his buy out clause is set at 400 million euros.
Eric Garcia will be presented today, Tuesday, as a Barça player with the following schedule (all time CEST):
At 1.15pm, signing of the contract in the President Suñol suite in a private event.
At 2.00pm, photo session on the pitch at Camp Nou.
At 2.30pm, presentation and subsequent press conference at the Auditori 1899.
Due to anti-Covid mesures the presentation of Barça's new signing will take place behind closed doors and it can be followed all over the world from 1.00pm on Barça TV+.
Enjoy Barça TV+!
Exclusive content involving the Barça player, series, documentaries, matches, press conferences and Live TV 24/7...plus lots more!
A defender for the future
The return of 20 year old Eric Garcia to FC Barcelona is now official. The defender joined the Barça Academy in 2008 and continued his development at La Masia until 2017 when he left for Manchester City where he spent four seasons featuring at U-19, U-23 level and for the first team.
A payer with a great future ahead of him, he is a defender very much suited to Barça's style of play. Captain at every level during his time at La Masia, always with the number 3 on his back, Garcia grew up with Carles Puyol, Gerard Piqué and Javier Mascherano as his role models.
Excellent at bringing the ball out from the back and an ability to read the game well, he has been able to improve further on his skills during his time in England with Manchester City.
In Manchester he initially formed part of the U-19 squad but his talent attracted the attention of the first team and he made his debut for Manchester City at the age of just 17 in a Carabao Cup game against Leicester City in December 2018. Garcia went to play in both legs of the semi-final against Burton Albion in the same competition later that season.
The departure of Vincent Kompany and injury to Aymeric Laporte opened up more opportunities for the Catalan defender and in total he made more than 30 appearances for Pep Guardiola's team.
10 things you need to know about Eric Garcia
Facts and stats to get to know the young Barça centre back a bit better
The defender's rise also caught the attention of national team coach Luis Enrique Martínez and after representing Spain at U-16, U-17 and U-21 level, he became the first players from the Barça Academy to make his debut for the full national side.
There he coincided once again with Ansu Fati, a player Garcia featured alongside for five seasons in the FC Barcelona youth teams. Friends since then, the two players will be side by side once again, fulfilling the dream they had as youngsters of playing together for the first team at Camp Nou.


As the seasons change from summer to winter, it suddenly seems as though the entire world is on fall foliage lookout. Although it happens every year, there's something so magical about the way green leaves transform into the most delightful shades of burnt orange, tart yellow, rich tan, and thousands of variations in between. If you're lucky enough to live in a city that experiences all four seasons, beautiful fall foliage may be sitting right outside your front door. However, for those who live in more , the best views of changing leaves call for a vacation.
We tapped Eastern U.S. Destination Editor Trisha Ping for insights and did a bit of our own research to determine the best fall vacations to take this year. The good news is, many striking fall foliage destinations are just a away (no matter where you call home). Yes, even who are used to perennially mild weather and palm trees can hop in the car to find of colorful trees just a few hours outside the city. You just have to know where to look. Fill up your tank and set your GPS, these are the best fall vacations for a quick trip to see the leaves change.


Panosteitis refers to a painful condition that affects the cat's long leg bones and is characterized by limping and lameness. It can occur with any breed, but it is more common in medium- to large-sized cat breeds and young cats around 5 to 18 months in age.
The inflammation can affect one or more of the cat's limbs, making it challenging and painful to move around. With treatment, the inflammation can be reduced and the cat can regain full function and activity.
Some cats also exhibit fever, depression, weight loss, and anorexia. Additionally, if the condition is not corrected, some cats may experience loss of muscle mass (atrophy) over time with the lack of muscle usage.
Overall, the causes of this condition are unknown. While lameness can affect any breed at any age, it is most common in younger breeds. The lameness may occur on its own or it may be accompanied with other orthopedic diseases.
Joint pain can last from days to months, and will range from mild to severe. Your veterinarian will examine your cat to rule out underlying conditions other than inflammation of the bones. X-ray imaging and blood analysis will be used to search for any underlying conditions. In most cases, the inflammation will be the cause of the pain and can be reduced with drug treatment.