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Constellation Lyra The Lyre Of Orpheus Includes Interesting Double Stars

Learn about the double stars of the constellation Lyra and how Orpheus used his lyre to charm women and Hades the god of the underworld. He even saved Jason and the Argonauts from the lure of the Sirens.

 Symbolism: Lyra the lyre, a musical instrument with strings used in antiquity.

northern-constellations-lyraMythology: Lyra represents the lyre of Orpheus, the musician and poet in Greek mythology. There are many stories of Orpheus. In one he saves Jason and the Argonauts when his beautiful music quells the voices of the Sirens as they attempted to lure the Argonauts to their death on the rocky shores of the Sirens’ Island. In another story Orpheus descends into the underworld to bring his wife back to life. Orpheus charms Hades with his melodies, but ultimately fails to bring Eurydice back to the land of the living.

When is it visible? The constellation Lyra is best seen from June through October in the northern hemisphere and much of the southern hemisphere directly overhead. Follow the Name a Star Space Blog to learn what is coming in September?

How to find it? Lyra, the northernmost of the August constellations, is relatively small, and easy to find because its brightest star, Vega (Alpha Lyrae), is the the second brightest star in the northern sky, slightly dimmer only than Arcturus.

History and Science: First catalogued by the astronomer Ptolemy in the 2nd century. Lyra is home to two variable eclipsing stars, Beta Lyrae and RR Lyrae, which are so close together that they exchange mass. These binary stars sometimes appear as one star as they rotate around each other. Beta and RR already have names, but many other binary stars exist that make perfect anniversary or romantic gifts at Name a Star.

The area corresponding to Lyra was seen by the Arabs as a vulture or an eagle diving with folded wings. In Wales, Lyra is known as King Arthur’s Harp (Talyn Arthur), and King David’s harp. The Persian Hafiz called it the Lyre of Zurah. It has been called the Manger of the Infant Saviour, Praesepe Salvatoris. In Australian Aboriginal astronomy, Lyra is known by the Boorong people in Victoria as the Malleefowl constellation. Lyra was known as Urcuchillay by the Incas and was worshipped as an animal deity.

Fathers Day Skywatchers Gift Guide 2022

Looking for a unique Father’s Day gift that gets Dad outside? Check out the ideas below for the stargazing dad from beginner to advanced.

father-son-telescopeWould dad like to get a closer look at the stars without becoming an astronaut? You could start him out with a good pair of binoculars. If dad is ready for a telescope, don’t waste your money on one that is difficult to assemble or too complicated. Here is a list of quality telescopes ranging from $100 to $2,000.

Don’t be confused by terms like focal length, aperture, reflector, and refractor. A reflector telescope uses mirrors and a refractor telescope uses lenses. A Catadioptric telescope combines the best of all of these features.

There are even travel telescopes, so dad can take it with him. They are lightweight, compact, and easy to set up. If you live in an apartment or space is at a premium, then this may be the best choice for dad.

We are talking about Father’s Day, so let’s get the kids involved. Dad and the kids can have hours of fun with the book 50 Things To See With A Telescope. You could also plan a fun group activity, like learning why the moon has craters. Make a dough out of flour and oil, then drop pebbles on this “moon surface” to see what kind of craters they make.

If dad has all of the gear he needs, then take him on a dark sky vacation. One of the newest dark sky locations is in Name a Star’s backyard at Prineville Reservoir. Whether it is a visit to your back yard or a trip to Oregon, get outside to enjoy the night sky.

If you really want to send dad into space, name a star after him. Name a Star offers a variety of Fathers Day gifts. You can even put a special message on his certificate of registration letting him know what a special dad his is.

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Women Astronomers Part 3

Who discovered the most comets, identified the universe’s most common substance, and started the scientific search for extraterrestrial aliens? Women astronomers. Learn their stories.

Women make up only 15% of today’s astronomers, yet they have made some of our most important astronomical discoveries. Let’s hear the stories of three of those amazing women in Part 3 of the Name a Star series on female astronomers.

In the early 1970s, Vera Rubin was part of a team studying the rotation of spiral galaxies. To their surprise, they found that galaxies were rotating so fast that predictions showed they should break apart if the only thing holding them together was the gravity from their visible stars. Rubin and her collaborators hypothesized that some invisible glue — an unseen mass — must be at work. The group’s groundbreaking work provided the first direct evidence of the existence of invisible dark matter, that mysterious stuff that makes up most of the universe but gives off no energy or light.

Jill Tarter Led NASA’s Search For Extra Terrestrial Intelligence

 Jill Tarter led the search for extraterrestrial life using radio astronomy. Tarter is the co-creator and former director of the Center for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). This nonprofit continues its search and education activities despite Congress refusing to fund this NASA project since 1993.

Famous astronomer and author Carl Sagan based the main character, Ellie Arroway, in his fictional novel, Contact, on Tarter. Jodie Foster played the role in the movie “Contact”.

Carolyn Shoemaker discovered more asteroids (500) and comets (32) than any other astronomer. She became famous in 1993 when she co-discovered Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with her husband Eugene and fellow astronomer David Levy. The comet was orbiting Jupiter in pieces. The next year, its 21 fragments smashed into Jupiter, wowing astronomers everywhere with a spectacular once-in-a-lifetime show.

Before the Jupiter impacts, a reporter asked her what would happen if all the comet’s fragments were to hit Earth instead. “We would all die,” she answered. The interviewer explained that this was for a children’s program, then posed the question again. Carolyn’s second answer: “We would all be very uncomfortable.”

Honor the woman in your life, by naming a star for her for Mothers Day.

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Women In Astronomy Part 2

In our first Name a Star blog on women in astronomy, we discovered that a group of women did most of the work on the star catalog for which Edward Pickering got credit. Learn how brilliant hard working women advanced the science of astronomy.

Early Woman Astronomer

In 1881 a team of women at the Harvard Observatory called “computers”, helped photograph and catalog the entire night sky to produce the Henry Draper Catalogue. These women painstakingly performed complex calculations needed to process data from those images. Why was it called the Henry Draper Catalogue? Because the widow of astronomer Henry Draper funded the project to honor her husband and support the women scientists.

In our previous blog, we had fun with the fact that Williamina Fleming, the leader of the women scientists, started out as astronomer Charles Pickering’s housekeeper. However, many of the women on the team were graduates of Harvard affiliated Radcliffe College and scientists in their own right. Antonia Maury helped locate the first double star. Henrietta Leavitt developed a law to determine stellar distances. The most famous of the Harvard computers was Annie Jump Cannon. An expert in astrophotography, she cataloged over 350,000 stars and developed the classification system used today.

Another Radcliffe College graduate, Canadian Helen Sawyer Hogg, is best remembered for researching variable stars in globular clusters and for a long-standing astronomy column she had in the Toronto Star between 1951 and 1981.

Nancy Grace Roman was the first chief of astronomy in the Office of Space Science at NASA Headquarters, and the first woman to hold an executive position at the space agency. Her managed projects include the world-famous Hubble Space Telescope, earning her the nickname, “Mother of Hubble.”

Jocelyn Bell Burnell was part of a team that discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967. Eventually, researchers figured out that radio pulsars are coming from swiftly rotating neutron stars, which are the cosmic leftovers of huge stars that exploded in supernovas. Pulsars have been used for numerous types of studies in the decades since, including testing Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Bell Burnell never received Nobel credit for her work, although other male team members did.

Once again women did the work and men got the credit. Have any women received the Nobel Prize for Astronomy/Astrophysics? Andrea Ghez, a professor of physics and astronomy at UCLA, shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in physics for finding a supermassive black hole stuffed with 4 million suns at the center of our galaxy. Among the four female Nobel Laureates in physics to date, Ghez is the only astronomer. Her award is a pinnacle for women in astronomy and astrophysics.

You may not be able to award a Noble Prize, but you can award a friend of loved one their own star at Name a Star. Check it out.

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Female Astronomers Who Made The Discoveries, While Men Got The Credit

In honor of Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first black female Supreme Court Justice, Name a Star is pleased to shine a light on women pioneers in astronomy. Learn their hidden stories.

Most would agree that Hypatia of Alexandria was the first female astronomer. Hypatia wrote explanatory notes for Almagest, an astronomical treatise by Ptolemy, the most influential Greek astronomer of his time. Hypatia was brutally murdered in 415 C.E. by a fanatical sect of monks who felt threatened by her level of knowledge and the encouragement for learning that Hypatia had inspired.

We have to fast forward to the 18th century to find our next set of female astronomers. In 1740 Émilie du Châtelet wrote Institutions de Physique to present Newton’s planetary movement theory in French. Du Châtelet updated Newton’s theory by replacing Newton’s geometric methods with the powerful new tool of calculus.

Caroline Herschel discovered a comet and a nebula, plus contributed over 500 stars to the Flamsteed star catalog. She spent most of her career toiling in her brother William’s shadow, however in 1787, King George III gave her official employment as William’s assistant, granting her a modest salary. She was also the first woman to receive honorary membership with Britain’s prestigious Royal Society.

An interesting group of women who advanced astronomy are those who worked with Edward Charles Pickering at Harvard Observatory. Pickering’s approach toward astronomic techniques was examining photographs, rather than taking notes while staring for hours through a telescope.

Pickering’s Harem

In 1881, Pickering had a problem, these photographs created massive amounts of data. Pickering’s assistant was inefficient at cataloging the stars, so Pickering did what any scientist of the latter 19th century would have done: he fired his male assistant and replaced him with his maid, Williamina Fleming. Fleming proved so adept at computing and copying that she would work at Harvard for 34 years–eventually managing a large staff of female assistants. These women, known as “computers”, revolutionized the science of astronomy.

Some of these women would produce significant work on their own. There stories will have to wait for another blog. The majority of the computers are remembered not individually but collectively, by the moniker Pickering’s Harem. The less-than-enlightened nickname reflects the status of women at a time when they were–with rare exception–expected to devote their energies to breeding and homemaking or to bettering their odds of attracting a husband.

The work of Williamina Fleming and her assistants resulted in the Henry Draper Catalogue. Like most star catalogs each star has a unique star number, but remains unnamed until Name a Star helps its customers name those stars in honor of a friend or loved one.

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Constellation Hydra The Water Snake

Learn how Hercules defeated Hydra the multi headed Water Snake, which grew two new heads every time he cut one off. Find out more about the 88 constellations at Name a Star.

 Symbolism: Hydra the Water Snake, the largest constellation in the night sky.

Mythology: The oldest stories come from Hindu and Chinese mythology referring to dragons. Stories better known in the west come from ancient Greece describing a mythological hybrid of serpent, lion and bird. One myth associates Hydra with a crow that is sent by Apollo to fetch a cup of water. The crow stops to feast on figs instead of collecting water. The crow arrives with a water snake in a cup and no water, then blames the snake. Apollo saw through the fraud and angrily cast the crow, cup, and snake, into the sky. (Corvus, Crater, and Hydra).

In a more exciting myth, the multi headed monster Hydra grows two new heads every time Hercules cuts one off. Hercules enlists his nephew, Iolaus, to sear the necks with a torch to prevent them from growing back. This enabled Hercules to overcome the Hydra and trap it under a rock.

When is it visible?  Best seen from the southern hemisphere, but can be observed in the north between January and May.

How to find it? Hydra spreads across the sky from horizon to horizon in the south.

History:  A similar constellation dates to the Babylonian star catalogs that list two serpent related constellations. Hindu Mythology and Chinese Astronomy mention equivalent constellations associated with dragons. The Hydra constellation recognized today was first catalogued by the Greek astronomer Ptolemy in the 2nd century. Hydra is one of the 15 equatorial constellations. It contains seven stars named by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), which leaves all of the rest of the Hydra constellation stars to be named as gifts at Name a Star.

Are Satellites Interfering With Stargazing?

Who Owns The Night Sky?

A couple of years ago, an astronomer friend of mine invited the staff of Name a Star to watch a satellite train. Most stargazers have observed satellites, especially the largest satellite, the International Space Station, but what you may ask is a satellite train? Several companies are in the process of launching rocket ships that deploy multiple satellites at once. When the satellites are first released, they streak across the sky in a line before spreading out to their intended orbits.

Photo Credit: Stanislav Kaniansky, koza/Satellite Streak Watcher/CC-BY 4.0

On the night 2 years ago when I saw my first satellite train, there were 60 satellites chasing each other across the sky. It was a spectacular sight and felt like a major astronomical event. As we watched, my astronomer friend shared with me that scientists and amateur astronomers were worried that these satellites could destroy our beautiful night skies and ruin astronomy. I wondered, who owns the night sky and what is going on with satellite technology?

The satellites that I observed are part of Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starlink program. The purpose of Starlink and other similar programs is to bring internet and connectivity to the globe, especially rural and disadvantaged populations that lack the access that is becoming a critical part of education, health care, and commerce. Unfortunately, as Dr. James Lowenthal, professor and chair of astronomy, Smith College, North Hampton, said on Science Friday “They’re big, and they’re bright”. The satellites show up as bright streaks of light that distort images of far-away galaxies. There’s a wealth of issues in addition to science– the sky traditions of people around the world, cultural practices, and stargazer’s right to enjoy the stars.

How big is this problem? SpaceX plans an initial “constellation” of 1,548 Starlinks, but ultimately it aims to fill out a network with as many as 42,000 satellites. In addition to SpaceX, OneWeb plans to put 6,372 satellites in the sky and Amazon’s Project Kuiper plans for 6,236 satellites. There could be 100,000 of these communications satellites 10 years from now.

Back to who owns the night sky? In the United States the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulates communications satellites and all of these organizations are licensed. The American Astronomical Society and the United Nations have recommended that satellite brightness be limited to magnitude 7. These are recommendations, not laws, so apparently no one owns the night sky.

To SpaceX’s credit, they are attempting to address astronomers’ concerns. First, they painted the satellites black, but they overheated. Next, they tried a sunshade, a visor-like appendage (VisorSat) that reduces the sunlight reflected to observers on the ground. This worked and studies have shown that the brightness has been reduced by two-thirds to an average magnitude of 6. SpaceX continues to experiment. For example, the satellites, which are flat, can be adjusted in orbit, so only a knife edge faces earth.

Let’s hope the stars remain visible, so you can name a star for a friend or loved one, who can look up in appreciation.

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Valentines Day Stars

Learn About The Stormy Relationship Of Double Stars That Sometimes Explode In A Super Nova

Mixed-up Double Star Has Unusual Orbit Courtesy of University of Warwick/Mark Garlick

Did you know there are double stars in the sky that are bound so tightly together that they have the same celestial address? Naming a double star makes a great gift, especially for Valentine’s Day. Let’s learn more about these astronomical phenomena.

Scientists divide double stars into two types, visual binaries and optical doubles.  Binary stars are bound gravitationally sharing the same orbit. Optical doubles appear to be close, but are actually a chance line-of-sight alignment of two stars at different distances from the observer.

Double stars are so important, they even have their own star catalog, the Washington Double Star Catalog. It was first published by the Lick Observatory in 1963 and is now maintained by the United States Naval Observatory. Each double star only has one entry because they appear so close together.

In 1617, at the request of a fellow scientist, Galileo Galilei turned his telescope toward the second star from the end of the handle of the Big Dipper, discovering that one star seemed to be two. It took nearly 200 more years before Sir William Herschel, first used the term “binary” in reference to these double stars in 1802.

Some double stars are so close together that they exchange material. As their relationship continues, one star may capture the other causing them to merge into a single star. Other double stars don’t get along. One member of the pair can explode in a super nova that obliterates its partner. Most double stars appear to have stable relationships and stay together as they rotate around each other.

Naming two stars that are bound together for all eternity is the perfect way for couples, lovers, sisters, and brothers to show their love.

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Memorials Stars

Memorials Come In Many Forms Including The Taj Mahal, A Local Park Bench, And Your Grandfather’s Gravestone

Since we just celebrated Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, let’s discuss how we memorialize special people. Memorials come in many forms including granite soldiers, towering obelisks, historic buildings, roadside crucifixes, memorial bridges, stars in the sky, and no end of scattered mementos. Some of them were left by ancestors for reasons that may be obscured by time.

Webster defines memorial as something that keeps remembrance alive or commemorates. Memorials are an important part of every culture. They allow people to remember a deceased loved one or an important public figure. Memorials have existed in every culture for thousands of years. For examples the Taj Mahal, Lincoln Memorial, the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial, and the Great Pyramids were created in the loving memory of great leaders and unforgotten heroes. It is only due to memorials that even today we are able to remember the people who were important in our lives, from Parents to Presidents and show our respect to them.

The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial was unveiled in 2011 and was the first memorial of this kind to honor an African-American leader. The design of the monument was inspired by King’s words, “Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.” It’s located in downtown D.C. and represents the struggle for equality, freedom, and justice.

Martin Luther King Memorial

The Taj Mahal was commissioned in 1632 by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan to house the tomb of his wife, Mumtaz Mahal. It also houses the tomb of Shah Jahan himself. Construction took over 20 years and cost the modern day equivalent of U.S. $1 billion. The construction project employed some 20,000 artisans under the guidance of a board of architects led by the court architect to the emperor.

Crosses are the principal symbol of the Christian religion, recalling the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ and the redeeming benefits of his Passion and death. The cross is thus a sign both of Christ himself and of the faith of Christians.

Have you or a friend lost a loved one and you want a way to commemorate them? A fast and easy way to remember a special friend or loved one is to name a memorial star after them. Any time you miss them, just glance to the sky and know that they are watching over you.  This also makes a great gift for those around you who may be hurting. You can even remember a furry friend with a pet memorial.

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Constellation Taurus The Bull Known For Over 15,000 Years

Symbolism: Bull. It has been associated with the bull in many cultures and mythologies: Greek and Egyptian among others, and even going back to Ancient Babylon.

 Mythology: Taurus is the second sign in the zodiac and represents those born from April 20 to May 20. In Greek mythology, Taurus is usually associated with Zeus, who adopted the shape of a bull in order to seduce and abduct Europa, the beautiful daughter of the Phoenician King Agenor. Zeus mingled with the king’s herd and, being the most handsome bull there, he got Europa’s attention. The princess admired the bull and, when she sat on his back, he rose and headed for the sea. Zeus carried Europa all the way to the island of Crete, where he revealed his true identity and lavished the princess with presents.

Gilgamesh Faces The Bull

In the Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the earliest literary works from Mesopotamia, Gilgamesh faces the Bull of Heaven sent by the goddess Ishtar to defeat the hero after he had rejected her advances.

When is it visible? The bull passes through the sky from November to March, but the constellation is at its most visible in January.

 How to find it? Look to the south, find Orion, his belt points to Taurus.

History:  One of the oldest constellations. First catalogued by the Greek astronomer Ptolemy in the 2nd century, but has been known since the Bronze Age. Michael Rappenglück of the University of Munich believes that Taurus is represented in a cave painting at the Hall of the Bulls in the caves at Lascaux dated to roughly 15,000 BC. Taurus contains the Crab Nebula, which is an expanding remnant of a supernova event observed in 1054 AD by Japanese and Chinese astronomers and most likely Native Americans.

You can give a star to a friend or loved one in the constellation Taurus at Name a Star.


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Plea for public hanging of Zainab’s killer dismissed

Shahzad Ahmad

LAHORE – The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday dismissed a petition filed by Zainab’s father seeking public hanging of the rapist-killer of his seven-year-old daughter.

Imran’s execution is scheduled for Wednesday (today) in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat Jail and all arrangements for the purpose were completed yesterday.

Headed by Justice Sardar Ahmed Shamim, a two-member LHC Bench dismissed Zainab’s father Amin Ansari’s plea made under Section 22 of the Anti-Terrorism Act 1997.

The Bench said that only the government could take such a decision. Justice Shamim said: “We are not the government.”

He asked whether the petitioner had submitted a request to the government. Amin’s lawyer answered in the positive, adding the government had not taken any action on the request. “You have come here so late. The date of the hanging has been fixed for Wednesday,” said the Bench.

The petitioner also requested the court to allow a live telecast of the hanging inside the jail. He said that he was ready to even bear the expenses if the court allows a camera inside Kot Lakhpat Jail.

Over two dozen relatives of death-row prisoner Imran Ali visited the Kot Lakhpat jail on Tuesday for the final meeting that lasted for a few hours.

Imran Ali will be hanged to death in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail before dawn on Wednesday (today).

According to jail authorities, at least 28 family members visited the prison cell to have final meeting with the condemned prisoner. The family included mother, grandmother, brothers and sisters of Imran Ali. The jail superintendent was also present on this occasion.

Earlier, the jail superintendent had written a letter to Imran’s family according to the jail rules and the final meeting between the family and the condemned prisoner was scheduled for Tuesday at twelve noon inside the jail.

The family members were asked by the jail authorities to bring their ID cards with them and maximum 50 people would be allowed to meet Imran Ali.

The dead body will be handed over to the family on Wednesday (today) morning at 05:30am. The family will provide ambulance, clothes, and a bed sheet to the jail staff for transportation of the dead body.

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Image: Lotus seedpods found to protect the liver from inflammation

(Natural News) Nelumbro nucifera, more commonly known as the lotus plant, is a well-known source of food and medicine in Asia. While its roots are considered a vegetable in Japan, its petals are used to flavor dishes and to make herbal teas in China. The seeds of the lotus plant also serve different purposes. Not only are lotus seeds considered a nutritious snack, they are also highly valued in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) for their ability to relieve digestive problems, reinforce the kidneys and nourish the blood.

In a recent study, which appeared in The American Journal of Chinese Medicine, researchers from Chung Shan Medical University in Taiwan examined the anti-inflammatory effects of lotus seedpod extract (LSE) on lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced hepatic inflammation. LPS, also called endotoxin, is a large molecule found on the outer membrane of gram-negative bacteria. LPS protects bacterial cells from their host’s defenses while simultaneously triggering the release of pro-inflammatory molecules. The researchers found that LSE can prevent this from happening and protect the liver from damage caused by inflammation.

Lotus seeds are rich in antioxidants that can confer protection against inflammation

LPS is known for its role in accelerating liver inflammation. While acute (short-term) inflammation is part of the body’s immune response, chronic (long-term) inflammation is linked to the development of serious conditions like heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease and cancer. In a bid to find more effective ways to prevent these diseases, scientists continue to study medicinal plants that can inhibit inflammation. In particular, those with components that target LPS have attracted interest due to their potential therapeutic and clinical applications.

Extracts from the traditional Chinese herbal medicine lotus seeds have long been used to induce hemostasis and eliminate bruises. To examine its anti-inflammatory effects, the researchers treated LPS-stimulated human hepatoma (HepG2) cells with LSE and a compound purified from LSE called (-)-epigallocatechin (EGC). EGC is a plant metabolite and food component that is known for its antioxidant activity. It is found in almonds, beans and in black and green tea.

The researchers reported that both LSE and EGC dose-dependently inhibited the expression of pro-inflammatory cytokines and mediators without affecting cell viability. These included tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-a, interleukin (IL)-6, cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) and inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS). Molecular studies also revealed that the anti-LPS effect of EGC can be mediated via down-regulation of Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4). TLR4 mediates both NF-kB and p38 signaling. NF-kB induces the expression of pro-inflammatory genes while the activation of p38 signaling contributes to cell cycle regulation, cell differentiation, programmed cell death (apoptosis) and inflammation.

Meanwhile, in vivo, the researchers found that LSE significantly ameliorated LPS-induced hepatic inflammation in LSE-treated mice. LSE also dose-dependently reduced serum levels of biochemical markers of liver damage and inhibited various processes, such as changes in hepatic lobular architecture, the secretion of pro-inflammatory mediators and the induction of antioxidant enzymes.

Based on these results, the researchers concluded that EGC-enriched LSE is an anti-inflammatory agent that can be used for the treatment of hepatic inflammation.

Health benefits of lotus seeds

The lotus plant is an aquatic plant that also goes by the name of water lily. It is native to Southeast Asia and is widely known for its ornamental flowers and edible seeds. Lotus seeds are rich in nutrients, such as fiber, protein, magnesium, zinc, niacin, riboflavin and pantothenic acid (vitamin B5). In TCM, they are used to improve the appetite, relieve palpitations and treat a variety of conditions, such as insomnia, irritability and diarrhea, among others.

According to several studies, lotus seeds offer plenty of health benefits, including:

  • Lowering blood sugar levels
  • Promoting sound sleep
  • Strengthening the digestive system
  • Preventing premature aging (boosts collagen production)
  • Preventing gum disease
  • Boosting energy levels
  • Restoring lost appetite
  • Treating urinary tract infections
  • Maintaining healthy blood pressure
  • Accelerating wound healing

Enjoy the anti-inflammatory properties of nutrient-rich lotus seeds by adding them to your regular diet. These seeds are rich in protein and fiber that can help curb your appetite and help you maintain a healthy weight.

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Slason/Slauson Thompson (journalist, playwright, drama critic, railway advertising man) was born on 5 January 1849 in Fredericton, NB. His father, George Thompson, was born in Kingsclear, NB, and his mother, Charity, in Fredericton. George and Charity were married in 1843. Shortly after their son’s birth in 1849, they moved to an abandoned farm near Andover, NB, hoping to continue the Thompson family tradition of farming; however, Charity, a city girl, found the move and the lifestyle hard, so they returned to Fredericton in 1852 (Thompson, Way Back When 29).

Slason and his three sisters grew up in the capital in a lower middle-class household. His father tried numerous jobs, including owning a grocery store, but ended up in debt (Thompson, Way Back When 34). From Thompson’s descriptions of his childhood, it is clear that his parents struggled. By 1860 Thompson was enrolled in a local school, excelling in math and writing. In his autobiography, he recalls winning first prize in 1864 for an essay he wrote about the Civil War (Thompson, Way Back When 69). His precocious interest in world affairs and his parents’ encouragement of family discussions about current events no doubt contributed to his later career as a journalist.

Thompson’s father wanted him to study law, so at sixteen he took a matriculation exam, shortly after receiving his first job as a student in the law office of George Botsford. Botsford was involved in New Brunswick politics and was president of a local bank (Thompson, Way Back When 85). Thompson was especially taken with two books Botsford owned: one on health and the other William Shakespeare's Hamlet. Thompson read Hamlet until he memorized most of its passages, adding variety by doing the same with Botsford’s book on health. When he was not working, he kept in shape by playing sports, obsessions that were attributable, he said, to Botsford’s small library.

When local sports exhausted their appeal, he moved to California (1873), where he got a job at the Fox and Campbell law firm (Thompson, Way Back When 120). On his way there, he met Lewis Morrison who introduced him to theater. He developed such an interest that he got a part-time job with the Era newspaper, where he reviewed plays. He soon partnered with another stage enthusiast (Clay M. Greene) to write plays. Sharps and Flats (1880) and Chispa (1882) were co-authored by Thompson.

After Thompson’s apprenticeship at the Era, he worked at more prestigious west-coast papers, such as The Morning Call, The Chronicle, and The Argonaut. Those terms finished, he left California in 1878 for more prominent newspapers in New York, namely The New York Times. Thompson was a traveller, however, and could not stay in one place long; he soon left for Cincinnati, then Chicago, where he worked at the newly established Chicago Herald (Thompson, Way Back When 207-43). He worked there with four other journalists—James W. Scott, William D. Eaton, John F. Ballantyne, and David H. Henderson—calling their enterprise “the best four-page newspaper ever printed in America” (Thompson, Way Back When 248).

When the Herald split into two daily runs, Thompson went to the Morning News, working in close proximity with Eugene Field, a man who would become one of the most influential people in his life. Field was a writer of children’s poetry and humourous essays, and a leading journalist in his own right. Thompson would eventually write two books about Field: The Study of Eugene Field (1901) and The Life of Eugene Field (1926). Both books were modest contributions to the study of American letters.

It was also at this time that Thompson married Julia Watson from Chicago, who became the mother of his three daughters. The responsibilities of family life shifted his focus from journalism to something more secure, and he became a railway executive (a sort of early PR man), writing books on the railways: Cost Capitalization and Estimated Value of American Railways (1925), The Railway Library (1915), and Railway Statistics (1930). Critics considered these to be the best works of his career, noting their style and readability. One said that “Thompson gives full credit to all records which have been consulted in collecting the material for his book” (The Boston Transcript 2), another that “For both reference and good reading the book is well worth having” (Engineering News 2). One critic went as far as saying that “[Thompson’s work] deserves a place in every school library” (Historical Outlook 40). The observation that Thompson “has both critical judgment and good taste” (New York Times 12) seems the most accurate and balanced statement on his work.

When Thompson turned eighty, he wrote Way Back When: Recollections of an Octogenarian (1931), an autobiographical summation of his life. He died a few years later in 1935 in Chicago, a New Brunswick-born writer who was close to the centres of journalistic power in North America.

Britanny Douthwright, Winter 2010
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Bibliography of Primary Sources

Thompson, Slason. Cost Capitalization and Estimated Value of American Railways: An Analysis of Current Fallacies. Chicago: Gunthrop-Warren, 1908.

---. Eugene Field: A Study in Heredity and Contradictions. New York: Scribner’s Sons, 1901.

---, ed. The Humbler Poets: A Collection of Newspaper and Periodical Verse, 18701885. Chicago: Jansen McClurg, 1886.

---. Life of Eugene Field: The Poet of Childhood. New York: D. Appleton, 1927.

---. Passenger Fares on American Railways: Also on Those of Great Britain and Germany. Chicago: Gunthrop-Warren, 1906.

---. Railway Accidents in the United States and Europe and Prevention of Railway Accidents. Bureau of Railway News Bulletin 1. Chicago: The H.O. Shepherd Co., 1904.

---, ed. The Railway Library: Annual Collection of Railway Literature, and Railway Statistics: Annual Reports. Chicago: Gunthorp-Warren, 1911-16.

---. Railway Pamphlets and Leaflets 19041909. Chicago: Gunthrop-Warren, 1909.

---. A Short History of American Railways. Chicago: Bureau of Railway News and Statistics, 1925.

---. Way Back When: Recollections of an Octogenarian. Chicago: A. Kroch, 1931.

Bibliography of Secondary Sources

Gregory, Hilton. Rev. of Life of Eugene Field: The Poet of Childhood, by Slason Thompson. Bookman 65 (Mar. 1927): 89.

Mount, Nick. When Canadian Literature Moved to New York. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2005.

“Mrs. Field and Slason Thompson’s Book,” The New York Times 8 Feb. 1902: BR6. 24 June 2020

“Newspaper Poets,” The New York Times 14 Mar. 1886: 12. 24 June 2020

Rev. of Short History of American Railways, Covering Ten Decades, by Slason Thompson. The Boston Transcript 25 July 1925: 2.

Rev. of Short History of American Railways, Covering Ten Decades, by Slason Thompson. Engineering News 15 Oct. 1925: 2.

Rev. of Short History of American Railways, Covering Ten Decades, by Slason Thompson. Historical Outlook 17 (Jan. 1926): 40.

Thompson, C.W. Rev. of Life of Eugene Field: The Poet of Childhood, by Slason Thompson. The New York Times 20 Feb. 1927: 2. 24 June 2020


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Description of MeasureIncidence of treated end-stage renal disease (stage 5) in children & adolescents
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Demographic GroupMedicare-eligible U.S. citizens <22 years old with ESRD-related claims with known age, race/ethnicity, and gender
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Frequency of Measurement (Primary)Annual (cross-sectional)
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Limitations of IndicatorOnly those who are Medicare-eligible are captured and eligibility may be delayed; changes in 2728 form
Analytic ConsiderationsDenominators change with missing stratification variables
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The production of sequels for many successful movies is becoming quite a trend in movie industries across the globe. It is usually expected that a movie that did so well at the box office, as well as had a positive reception amongst fan and critics alike should have a sequel to continue in its previous success path. Glass, a psychological fiction film released in 2019 is also a sequel as it was intended to be the final part of the Unbreakable trilogy. The American film was directed and written by famous filmmaker Manoj Nelliyattu Shyalaman, popularly known as M. Night Shyalaman.

Is Glass A Sequel To Split?

The superhero drama is actually a sequel to the first two installments of the Unbreakable series – Unbreakable released in 2000 and Split which came out in 2016. The movies featured the likes of many notable Hollywood stars, some of which include , Spencer Treat Clark, Charlayne Woodard, , , , and .

Moreso, Glass has had an overwhelming year so far at the box office, grossing a massive $247 million on a $20 million budget. This was achieved despite negative criticisms and reviews from critics globally. The writer of the movie used a character from the first installment in the trilogy to form the basis for the second installment which was titled Split. Universal Pictures was responsible for the distribution of Glass domestically in the United States of America and in Canada, while Buena Vista International, a label under Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, took charge over the film’s distribution across the globe.

It would also interest you to know that in 2017, after the premiere of Split, Shyalaman revealed that the movie was a sequel to the first part released in 2000 titled Unbreakable. Moreso, most of what formed the plot of Split came from the 2000 film. Following the success recorded by Split, it was decided that a sequel would be produced to build on the gains and further tell the well-written story of the Unbreakable series. It is quite obvious that the storyline of Glass, as well as its plot, has a lot of similarities to the first two films in the series.

What Is The Connection  Between Glass And Unbreakable?

The American superhero film, Unbreakable, is the first film under the Unbreakable trilogy which was released in the year 2000. In the film, David Dunn which was portrayed by Bruce Willis suddenly develops some superpowers after he survived a train accident. The crash is known to have been planned and executed by another character named Elijah Price otherwise known as Mr. Glass. The latter is the supervillain of the movie while David Dunn is the film’s superhero.

In the follow-up sequel, Split, three young girls are abducted by a certain unknown man with 24 different personalities. The identity of the man was later revealed as Kevin Wendell Crumb. Later on, Glass brings all the three main characters from the previous two films into one film. The trio of David Dunn, Elijah Price, and Kevin Crumb are all admitted into a mental facility in a bid to cure their superhero fantasies. A fight ensues between all three of them in a bid to prove to the entire world that their supposed delusions were actually a reality.

Glass abruptly ends with Price, Dunn, and Crumb killed by a secret group with a mission to eliminate all persons with superpowers, irrespective of whatever sides they are on. The cabal tasked with the objective was headed by a certain Dr. Ellie Staple which was portrayed by popular American actress, Sarah Paulson.

Another connection that Unbreakable has with Glass is that the colors associated with the three different characters are maintained throughout the film. David Dunn is known to favor the color green; Elijah Price has a flair for purple while Kevin Crumbs is known to wear a yellow color whenever he changes into his beast form. Dr. Staple, all through the duration of Glass was known to favor pink.

Furthermore, many followers of the Unbreakable series may or may not know this but Shyalaman, the writer and director of all three films, actually featured as an actor in all of them. He appears as one of the first victims of Dunn in the first film then he was seen as a landlord in both Split and Glass.

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For God’s sake, people, stay away from Uganda, despite its being the backdrop for “The Book of Mormon.” Massive anti-gay legislation was signed there this past week that could lead to imprisonment, torture, night raids, and all sorts of other nasty things. Give your tourism dollars to South Africa, which was ahead of the curve on gay rights decades ago as part of their dismantling of the apartheid system.

Arizona governor Jan Brewer has till the end of the week to sign the “religious exemption” legislation that reached her desk. Ostensibly designed to protect 1st Amendment religious freedom rights, it could lead to a new round of LGBT discrimination and/or ostracization. Even legislators who were previously on board with it are now having second thoughts, and Senator John McCain has weighed in as being opposed. My friends and family members in Arizona must be on pins and needles right now—even the Republicans. (Arizona also once refused to recognize Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, a decision that cost them the Superbowl a few years back.)

Jason Collins, openly gay NBA basketball player, played for the Nets against the Clippers last night. No word on whether or not any freeballin’ was involved. (Between Collins and Michael Sam, isn’t it nice to have such high-profile gay athletes of color in the news?)

11-year-old Bronie enthusiast Michael Marones was upgraded to “stable” in North Carolina this weekend and is breathing without a respirator for longer and longer periods of time. If you have a few extra dollars to help donate to his recovery fund (he may need a special wheelchair depending on if there is brain damage) that would be a great gesture. Consider downgrading your designer coffee drink of choice one size for Lent and send his family’s fund the difference.

I'm glad you mentioned Brent Corrigan, Dback, so I could print this photo!

Brent Corrigan made an announcement that he is returning to the, umm… “industry” that made him famous. Corrigan, aka in real life as Sean Paul Lockhart, proved himself a charming and charismatic actor in “Judas Kiss,” and was the only redeeming thing in “Another Gay Sequel,” playing Stan the Merman. Here’s hoping he continues to have opportunities to display all his…talents.

From our “living well is the best revenge” department: openly bi Dutch athlete Ireen Wüst picked up 5 medals—two gold, three silver—at the Sochi games in speed skating. Boo-ya! (Does anyone still say this? If not, I think it needs a comeback.)

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Amazon put out a very subjective list of their Top 100 books to read in a lifetime. On the plus side, LGBT authors and subjects were represented by, among other titles, “Me Talk Pretty One Day,” “Middlesex,” “On the Road,” and “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.” However, any list that has room for “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” at the expense of “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” and “Peter Pan” is somewhat suspect in my eyes.

The gay-straight friendship comedy “Date And Switch” is currently in select theaters, and has a 60% (Fresh!) audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Get out and see it, or if it’s available via VOD, rent it!

The All-Blacks, a New Zealand rugby team, did an underwear layout and shoot this week, and, yes, there’s video—and confirmation of God.

Special get-well wishes to major gay political mover and shaker/essayist/Former Friend Of Bill (Clinton)/blogger David Mixner, who had some health problems this week and had to be hospitalized. Mixner’s autobiography “Stranger Among Friends” is one of the best memoirs I’ve ever read by someone on the front lines of gay politics, with some truly harrowing details. (One chapter involving the disappearance of a seemingly “perfect” guy Mixner dated for a few months in his youth will give you the willies.) Here’s a prayer for a speedy recovery and hope that he sticks around awhile, despite his graceful note written from the hospital that he’s “ready to go.” I want him to live long enough to see marriage equality in the majority of the states.

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The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has announced that the 2007 Roy Family Award for Environmental Partnership will go to the Hybrid Systems for Rural Electrification in Africa (HSREA). The HSREA project provides reliable, renewable electricity to rural African villages through a system of solar panel technology combined with modified diesel motors running on pure plant oil from the jatropha nut.

The award is given biannually to celebrate an outstanding partnership project that enhances environmental quality through the use of novel and creative approaches. It will be presented to the recipients this spring.

The HSREA project is a public-private partnership between Energiebau Solarstromsysteme, a German solar technology provider with international expertise, and InWEnt-Capacity Building International, Germany, a nonprofit organization with expertise in human resources development and dialogue facilitation.

“Providing sustainable energy to people living in rural Africa is of critical importance to reducing world poverty and improving the quality of life for millions of men, women, and children,” said Henry Lee, director of KSG’s Environment and Natural Resources Program, in announcing the 2007 award winner.

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Theoretical astrophysicist Avi Loeb has a pretty good idea about how the universe’s first galaxies formed, but he can’t wait to see if his theories are right.

Loeb, chair of the Harvard Astronomy Department and the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science, said a new wave of telescopes expected to come online over the next decade will allow astronomers to look deeper into the universe — and thus farther back in time — than ever before.

That new data will test theories about how early stars and galaxies formed, Loeb said. And, he added, it won’t be the worst thing in the world if some of his own theories are proven wrong.

“I would be excited if that happens because it means we will have learned something new,” Loeb said. “Human imagination is limited and nature is full of surprises, so we should keep an open mind.”

Loeb is helping prepare the next generation of astronomers to interpret the coming flood of data with a new textbook, “The First Galaxies in the Universe,” introduced this month during an event at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). The book, written with Steven Furlanetto, a former Loeb grad student now at the University of California, Los Angeles, is a more technical follow-up to Loeb’s 2010 book, “How Did the First Stars and Galaxies Form?,” which just won the 2013 Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award from the American Astronomical Society.

“The next decade is likely to bring a flood of data,” said Loeb, who is also the director of the CfA’s Institute for Theory and Computation.

When Loeb arrived at Harvard in 1993, he was one of just a few people in the world thinking about the first stars. The field has since grown and matured, and was recently listed among astronomers’ top research priorities for the next decade.

“I started various aspects of this field from scratch,” Loeb said. “Generally speaking, it’s dealing with our cosmic roots.”

In an interview in his CfA office, Loeb described current thinking about the earliest stars and galaxies. The Big Bang got it all started some 13.7 billion years ago — an explosion of inconceivable violence resulting in a dense, opaque, high-energy soup too hot even for basic atoms to form. After about 400 thousand years, the rapidly expanding universe cooled enough that atoms — mainly hydrogen, the simplest atom — could form.

This early universe was almost but not completely uniform. There were tiny variations in density that allowed gravity to pull particles together until they assembled into a sufficiently compact cloud, ignited, and formed the first stars, much more massive and short-lived than our own sun. Galaxies came next, forming as the stars glowed within massive gas clouds.

The several generations of stars since created the heavier elements needed to build Earth — and human beings.

With today’s telescopes, astronomers can map just a small fraction of the universe, Loeb said. New projects like the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, and giant ground-based instruments, like the Giant Magellan Telescope (being built in a mountaintop in Chile), will allow astronomers to see much farther away and further back in time than ever before.

Loeb likened astrophysicists to archaeologists, because, as archaeologists go deeper into the past by digging deeper into Earth, astronomers can look deeper into the past by peering farther into the universe. That’s because the universe is so vast it takes light billions of years to cross it. The deeper into the universe a telescope can see, the longer ago that light left its celestial sources.

“To understand it, we have to go back in time,” Loeb said. “The farther we look, the earlier are the images we can see.”

Loeb said the second edition of the book will either be largely the same as the first, meaning current theories were validated by upcoming observations, or need revision. He hopes it needs at least some revision. It would be a boring universe, Loeb said, if all of today’s theories are true.

“It’s good that nature surprises us,” Loeb said. “Doing science is a learning experience.”


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Scientists elucidate the origin of the darkest galaxies in the universe

By Kelen Tuttle

Ghostly galaxies composed almost entirely of dark matter speckle the universe. Unlike normal galaxies, these extreme systems contain very few stars and are almost devoid of gas. Most of the luminous matter, so common in most galaxies, has been stripped away, leaving behind a dark matter shadow. These intriguing galaxiesknown as dwarf spheroidalsare so faint that, although researchers believe they exist throughout the universe, only those relatively close to Earth have ever been observed. And until recently, no scientific model proposed to unravel their origin could simultaneously explain their exceptional dark matter content and their penchant for existing only in close proximity to much larger galaxies.

Now, Stelios Kazantzidis, a researcher at Stanford University's Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), in collaboration with Lucio Mayer of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and the University of Zurich, Chiara Mastropietro of the University of Munich in Germany and James Wadsley of McMaster University in Canada, has developed an elegant explanation for how galaxies come to be dominated by dark matter. Kazantzidis, who completed part of the study as a fellow at the University of Chicago's Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, reports his findings in the Feb. 15 issue of Nature.

"These results are so exciting because they are based on a combination of physical effects that has never before been postulated," said Kazantzidis. "This is one step toward a more complete understanding of the formation of structure in the universe, which is one of the fundamental goals of astrophysics."

Using supercomputers to create novel simulations of galaxy formation, Kazantzidis and his collaborators found that a dark matter-dominated galaxy begins life as a normal system. But when it approaches a much more massive galaxy, it simultaneously encounters three environmental effects"ram pressure," "tidal shocking" and the cosmic ultraviolet backgroundthat transform it into a mere dark-matter shadow of its former self.

About 10 billion years ago, when the gas-rich progenitors of dark matter-dominated galaxies originally fell into the Milky Way, the universe was hot with a radiation called the cosmic ultraviolet background. As a small satellite galaxy traveled along its elliptical path around a more massive galaxy, called the host, this radiation made the gas within the smaller galaxy hotter. This state allowed ram pressurea sort of "wind resistance" a galaxy feels as it speeds along its pathto strip away the gas within the satellite galaxy.

Simultaneously, as the satellite galaxy moved closer to the massive system, it encountered the overwhelming gravitational force of the much larger mass. This force wrenched luminous stars from the small galaxy. Over billions of years of evolution, the satellite passed by the massive galaxy several times as it traversed its orbital path. Each time its stars shook and the satellite lost some of them as a result of a mechanism called tidal shocking. These effects conspired to eventually strip away nearly all the luminous mattergas and starsand left behind only a dark-matter shadow of the original galaxy.

The dark matter, on the other hand, was nongaseous and therefore unaffected by the ram pressure force or the cosmic ultraviolet background, the scientists posit. It did experience tidal shocking, but this force alone was not strong enough to pull away a substantial amount of dark matter.

The numerical simulations conducted by Kazantzidis and his collaborators constitute the most extensive calculations ever performed on this topic, consuming up to two months of supercomputing time each at the University of Zurich, the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and elsewhere.

"Computer models of galaxy formation in the last decade or so have focused on modeling the properties of dark matter rather than those of the more familiar baryonic [luminous] matter," said co-author Mayer. "Instead, our work suggests that we cannot understand the origin of galaxies without modeling the detailed physics of baryonic matter, even in a dark matter-dominated universe."

The scientists say this new understanding of the origin of the darkest galaxies in the universe may soon lead to fundamental insights into the nature of dark matter.

"Elucidating the nature of dark matter is one of the grandest challenges of modern cosmology," said Kazantzidis. "In the next several years, numerous experiments will attempt to detect dark matter using dwarf spheroidal galaxies as targets." Kazantzidis' work will benefit these studies by offering a better explanation of the origin of ghostly galaxies.

Mystery of the missing satellites

Additionally, the work may help to explain a long-standing discrepancy between theory and observation. The leading modern cosmological model, Lambda Cold Dark Matter (?CDM), predicts that many more small galaxies surround massive galaxies like the Milky Way and Andromeda than are currently observed. This mismatch, which is often referred to as the "missing satellites problem," has been traditionally regarded as one of the toughest challenges to the ?CDM paradigm. Kazantzidis' work suggests that the process by which small galaxies are stripped of their luminous matter is common, and implies that the "missing" galaxies could exist in the form of dark matter-dominated satellites.

"These galaxies could just be too dark to detect," he said. "But their possible existence will substantially alleviate the missing satellites problem with profound implications for the predictive power of the ?CDM theory." Coincidentally, in the last few months, one of the most advanced observational programs ever undertaken, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, has revealed in the vicinity of the Milky Way a number of what appear to be ultra-faint satellite galaxies. If this finding is confirmed by follow-up observations and analysis, these newly discovered systems would be explained by Kazantzidis' calculations and would contribute to solving the long-standing missing satellites problem, he says.

This research has been supported by the Zwicky Prize Fellowship program at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and by the U.S. Department of Energy through a KIPAC Fellowship at Stanford University and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. This project also was supported in its initial stages by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago.

Editor Note:

Please note that the Lambda Cold Dark Matter theory acronym, ?CDM, should begin with the Greek letter lambda, which may not come through in this document. Photos of Kazantzidis and the cosmos are available on the web at

Neil Calder, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center: (650) 926-8707,

Stelios Kazantzidis, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology: (650) 926-4786,

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Trump rattles off a dozen livid social-media posts in 2 hours as ex-aide gives explosive testimony to January 6 panel: 'A Total Phony!!!'

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  • Donald Trump raged on his social-media platform as Tuesday's January 6 hearing progressed.

  • Trump's posts were a return to form for the former president.

  • His response was in reaction to the former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony.

Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday unleashed a dozen social-media posts in the wake of the testimony of a former top White House aide before the January 6 committee, calling the staffer a "total phony" and "third rate social climber," as well as suggesting that she was a "whacko" because of her handwriting.

"There is no cross examination of this so-called witness. This is a Kangaroo Court!" Trump wrote on his social-media platform.

In another post, he said that her "body language is that of a total bull…. artist. Fantasy Land!"

Trump's response mirrors how he used Twitter during his presidency, particularly after he was publicly criticized, or news came out of special counsel Robert Mueller's probe. Trump was kicked off Twitter and Facebook in the wake of the January 6 Capitol riot, which led him and his allies to create their own platform.

As Fox News' Bret Baier said, Hutchinson made her claims under oath while Trump simply ranted online. It's a crime to lie to Congress, as Michael Cohen, a former Trump attorney, found out.

Trump has a well-documented, decades-long proclivity for stretching the truth or outright lying. One of his most debunked claims as president was that he passed legislation to improve veterans' healthcare when it was easily verifiable that President Barack Obama signed the bill into law. Trump made this claim more than 156 times, as The Washington Post meticulously documented.

Cassidy Hutchinson, who was a top aide for Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, told lawmakers that Trump, in a fit of desperation, tried to commandeer the presidential limousine in an effort to travel to the Capitol on January 6 while Congress certified his election loss.

Trump denied that he tried to hijack his own limo, calling it a "Fake story." He added that it was "also false" that on a different occasion he threw his food against a wall after becoming enraged by statements made by Attorney General Bill Barr. The former president used all caps to emphasize that he "NEVER SAID" that Vice President Mike Pence deserved to be hanged for not trying to overturn the election.

In another vintage Trump move, the former president repeatedly said that he hardly knew Hutchinson, despite the fact that she worked just steps away from the Oval Office and was a top aide to the White House chief of staff, a post that's considered to be among the most powerful in the entire federal government.

"I hardly know who this person, Cassidy Hutchinson, is, other than I heard very negative things about her (a total phony and 'leaker')," Trump wrote.

Posting so frequently at one point, Trump misspelled the last name of Rep. Liz Cheney, the vice chair of the House January 6 committee.

"Chaney conveniently left out the snippet in my speech to, 'GO PEACEFULLY & PATRIOTICALLY,'" Trump wrote. "Isn't she disgraceful???" (Trump explained that when he told rally attendees to march to the Capitol on January 6, he added that they should do so "peacefully and patriotically.")

Hutchinson's testimony undermined these claims by alleging that Trump wanted the metal detectors, or mags, set up around the site of his speech on the Ellipse to be taken down since the crowd wasn't big enough.

"Something to the effect of take the f-ing mags away," Hutchinson testified that Trump said on January 6. Hutchison added that Trump was informed that some people attempting to enter the rally were armed, and that the Secret Service had confiscated weapons as a result. The president didn't care, she said.

"When we were in the offstage tent, I was in the vicinity of a conversation where I overheard the president say something to the effect of, 'I don't effing care that they have weapons," Hutchinson testified. "They're not here to hurt me. Take the effing mags away. Let my people in. They can march to the Capitol from here. Let the people in. Take the effing mags away."

Perhaps it's fitting that on a day Trump seemed to return to his old form disputed claims about crowd size once again came into focus. But this time it was not a White House press secretary bellowing from behind a lectern.

On Tuesday, it was a former president fuming on the social-media platform created especially for him.

"Never complained about the crowd, it was massive," Trump said of the January 6 rally crowd. "I didn't want or request that we make room for people with guns to watch my speech. Who would ever want that? Not me!"

The social-media platform is called Truth.

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Plans To Halt Ibrahim Gusau’s NFF Presidential Ambition Uncovered

Those strongly opposed to the NFF Presidential ambition of Chairman of Chairmen and Zamfara FA Chairman, Ibrahim Gusau, have perfected a plan to stop him according to our findings

Gusau enjoys the goodwill of the NFF Congress and he is widely regarded for his integrity even though at a time he was seen as the hatchet man for NFF President Amaju Pinnick.

Close watchers said Gusau was the main reason Pinnick was re-elected in Katsina in September 2018.

The rumours were that a pact was even reached right before a former state Governor that the Zamfara FA boss will succeed Pinnick after his second tenure as President.

Gusau now wishes to be king and not a king maker and this has not gone down well with the powers that be despite all the promises.

And now the grand plan is to question Gusau’s ethical conduct as regards the controversial Anambra Football Association elections, which he supervised.

They have boasted that they have a video footage which they claim clearly showed he was compromised to ensure a certain candidate was elected chairman.

“That’s the trump card they want to use to stop Gusau, who is a strong contender for the NFF Presidency,” a top source informed


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Angola Hires Law Firm in Row Over Former President Dos Santos Funeral

Angola Hires Law Firm in Row Over Former President Dos Santos’ Funeral (News Central TV)

Amid of a dispute within the family over the late leader’s funeral, the government of Angola has recruited a law company to represent both its interests and those of widow Ana Paula dos Santos, the former president José Eduardo dos Santos.

While the widow and younger children want his remains repatriated to Angola, the former president’s older children want to have custody of it and arrange a funeral in Spain.

The administration and the late leader’s family reportedly tried to come to an agreement on funeral plans, but they were unable, according to local media.

By the end of this week, a Spanish court is expected to make a decision about the body’s custody.

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Jose dos Santos, who ruled Angola for 38 years before retiring in 2017, passed away on July 8 in a hospital in Barcelona, Spain.

Since stepping down in 2017, he had mostly lived in Barcelona. He had been undergoing treatment for various health challenges.

Angola’s current President Joao Lourenco, announced five days of national mourning starting Friday, when the country’s flag will fly at half-mast and public events are cancelled.

Dos Santos came to power four years after Angola gained independence from Portugal and became engrossed in the Cold War as a proxy battlefield.

His political journey spanned single-party Marxist rule in post-colonial years and a democratic system of government adopted in 2008. He voluntarily stepped down when his health began failing.

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BJP government’s demonetisation scheme of scrapping high-value currency notes in order to solve the problem of black money in India had a critical impact on the majority of the population in the country, said former Union minister P Chidambaram. Addressing a discussion on ‘Demonetisation scheme’, he claimed that the ban on high-value currency[Read More…]

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday hinted at more radical reforms, saying his government will not shy away from taking difficult decisions that are in national interest. Inaugurating a new educational and training campus of the Sebi-run National Institute of Securities Markets (NISM) in this industrial township near Mumbai, Modi[Read More…]

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New Delhi, Feb 11 (IANS) The Narendra Modi government is keen to get parliamentary approval for the triple talaq bill but there is no certainty that it will clear the Rajya Sabha hurdle in the remaining two days of the budget session and the measure may again be implemented through an ordinance.

Opposition parties and several leaders from the Muslim community are sticking to their stand against the bill, contending there is no need for it as the instant triple talaq has been banned by the Supreme Court.

Most leaders IANS spoke to also opposed the criminalisation of triple talaq and the provision of three-year jail to the husband.

The triple talaq ordinance was re-promulgated in January this year as the revised triple talaq bill was passed by the Lok Sabha in the last session but could not be passed in the Rajya Sabha where the government lacks majority.

Communist Paty of India-Marxist leader Brinda Karat said the government should not bring a matter from civil to criminal law for a particular community.

“We are in support of the striking down of triple talaq, which is instant and arbitrary, and which was duly struck down by the Supreme Court. Now the government wants to criminalise a practice that doesn’t exist in law. If a man does leave the wife, it is desertion and abandonment, which falls in the purview of civil law. It is not a criminal offence.

“Now the question rises: if the government want to bring a matter from civil law to the criminal law, why do it selectively for a certain community,” Karat told IANS.

“There are some very prominent public figures in the country who have deserted their wives. If there’s to be a law it’s these persons who should be first arrested and put in jail,” she remarked.

Kamal Farooqui, a member of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board, termed the bill “a political gimmick” that was not needed when the practice of triple talaq itself has been struck down by the Supreme Court.

“It is illogical. And it hurts the women as well as the unity of a family. How the two of them can reconcile when the husband is in the prison. May be (Prime Minister) Narendra Modi is trying to tell his followers see ‘I can create problems for Muslims in this fashion’,” he said.

Congress MP Sushmita Dev has said the Congress would scrap the triple talaq bill if it comes to power and instead go for an alternative that emerges out of discussions within the Muslim community.

“Our stand inside and outside Parliament is same. We are opposing criminalisation of triple talaq and will continue to do it. There are solid legal reasons behind it. The common man understands it,” she had earlier told IANS.

The Supreme Court had declared the triple talaq practice “unconstitutional” in August 2017.

According to social activists, Muslim marriage is a civil contract between two adults and the procedures to be followed on its breakdown should also be of civil nature. Penal action to discourage the practice of instant triple talaq does not take into account issues of economic security of women, they add.

The government should strengthen the negotiating capacities of women by providing them support and criminalising instant triple talaq was not the answer.

It has also been suggested that the government should provide economic support to the affected women, children and other dependents if the husband is put behind bars.

The bill allows the aggrieved woman as well as those related to her by blood to be the complainant.

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Hello Pierre, how can I enable AVIF support for XnViewMP in Linux?

XnViewMP is not able to recognize this format, and AVIF (as well as HEIF) are not even listed by the XnViewMP app among supported formats either for reading or writing even in Linux environments where I can enable AVIF support for other image browsers like Gvenview. It applies to XnViewMP distributed in both Debian and AppImage packages (downloaded from XnView.com websites).

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Hello everyone, it’s me again, Tony 👋
A quick update.
💼 I quit my job
After a long time of consideration, I have decided to quit my job to pursue full-time indie hacking. 🥳
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After 7 years working as a dev, I quit my job to pursue my dream: build software I love and make a living out of it.

I have:
– Ideas
– Backup plans
– No wife, no kid
– Saving for 2+ years
– And most of all: Faith in myself

Let's see if I can make it! 👊
During 7 years of working as a Software Engineer, I have learned a lot about both technical skills and some sense of how the software industry works. I’m now ready to go on by myself.
I have prepared for this journey for a long time. I have some revenue from my side projects, lots of ideas, and lots of savings 💰.
What will I be working on?
For the moment, I will be focusing on my projects: and I’m thinking of picking up the 3rd project now that I have 40 more hours per week!
I have a lot of ideas, mostly focusing on developers and small businesses. I also find the remote working space interesting and want to do something about it. I’m still not sure what yet.
I will share my journey here in my newsletter and on my Twitter. Probably consider jumping to Youtube and TikTok too! So stay tuned! 😊
🎁 New update for DevUtils!
In August, I dropped another update for DevUtils with a lot of new features. This is the 8th update of the year!
DevUtils 1.11 is released! 🎁🎉

New stuff:
📖 Markdown Preview
⚡ Instant Clipboard Replace
🆔 Generate Nano ID, Object ID
⏰ Show formatted time in JWT Debugger
🌈 Format JavaScript/Python objects to JSON

... and many more!

📜 Full changelog:
The landing page has also been updated with more information and fancy demo videos. Give it a look and let me know what you think! 😄
🤫 PS: I’m testing out new (increased) prices for DevUtils, if you want to grab a license before the price changes, now it’s the time!
🖤 updates
Because of the new update for DevUtils, I haven’t been able to work on Black Magic much this month. However, I still have a lot to share.
New templates:
Showing your local time! A few of you have asked for this, and it seems easy enough. So here it is! 😁
Tony Dinh 🎯
Just fixed a bunch of bugs and added a new template to Black Magic!

⏰ Show your local time!
BlackMagic’s stats in August 2021:
I discovered this chart from Paddle recently and want to share it with you all.
Black Magic MRR
Black Magic MRR
To be honest, I’m surprised that Black Magic passed $100 MRR. This is a great motivation for me! Also, 2 customers churned 😞, I’m hoping to get some feedback from them. Let’s see.
Other stats:
  • Website visits: 9,760
  • Total users: 4,911
  • Active users: 2,592
  • Revenue: $318 MRR
What will be next for Black Magic?
There are a lot of directions I have in mind to grow Black Magic:
  • Continue adding more unique fun tools for Twitter that people can’t find anywhere else.
  • Pivot into something more serious: CRM, analytics tool, thread composing, tweet scheduling, etc…
  • Or both!
I’ll put more thought into this. For the moment, I’ll be focusing on refining the existing features and bug squashing 🏹🐞.
That’s all I have…
…for now!
Thank you for reading and following my journey!
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President Kenyatta Vows To Unite Kenya After Divisive Poll

After being sworn in for a second term, Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has urged his divided nation to move on from months of political upheaval.

His inauguration ceremony follows a violent and drawn out election process – which included two disputed polls.

As expected he said all the right things: uniting Kenyans, more jobs, continuing with development projects started in his previous term.

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