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I’m a collector of quotes. I love it when I can find a phrase that can change my perspective, open my eyes, and spread a little light for me. I’ve picked up along the way. They have a lot of meaning to me, personally. --> #inspiration #motivation #change
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Trump's Wells Fargo Tweet Cited In Court Hearing As Reason To Remove Mulvaney As CFPB Acting Chief http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-cfpb-mulvaney-hearing-20171222-story.html
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De'Aaron Fox injury update: Kings guard out at least 2 weeks with torn quad muscle: De'Aaron Fox is averaging 9.4 points and 3.7 assists per game this season. http://dlvr.it/Q7GH2P
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Celebrities Simple Hairstyles Ideas for Short Hair
If you've always wanted to go short, now's a better time than ever to take the plunge.
http://www.stylefigures.com/celebs-simple-hairstyles-ideas-short-hair
If you've always wanted to go short, now's a better time than ever to take the plunge.
http://www.stylefigures.com/celebs-simple-hairstyles-ideas-short-hair
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From Neuroscience News: Beauty is in the Eye of the Beer Holder - A new eye tracking study reveals intoxicated men spend less time examining women's faces compared to their sober counterparts, and spend more time looking at 'sexual' body parts.
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"Despite the many impressive discoveries humans have made about the universe, scientists are still unsure about the birth story of our solar system.
Scientists with the University of Chicago have laid out a comprehensive theory for how our solar system could have formed in the wind-blown bubbles around a giant, long-dead star. Published Dec. 22 in the Astrophysical Journal, the study addresses a nagging cosmic mystery about the abundance of two elements in our solar system compared to the rest of the galaxy."
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-12-scientists-solar-giant-star.html
Scientists with the University of Chicago have laid out a comprehensive theory for how our solar system could have formed in the wind-blown bubbles around a giant, long-dead star. Published Dec. 22 in the Astrophysical Journal, the study addresses a nagging cosmic mystery about the abundance of two elements in our solar system compared to the rest of the galaxy."
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-12-scientists-solar-giant-star.html
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Amazing Agate Photos | #Geology #GeologyPage #Agate
More Photos: http://www.geologypage.com/2016/09/amazing-agate-photos.html
More Photos: http://www.geologypage.com/2016/09/amazing-agate-photos.html
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Comcast, DirecTV, Dish, Charter Set Rate Hikes for 2018 http://variety.com/2017/biz/news/comcast-directv-dish-rates-prices-increase-2018-1202647927/ -via Flynx
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Here's my new Avengers Infinity War Stan Lee Trailer. Excelsior Christmas! 🎄 ► http://bit.ly/2kGdKRS
#avengersinfinitywar #avengers #infinitywar #stanlee #thanos #ironman #thor #spiderman #captainamerica #marvel #comics
#avengersinfinitywar #avengers #infinitywar #stanlee #thanos #ironman #thor #spiderman #captainamerica #marvel #comics
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Ellington tied a career high with 28 points and set a career-best by connecting on eight 3-pointers. The Heat went 16-for-25 from 3-point range. #miamiheat #NBA #Heat #Mavericks +Dallas Mavericks #nbanews
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What's Elizabeth's guilty pleasure? "Telling my friends, I have plans on Friday nights, when the only big plan is to walk from the couch to the refrigerator. Nothing is better than curling up on the couch with some TV and snacks!" #DCCOfTheWeek
Read more on: bit.ly/2C2cvX0
#Sports #NFL #Cheerleaders
(Credit: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders)
Read more on: bit.ly/2C2cvX0
#Sports #NFL #Cheerleaders
(Credit: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders)
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A second photo from my top 10 of 2017. This is the Vancouver Trade & Convention Centre and Coal Harbour in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
More photos here: https://www.mrussellphotography.com/blog/top-10-photos-2017/
#vancouver #top10of2017 #britishcolumbia #cityscapes #photography
More photos here: https://www.mrussellphotography.com/blog/top-10-photos-2017/
#vancouver #top10of2017 #britishcolumbia #cityscapes #photography
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My watches page https://www.paolodalprato.com/watches
#macrophotography #hqspmacro #hqspflowers #fotomaniaitalia #ilovephotography
My watches page https://www.paolodalprato.com/watches
#macrophotography #hqspmacro #hqspflowers #fotomaniaitalia #ilovephotography
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Consumer Reports subscribers rank Sprint dead last among the four major U.S. carriers - According to Consumer Reports latest survey to determine the best carrier, which is based on votes cast by the magazine's subscribers, small carriers finished at the top of the list while large carriers like AT&T and Sprint finished at the bottom of the survey. The three that finished on top, Consumer Cellular, Project Fi, and Ting all scored high for value. It was Consumer Cellular that took home the tr...
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[NEW] MOST Parents Are Commiting This BIG Mistake - Must Watch by Sheikh Mohammad Elshinawy
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"A novel approach to studying the viscosity of water has revealed new insights about the behavior of water molecules and may open pathways for liquid-based electronics.
A team of researchers led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory used a high-resolution inelastic X-ray scattering technique to measure the strong bond involving a hydrogen atom sandwiched between two oxygen atoms. This hydrogen bond is a quantum-mechanical phenomenon responsible for various properties of water, including viscosity, which determines a liquid's resistance to flow or to change shape.
While water is the most abundant substance on Earth, its behavior at a molecular level is not well understood.
"Despite all what we know about water, it is a mysterious, atypical substance that we need to better understand to unlock its vast potential, particularly in information and energy technologies," said Takeshi Egami, University of Tennessee-ORNL Distinguished Scientist/Professor working through the Shull Wollan Center--a Joint Institute for Neutron Sciences, an ORNL-UT partnership.
The team's study, published in Science Advances, demonstrated that it is possible to probe real-space, real-time dynamics of water and other liquids. Previous studies have provided snapshots of water's atomic structure, but little is known about how water molecules move.
"The hydrogen bond has a strong effect on the dynamic correlation between molecules as they move through space and time, but so far the data, mostly by optical laser spectroscopy, yielded broad or 'hazy' results with unclear specificity," Egami said.
For a clearer picture, the joint ORNL-UT team used an advanced X-ray technique known as inelastic X-ray scattering to determine molecular movement. They found that the dynamics of oxygen-to-oxygen bonding between water molecules is, surprisingly, not random but highly coordinated. When the bond between water molecules is disrupted, the strong hydrogen bonds work to maintain a stable environment over a specific period of time".
A team of researchers led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory used a high-resolution inelastic X-ray scattering technique to measure the strong bond involving a hydrogen atom sandwiched between two oxygen atoms. This hydrogen bond is a quantum-mechanical phenomenon responsible for various properties of water, including viscosity, which determines a liquid's resistance to flow or to change shape.
While water is the most abundant substance on Earth, its behavior at a molecular level is not well understood.
"Despite all what we know about water, it is a mysterious, atypical substance that we need to better understand to unlock its vast potential, particularly in information and energy technologies," said Takeshi Egami, University of Tennessee-ORNL Distinguished Scientist/Professor working through the Shull Wollan Center--a Joint Institute for Neutron Sciences, an ORNL-UT partnership.
The team's study, published in Science Advances, demonstrated that it is possible to probe real-space, real-time dynamics of water and other liquids. Previous studies have provided snapshots of water's atomic structure, but little is known about how water molecules move.
"The hydrogen bond has a strong effect on the dynamic correlation between molecules as they move through space and time, but so far the data, mostly by optical laser spectroscopy, yielded broad or 'hazy' results with unclear specificity," Egami said.
For a clearer picture, the joint ORNL-UT team used an advanced X-ray technique known as inelastic X-ray scattering to determine molecular movement. They found that the dynamics of oxygen-to-oxygen bonding between water molecules is, surprisingly, not random but highly coordinated. When the bond between water molecules is disrupted, the strong hydrogen bonds work to maintain a stable environment over a specific period of time".
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Rust preserves fossils from early Earth | #Geology #GeologyPage
Since life originated on Earth between 3.8 and 3.9 Ga ago, microorganisms have significantly shaped and influenced the chemistry of Earth’s surface and subsurface environments.
Read more : http://www.geologypage.com/2015/02/rust-preserves-fossils-from-early-earth.html
Since life originated on Earth between 3.8 and 3.9 Ga ago, microorganisms have significantly shaped and influenced the chemistry of Earth’s surface and subsurface environments.
Read more : http://www.geologypage.com/2015/02/rust-preserves-fossils-from-early-earth.html
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"Hours after signing the annual defense spending bill called the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), Trump released an accompanying presidential signing statement formalizing his opposition to a slew of measures aimed at enforcing a tougher U.S. policy towards Russia.
The measures, which passed with large bipartisan majorities in both chambers of Congress, focus on combatting Russian aggression in the U.S. and around the world, with a specific focus on hybrid warfare operations. They were included in the NDAA as part of a broader response to Russian election interference and ongoing influence campaigns waged by the Kremlin.
But when the bill reached Trump’s desk, he couldn’t bring himself to just sign it and let the provisions become law. Instead, he attached a special statement to let Putin know that Congress was forcing him to sign the mean bill, and that he wouldn’t sign it if he didn’t have to.
In the statement, Trump explicitly objected to over 40 provisions included in the bill, most of which were aimed at bolstering our defenses against Russian aggression."
The measures, which passed with large bipartisan majorities in both chambers of Congress, focus on combatting Russian aggression in the U.S. and around the world, with a specific focus on hybrid warfare operations. They were included in the NDAA as part of a broader response to Russian election interference and ongoing influence campaigns waged by the Kremlin.
But when the bill reached Trump’s desk, he couldn’t bring himself to just sign it and let the provisions become law. Instead, he attached a special statement to let Putin know that Congress was forcing him to sign the mean bill, and that he wouldn’t sign it if he didn’t have to.
In the statement, Trump explicitly objected to over 40 provisions included in the bill, most of which were aimed at bolstering our defenses against Russian aggression."
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Check out the view of SpaceX's rocket launch the evening of December 22, 2017 at Disney California Adventure Park in California. SpaceX launched from Vandenberg Air Force base.
https://www.facebook.com/FOX10Phoenix/videos/1611309802250894/
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IuvmPress EN:
‘Politico’s attack on the Iran deal: Did Obama really help Hezbollah
http://iuvmpress.com/20281
‘Politico’s attack on the Iran deal: Did Obama really help Hezbollah
http://iuvmpress.com/20281
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💥🕳💥Just when you think it couldn't get any better!! 🌟↔️🌟🕳😮
In February of 2016, scientists from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced the first-ever detection of gravitational waves.
A little over a century after they were first predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity, we finally had proof that this phenomenon existed. In August of 2017, another major breakthrough occurred when LIGO detected waves that were believed to be caused by a neutron star merger.
Shortly thereafter, scientists at LIGO, Advanced Virgo, and the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope were able to determine where in the sky the neutron star merger occurred!
While many studies have focused on the by-products of this merger, a new study by researchers from Trinity University, the University of Texas at Austin and Eureka Scientific, has chosen to focus on the remnant, which they claim is likely a black hole.
For the sake of their study, which recently appeared online under the title "GW170817 Most Likely Made a Black Hole", the team consulted data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory to examine what resulted of the supernova merger.
This data was obtained during Director's Discretionary Time observations that were made on December 3rd and 6th, 2017, some 108 days after the merger.
This data showed a light-curve increase in the X-ray band which was compatible to the radio flux increase that was reported by a previous study conducted by the same team.
These combined results suggest that radio and X-ray emissions were being produced at the same source, and that the rising light-curve that followed the merger was likely due to an increase in accelerated charged particles in the external shock – the region where an outflow of gas interacts with the interstellar medium.
As they indicate in their study, this could either be explained as the result of a more massive neutron star being formed from the merger, or a black hole:
"The merger of two neutron stars with mass 1.48 ± 0.12 M and 1.26 ± 0.1 M — where the merged object has a mass of 2.74 +0.04-0.01 M… could result in either a neutron star or a black hole. There might also be a debris disk that gets accreted onto the central object over a period of time, and which could be source of keV X-rays."
The team also ruled out various possibilities of what could account for this rise in X-ray luminosity. Basically, they concluded that the X-ray photons were not coming from a debris disk, which would have been left over from the merger of the two neutron stars. They also deduced that they would not be produced by a relativistic jet spewing from the remnant, since the flux would be much lower after 102 days.
All of this indicated that the remnant was more likely to be a black hole than a hyper-massive neutron star. As they explained:
"We show next that if the merged object were a hyper-massive neutron star endowed with a strong magnetic field, then the X-ray luminosity associated with the dipole radiation would be larger than the observed luminosity 10 days after the event, but much smaller than the observed flux at t ~ 100 days. This argues against the formation of a hyper-massive neutron star in this merger."
Last, but not least, they considered the X-ray and radio emissions that were present roughly 100 days after the merger. These, they claim, are best explained by continued emissions coming from the merger-induced shock (and the not remnant itself) since these emissions would continue to propagate in the interstellar medium around the remnant.
🌟Combined with early X-ray data, this all points towards GW170817 now being a black hole!!!
The first-ever detection of gravitational waves signaled the dawn of a new era in astronomical research!🌟
Since that time, observatories like LIGO, Advanced Virgo, and GEO 600 have also benefited from information-sharing and new studies that have indicated that mergers are more common than previously thought, and that gravity waves could be used to probe the interior of supernovae. With this latest study, scientists have learned that they are not only able to detect the waves caused by black hole mergers, but even the creation thereof. At the same time, it shows how the study of the Universe is growing!
Not only is astronomy advancing to the point where we are able to study more and more of the visible Universe, but the invisible Universe as well.
Further Reading: LIGO, arXiv. (Links to these are within the post itself).
In February of 2016, scientists from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced the first-ever detection of gravitational waves.
A little over a century after they were first predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity, we finally had proof that this phenomenon existed. In August of 2017, another major breakthrough occurred when LIGO detected waves that were believed to be caused by a neutron star merger.
Shortly thereafter, scientists at LIGO, Advanced Virgo, and the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope were able to determine where in the sky the neutron star merger occurred!
While many studies have focused on the by-products of this merger, a new study by researchers from Trinity University, the University of Texas at Austin and Eureka Scientific, has chosen to focus on the remnant, which they claim is likely a black hole.
For the sake of their study, which recently appeared online under the title "GW170817 Most Likely Made a Black Hole", the team consulted data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory to examine what resulted of the supernova merger.
This data was obtained during Director's Discretionary Time observations that were made on December 3rd and 6th, 2017, some 108 days after the merger.
This data showed a light-curve increase in the X-ray band which was compatible to the radio flux increase that was reported by a previous study conducted by the same team.
These combined results suggest that radio and X-ray emissions were being produced at the same source, and that the rising light-curve that followed the merger was likely due to an increase in accelerated charged particles in the external shock – the region where an outflow of gas interacts with the interstellar medium.
As they indicate in their study, this could either be explained as the result of a more massive neutron star being formed from the merger, or a black hole:
"The merger of two neutron stars with mass 1.48 ± 0.12 M and 1.26 ± 0.1 M — where the merged object has a mass of 2.74 +0.04-0.01 M… could result in either a neutron star or a black hole. There might also be a debris disk that gets accreted onto the central object over a period of time, and which could be source of keV X-rays."
The team also ruled out various possibilities of what could account for this rise in X-ray luminosity. Basically, they concluded that the X-ray photons were not coming from a debris disk, which would have been left over from the merger of the two neutron stars. They also deduced that they would not be produced by a relativistic jet spewing from the remnant, since the flux would be much lower after 102 days.
All of this indicated that the remnant was more likely to be a black hole than a hyper-massive neutron star. As they explained:
"We show next that if the merged object were a hyper-massive neutron star endowed with a strong magnetic field, then the X-ray luminosity associated with the dipole radiation would be larger than the observed luminosity 10 days after the event, but much smaller than the observed flux at t ~ 100 days. This argues against the formation of a hyper-massive neutron star in this merger."
Last, but not least, they considered the X-ray and radio emissions that were present roughly 100 days after the merger. These, they claim, are best explained by continued emissions coming from the merger-induced shock (and the not remnant itself) since these emissions would continue to propagate in the interstellar medium around the remnant.
🌟Combined with early X-ray data, this all points towards GW170817 now being a black hole!!!
The first-ever detection of gravitational waves signaled the dawn of a new era in astronomical research!🌟
Since that time, observatories like LIGO, Advanced Virgo, and GEO 600 have also benefited from information-sharing and new studies that have indicated that mergers are more common than previously thought, and that gravity waves could be used to probe the interior of supernovae. With this latest study, scientists have learned that they are not only able to detect the waves caused by black hole mergers, but even the creation thereof. At the same time, it shows how the study of the Universe is growing!
Not only is astronomy advancing to the point where we are able to study more and more of the visible Universe, but the invisible Universe as well.
Further Reading: LIGO, arXiv. (Links to these are within the post itself).
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7 Best eBook Readers For iOS (iPhone and iPad)
Smartphones and tablets have become an integral part of our lives and many owners are increasingly using their devices to read books and novels. Since today’s smartphones and tablets have huge storage, it is easier to store and read hundreds of books and novels in your smartphones. While the small screen size is not ideal for prolonged reading, the advancement of display technologies makes it easier on the eyes.
The Apple iPhone and iPad are very good reading devices, thanks to their crisp and clear Retina Displays. So, it is no wonder that there are many apps which let us do just that. If you happen to be looking for the best ebook reading apps for your iOS device (iPhone and iPad), we have gathered some of them in this article.
Read all about it here: https://goo.gl/8XcJ5n
#Apple #iPhone #iPad #iOS #eBookReader #eBooks #Apps #Free
Smartphones and tablets have become an integral part of our lives and many owners are increasingly using their devices to read books and novels. Since today’s smartphones and tablets have huge storage, it is easier to store and read hundreds of books and novels in your smartphones. While the small screen size is not ideal for prolonged reading, the advancement of display technologies makes it easier on the eyes.
The Apple iPhone and iPad are very good reading devices, thanks to their crisp and clear Retina Displays. So, it is no wonder that there are many apps which let us do just that. If you happen to be looking for the best ebook reading apps for your iOS device (iPhone and iPad), we have gathered some of them in this article.
Read all about it here: https://goo.gl/8XcJ5n
#Apple #iPhone #iPad #iOS #eBookReader #eBooks #Apps #Free
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