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#Basketball Article of the Day... December 13, 2018
Sideline Out-Of-Bounds Plays

More than slightly bias.

Undulatus Asperatus sitings are strikingly visual reminders that the atmosphere is an ocean of gas, complete with cloud waves crashing high above. They occur when enough atmospheric instability, or rising air, is available to create widespread cloud cover, as well as wind shear and turbulence, which creates the wavy, rough sea-like visual effect.

Undulatus Asperatus is a cloud formation, proposed in 2009 as a separate cloud classification by the founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society. If successful it will be the first cloud formation added since cirrus intortus in 1951 to the International Cloud Atlas of the World Meteorological Organization. The name translates approximately as "roughened or agitated waves".

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Life in Deep Earth totals 15 to 23 billion tons of carbon — hundreds of times more than humans | #Geology #GeologyPage

Barely living “zombie” bacteria and other forms of life constitute an immense amount of carbon deep within Earth’s subsurface — 245 to 385 times greater than the carbon mass of all humans on the surface, according to scientists nearing the end of a 10-year international collaboration to reveal Earth’s innermost secrets.

Read more : http://www.geologypage.com/2018/12/life-in-deep-earth-totals-15-to-23-billion-tons-of-carbon-hundreds-of-times-more-than-humans.html

10 Best Supplements to Boost Brain Power

Nootropics are natural supplements or drugs that have a beneficial effect on brain function in healthy people. Here are the 10 best nootropic supplements to boost your brain function.

https://medmd.org/the-10-best-nootropic-supplements-to-boost-brain-power/

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Apple plans major US expansion including a new $1 billion campus in Austin https://tcrn.ch/2EsrhHZ

Scientists use light to power pacemaker
WED, DEC 12

https://nano-magazine.com/news/2018/12/12/scientists-use-light-to-power-pacemaker?ss_source=sscampaigns&ss_campaign_id=5c1147f58897670001232307&ss_email_id=5c1152bd0a27db000137693c&ss_campaign_name=Weekly+News+Round-Up%3A+Sprayable+gel+could+fight+off+post-surgery+cancer&ss_campaign_sent_date=2018-12-12T18%3A26%3A08Z

Scientists will gather today to debate where NASA should next land on Mars, as the American space agency prepares a new mission in its search for life on the Red Planet.

https://rxscience.org/nasa-stronghold-about-life-on-mars/

Maria Butina and (her handler?) Alexander Torshin infiltrated the NRA under the guise of being representatives of a similar Russian gun owner's society. (Russians don't have the sort of personal access to guns that US citizens do, and are heavily regulated, so this "Russian NRA" was a scam, perpetrated just for this reason.)

Subsequently, the NRA spent nearly three times the amount they had expended during previous presidential elections, in support of Trump in 2016, and according to recent reports they are now in a severe financial state, close to bankruptcy.
This hints that either they lost their minds and acted like addicts in front of poker machines, or they were expecting some sort of new monetary flow to replenish their coffers.

If Trump doesn't have Maria Butina on his radar as the next cooperating witness giving information to prosecutors, he should, because she is one person who can testify directly about any exploitation of the NRA by Russian interests during the election.

A few selected excerpts from the article below:

A report this week by NBC News that suspected Russian spy Maria Butina will plead guilty to violating laws regarding government agents operating within the United States is the worst news Donald Trump has faced in months, but not for the reason many think.

Butina will reportedly admit to conspiring with a Russian official believed to be Alexander Torshin "to establish unofficial lines of communication with Americans having power and influence over U.S. politics . . . for the benefit of the Russian Federation" (Torshin recently retired from being a deputy director of the Russian central bank). She will also admit to attempting to influence the National Rifle Association and “Political Party 1,” believed to be the Republican Party. Butina will admit to setting up a meeting between senior officials of the NRA and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in December 2015, in the early months of the Trump campaign. She later reported to Torshin, “We should let them express their gratitude now, we will put pressure on them quietly later.”
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With all of the guilty pleas and sentencings in court this week, speculation has been flying that Special Counsel Mueller is reaching the end of his investigation. Don’t believe it. The Washington Post reported this week that 14 Trump friends, associates, and campaign and transition officials had contacts with Russians during the 18 months of his campaign.

Every single one of them lied about Russia. They started out by flatly denying they had any contacts at all with any Russians. Then they admitted they had a few, but the contacts were innocuous. When numerous meetings with Russians came to light, they said the contacts didn’t amount to anything. When it turned out the contacts were serious, they began denying there had been any “collusion” with the Russians. Trump made it a refrain, that there had been “no collusion” with Russians during the many times he now had to admit his people had met with them.

Robert Mueller, who has indicted and/or taken guilty pleas from 33 individuals and at least three companies, is turning from indictments of Russians to indictments of their American counterparts. He is focusing his investigation not on “collusion,” but on conspiracy to defraud the United States of America. That’s what he indicted 13 Russians who worked for the Russian troll factory, the Internet Research Agency in St. Petersburg: conspiracy “to defraud the United States by impairing, obstructing, and defeating the lawful functions of the government through fraud and deceit for the purpose of interfering with the U.S. political and electoral processes, including the presidential election of 2016.”

Mueller indicted 12 Russian military intelligence agents for “Conspiracy to Commit an Offense against the United States” by hacking into Democratic Party emails and to “stage releases of the stolen documents to interfere with the 2016 presidential election.” He accused the Russians of using false identities and making false statements to hide their connections to “Russia and the Russian government.”

Mueller has been after a conspiracy between Trump and the Trump campaign and the Russian government all along. And he’s using fraud and conspiracy statutes under the U.S. Code to do it.

Mueller is going to connect Donald Trump and his campaign directly to the government of Vladimir Putin. This week, with the guilty plea of his agent Maria Butina, Putin appears ready to help him.

Robert Mueller has never cared about “collusion.” All he has cared about is breaking the law, which Donald Trump has done plenty of. Trump can tweet all he wants, but he can’t stop the big truck coming straight at him driven by Robert Mueller.

Read the whole article for more!
via +Phalinex and +Alec Johnson

https://www.salon.com/2018/12/12/maria-butinas-plea-is-the-worst-news-ever-for-trump/

By making these 10 lifestyle changes, you can lower your blood pressure and reduce your risk of heart disease.

https://health-zone.org/10-natural-ways-lower-blood-pressure/

After 9 years in space collecting data that revealed our night sky to be filled with trillions of hidden planets, NASA is ending the Kepler space telescope’s science operations. Kepler discovered over 2,600 planets, some of which could be promising places for life. https://go.nasa.gov/2P2umV1

Obviously, We Could Fund a Border Wall – Democrats, Be Honest

Enhanced osteogenic activity of pre-osteoblasts on surface-modified 3-D printed scaffolds - Materials such as poly(ε-caprolactone) are used as scaffolds in bone tissue engineering, but their inherent hydrophobicity and surface smoothness can impair cell attachment, proliferation and differentiation in the lab, or after implantation in vivo. Surface modifications including chemical alterations or the immobilization of biologically active molecules on materials can overcome the intrinsic hydr...

Nintendo Switch Controller Grip #3DThursday #3DPrinting
https://blog.adafruit.com/2018/12/13/nintendo-switch-controller-grip-3dthursday-3dprinting/

manabun shares:

It is Joy-con grip of Nintendo switch.

The article is light on details but here's the nut of it:

Maria Butina’s boyfriend was responsible for setting up the Trump-Russia backchannel, using the NRA as a “conduit.” Paul Erickson, a longtime Republican operative, made the claim during a private communication released in Butina’s plea deal. In the email, Erickson wrote in December 2016 that he helped to set up a “very private line of communication” between Russia and the Trump campaign. And he used the NRA to do it.