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NEW YORK YANKEES Win American League Championship and one game of 2024 World Series, New Aaron Judge colonge released.
New York Yankees Gerrit Cole Wins AL Cy Young Award
New York Yankees star pitcher wins the 2023 Major League Baseball American League Cy Young Award.
Criticism of New York in the 2023 season with their lowest finish in thirty years in the AL East after winning the AL East in 2022 plus Aaron Judge winning the AL Home Run Record.
Aaron Judge then injured in Los Angeles missed 1/4 of the 2023 MLB season…
Aaron Judge’s missing games statistics, absent from New York in 2023, including his walk off home runs would have been enough for New York Yankees to make the 2023 MLB playoffs.
2023 MLB Cy Young award: Yankees ace Gerrit Cole finally wins first, Blake Snell scores second with Padres win
Both winners dominated their respective American and National League finalists
By: R.J. Anderson
Major League Baseball handed out more hardware on Wednesday night with the announcement of the 2023 Cy Young Award winners. New York Yankees ace Gerrit Cole claimed the American League honors unanimously, while Blake Snell (formerly of the San Diego Padres) was deemed the National League’s top pitcher. For those unfamiliar with the process, these awards are voted on by the Baseball Writers Association of America. Their ballots are cast after the regular season and before the start of the playoffs. Already this week, MLB and the BBWAA have handed out the Rookie and Manager of the Year Awards. Here is the remaining schedule
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Domingo Herman throws Perfect Game in 2023 for New York Yankees.
Domingo German authors perfect game as Yankees top Athletics
In an up-and-down season that has included a suspension and a sub-.500 record headed into Wednesday’s start, German was masterful against the last-place Athletics, mixing his pitches, keeping his defense busy and engaged and posting nine strikeouts along the way.
German’s effort was the fourth perfect game in franchise history, and across MLB, it’s the first perfect game since Seattle’s Felix Hernandez delivered one on Aug. 15, 2012.
The first pitcher born in the Dominican Republic to pitch a perfect game, German also became the first player in MLB history to reach that feat after allowing 10-plus runs in his previous start, according to ESPN Stats & Information research. He joins Don Larsen (1956), David Wells (1998) and David Cone (1999) as Yankees pitchers to achieve the milestone. Larsen’s gem came in Game 5 of the 1956 World Series against the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Montreal Wrestler Sami Zayn “Beats” Action Point Star Johnny Knoxville, Wins New Title
By Jason MacKenzie
Internet Blogger & Death Metal Band: http://www.internetnews.press
SPORTS ILLUSTRATED
LINK: https://www.si.com/wrestling/2023/02/21/wwe-wrestlemania-39-plans-sami-zayn-roman-reigns-cody-rhodes
WWE Professional Wrestling recently featured Action Park mock up movie “Action Point” star Johnny Knoxville who although won the match had to pin Sami Zayn by tying him to the table.
No help from other stars with Knoxville who were mercilessly pounded by Sami Zayn.
Either way the Action Park Championship Title if there was one goes to Sami Zayn who outperformed Knoxville with his “Bloodsport” style tactics.
Any star coming from Action Park to the WWE probably got what he deserved anyway, including tagging Sami Zayn with the humiliating loss of Johnny Knoxville who had to cheat to win.
Now the new name in town is Sami Zayn taking a piece of the Johnny Knoxville promotion status to the WWE with the ruthless beating of Knoxville.
Zayn has also just helped the “Bloodline” led by Roman Reigns, Tribal Leader, who is collecting titles by enlisting Prize Fighter Kevin Owens to back him for the Tag Team Championship win.
The titles kept in the “Bloodline” story for Roman Reigns were lost by other Tribe Members The Uso’s who were feeling pressure from Reigns to bring them more titles have now given them up to Prize Fighter Kevin Owens and Billy Zayn for the “Bloodline”.
The Uso’s I assume are now moving on in the tribe to seek bigger titles for themselves now that Zayn has finally pulled his weight in the WWE by enlisting Kevin Owens to help compete for Reigns by winning more titles for him and the “Bloodline” by now giving him access to the Prize Fighting Circuit for his title collections through the new alliance between Sami Zayn and Prize Fighter Kevin Owens.
RELATED: Kevin Owens & Sami Zayn Win WWE Tag Team Championship
WrestleMania 39 opened with a very entertaining first night.
All eyes remain on night two, but there were plenty of highlights from the Saturday show, including Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens winning the WWE tag team titles.
Rhea Ripley defeated Charlotte Flair in a hard-hitting clash, and Seth Rollins brought the absolute best out of Logan Paul.
SPORTS: New York Yankees Win AL East (American League East Division) Championship
The New York Yankees had a record season this year winning the American League East Championship.
LINK: https://www.mlb.com/news/yankees-win-american-league-division-series-2022
NEW YORK — Until the first cork was popped in Tuesday’s celebration, the Yankees refused to look too far ahead in their mission to raise a championship banner in the Bronx, conscious of the danger in underestimating an upstart Guardians roster. Yet a showdown with the Astros always lurked, a just reward for surviving this grueling American League Division Series.
Related: New York Yankees Aaron Judge wins American League Home Run Record and 2022 Silver Slugger Award Winner.
LINK: https://www.mlb.com/news/silver-slugger-award-winners-2022
MLB.com 2022 Silver Slugger Award Winners
No surprise here, as Judge — who is an MVP finalist and won the Hank Aaron Award in the AL — set an AL record by hitting 62 home runs this season. Judge not only led the Majors in home runs, but he also paced all players in runs (133), RBIs (131), on-base percentage (.425), slugging percentage (.686), OPS (1.111), OPS+ (211) and total bases (391).
COMMENTARY: SAP Designers Invent New Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Patch For Abandoned System For D20 Open Gaming License
By Jason MacKenzie
Right into the commentary, this page own this new patch….visit my D20 RPG Beta Game DRAGON ADVENTURES here for details to play the patch: www.advanceddungeonsanddragons.com/dragonadventures and follow along on the game / comic blog at www.dawnforgedcast.com and www.jasonmackenzie.net .
This new patch for the abandoned original game system from the 1980’s has finished the work that was incomplete on the original game 1978 now playable in it’s original context.
I’m not saying this patch is the only solution to finishing the original game of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons but it works on the rule sets.
For example in the game players were promised a system that was expandable and never happened, for example some characters could only play to about level 10 while other could play to 99 or higher.
The game system never made it past the promise of including the new features and was abandoned and replaced with a 2nd Edition, similar to today’s version and the original was never re-developed.
The new patch made for the D20 System on DRAGON ADVENTURES our game currently in Beta Development now runs an Official Version of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons as proven by the new patch!
Game Designers and SAP Professionals should be excited about these new opportunities their careers could hold on D20.
If you follow any of my pages you’ll find out I am an SAP Professional and finished a complete server that we couldn’t sell….companies just didn’t have the money to cover the front end jobs because even Community College computer jobs couldn’t cover the wages to run the front screens for staff.
The result….to many front end jobs to run the SAP basic user end because it was still to hard for Community College Degrees, it was just too many people to hire to run the software meaning that some companies couldn’t afford the installation disk.
Continuing on, I switched to digital music promotion and comic book promotion and now have developed a new sellable product DRAGON ADVENTURES D20 RPG BETA to advertise on our page network.
Remember, the page advertising network was developed by myself similar to SAP as a project.
The we applied our degrees from university like mine from St. Francis Xavier University in our game group where we took analysis, design and SAP.
The skill set for RPG (Roll Playing Game) Design is similar course work…analysis and design.
Then the SAP component like a video game designer was examining the game from that perspective.
What we came up with is a new patch that updated the original abandoned Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Players Handbook with a new Official Patch according to it’s own Player’s Handbook.
That means the game is it’s own system, the same as the patch.
On computer software a similar patch would have opened up new original functions of programs like SAP or video games and released new original content from the same program.
The patch proves that our RPG on Open Development on gaming….D20 RPG Open Gaming License, that our patch is the same system as Advanced Dungeons & Dragons making our D20 Beta Game an Official Version of the rules of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons with a new original rules patch that we made that opened new original levels in the first Advanced Dungeons & Dragons.
This patch could have been used then if available to finish that system, and they would have not needed 2nd Edition.
I mean, at least…it offers an official solution to continue the first game instead of making a second version.
That means my game DRAGON ADVENTURES runs on Official Advanced Dungeons & Dragons with a new updated patch.
Our patch, which does not work on newer RPG game systems because they are based on 2nd Edition would create duplicate rules on the newer model.
The patch, still being developed but playable, uses the second ability score column, a main function of the game, as a new patch to play the rest of the unfinished rules in the abandoned system.
For example, all characters can now play to level 99 or higher and have ability scores up to 25 on the original rules.
The new functionality also includes a second spell book option for “Unearthed Arcana” levels to have extra spells starting at Level 1 for over ability score 18 magic users.
Adding the second column for example allowed the character to use a second spell book, the same as the first with new spells in it, for having a 19 intelligence score or higher to start playing “Unearthed Arcana” at Level 1 while still using the original.
On the newer D20 game, extra spells are listed as “Cantrips” that come with each character as free spells they can use during the game extra to it’s spell book.
These new rules run as a perfect patch on the original Players Handbook, proving DRAGON ADVENTURES owns an Official Rules Set it won on D20 RPG Gaming by Beta testing the RPG Game Development System such as an SAP or Video Game test.
Plus, expanded official patch….which runs seamless on the original book.
Essentially our new patch proves that we know how to make Official Advanced Dungeon & Dragons rule sets by loading a brand new official game patch that’s playable on the original system on the RPG Game DRAGON ADVENTURES.
That’s what I mean in this commentary, that’s a big deal in Software and RPG Gaming because of the opportunity for Software Developers to develop rpg games on D20 on the Open Gaming License.
I’m sure before long this patch will catch on.
The example is if you make a patch that runs on the original program as official it becomes part of the official rule set.
That is what I have developed off the closed abandoned Advanced Dungeons & Dragons System, it means I own a copy of the code with an official patch to prove I know how to make original official Advanced Dungeons & Dragons.
That means DRAGON ADVENTURES runs on Official Advanced Dungeons & Dragons code that I develop, proved by the patch.
Those are the kinds of opportunities for people like SAP Developers who can now work on modules for D20 RPG Games that could be worth millions of dollars.
It also makes DRAGON ADVENTURES D20 RPG BETA an Official RPG Game because we own a copy of the Official Rules.
Our game group, people who work at jobs like this are all affected by industry outages so we use our game group to work on RPG development on D20 the Open License like a work software project.
Then we came up with an official patch..to it’s own rule book that we already released on D20 on our page.
You can now use our Advanced Dungeons & Dragons patch on your RPG Game Development if you are on the D20 Game System Open Liscence.
Other people working in technology may be heading back to vocational school in their mid forties because of the work outages, but we managed to apply our skills to a new game development system.
Now working at lower wages with an advanced degree isn’t so bad because we have advertising from digital advertising on our network and now own a new D20 RPG Patch that we can sell on our own as a new Adventure RPG Game (DRAGON ADVENTURES) once it is released.
People starting out in RPG game development may not have a lot of money but some have just started out at investing $600 a month until they have $10,000 to start printing their new RPG Game Packages.
While they’re saving to sell new RPG books like this new patch for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons on DRAGON ADVENTURES the time in the difference is spent developing that patch is how we’re getting started.
I can see this patch being really big some day in D20 RPG Gaming, it may not be much but down the road these new investors are going to own new official products that they can print.
That’s the kind of new opportunities now available on RPG Game Development for Software Developers, you may not get paid right away but someday you could own games and patches like this that are worth a lot of money to sell on the Open Gaming License D20 RPG System.
A different example of the same patch is if someone bought the computer code from the 1980’s video games Pac Man or Centipede and found Pac Man’s Secret Levels on open source…he would own all content.
If that was the game Centipede it’s like the programmer used the code on the board to add a new section that “auto loaded” new levels never discovered with original character from the game…all would be considered official.
The game maps in Centipede and shapes map could have triggered a level update in the new code inserted on the board and dumped it into a new original playable level with official characters on the same screen.
Tens of thousands of official characters could have been auto loaded and the programmer would know how to make Centipede because he made an official patch that unlocked new levels.
He would own those Centipede characters and they would be official and worth millions of dollars.
The same on the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons patch…the new code unlocked at least 500 books worth of material and adventure slots that are official to the game, all the “number slots” for game points for example are revealed to be named like weapon and spell slots for all adventures for over 18 ability scores.
All brand new books for DRAGON ADVENTURES RPG BETA to write on the D20 System for making the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons patch that unlocked the new levels on the abandoned game system for D20 release.
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SAP plans 3.3% price increase as inflation takes toll – Handelsblatt
LINK: https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/09/12/sap-inflation
BERLIN – SAP will increase its prices from the turn of the year due to high inflation, the Handelsblatt business daily reported on Monday, citing a letter from the company to customers.
SAP will charge up to 3.3% more for maintenance of software installations, according to the report.
OPINION: Failed Government Programs Lead To No Change In Police Response
LINK: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/buffalo-mass-shooting-terrorism-charge-1.6474085
OPINION:
Jason MacKenzie – internetnews.press
Another mass shooting in the United States and again we get the same thing, no new government response.
A failed government from a failed country, the economy is all obsolete products, covid based sales market full of scams and poor quality and now this, years of political talk and “gun control” and things have gone backwards.
What have we learned?
The local police can not control every random shooter, politicians running on the platform have totally failed.
Heading out of the 1980’s and 1990’s from political leaders in the Ronald Reagan era we never received much from their successors who left us with no housing marked, no new commercial products, failed computers full of spam that have to update everyday, obsolete products and multiple billing across one service – internet.
I mean how many devices do you need a bill for that only use one service anyway?
Total scam.
The last political group and their financial backers just never got it done, no products or customers in business to back their candidate for political change.
In the end it fell to us, University Graduates with no work to fire them.
As you can see that is what happened, the police just can’t get there every time people – that was the end of thirty years of politics, now it’s finally back to the status quo.
Hopefully in the future new political candidates can run on a platform that is not obsolete so we can have something to buy and vote for with our money, until then we’ll just have to spend it on something different.
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Texas shooting: Police, guns and schools protected from lawsuits
While public outrage grows in the United States over a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas that left 21 dead last week, the victims’ relatives may never get their day in court against police, school authorities and gunmakers who enjoy special legal immunity that may protect them from being sued, according to attorneys.
As in past school shootings, families of the 19 students and two teachers will likely find that any lawsuits will run into legal challenges that do not exist for shootings in the workplace or other private property.
TECH NEWS: Smartphone Industry Pause Leaves Wall Street Shareholders Doubtful
While fans switch to 4K Concert & News Taping on Smartphones for video sharing the industry pauses to consider future plans leaving Wall Street Shareholders doubtful as Sony stated they have no competing industry products in their marketing campaign aimed at selling Smartphones to professionals.
LINK: https://www.engadget.com/the-morning-after-what-is-sonys-smartphone-plan-123003513.html
I’m not sure what’s in Sony’s playbook when it comes to selling its phones in the US. Take the Xperia 5 III. After launching in other regions last year, the phone is only now available stateside for $1,000. This is its middle-ish high-end phone, with the flagship Xperia 1 series of smartphones (seen above) both bigger and pricier.
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LINK: https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/take-prores-video-iphone-13-pro/
Aimed at professionals, the ProRes codec offers higher color fidelity and less compression, and it is often used for commercials, feature films, and TV broadcasts, which is testament to the high quality results that it can achieve.
A one-minute 10-bit HDR ProRes video takes up 1.7GB in HD mode. For that reason, recording ProRes video at 4K at 30 frames per second requires 256, 512, or 1TB of iPhone storage capacity.
In other words, if you have an iPhone 13 Pro or iPhone 13 Pro Max with the base 128GB of storage, you’ll be limited to shooting 1080p ProRes video at 30 frames per second.
SPORTS: Yankees Win AL Wildcard
LINK: https://www.sportsnet.ca/mlb/article/red-sox-beat-yankees-al-wild-card-advance-division-series/
Red Sox beat Yankees in AL wild card, advance to division series
BOSTON (AP) _ As the ball sailed over the center field fence, landing 427 feet from the plate in a horde of happy Red Sox fans, Xander Bogaerts turned to the Boston dugout to flex his muscles before resuming his home run trot.
And the Red Sox were ready.
Bogaerts and Kyle Schwarber homered off Yankees ace Gerrit Cole, and Nathan Eovaldi took a shutout into the sixth inning in the AL wild-card game to help the Red Sox beat New York 6-2 on Tuesday night.
Bogaerts also cut down Aaron Judge at the plate in the sixth as Boston advanced to the best-of-five AL Division Series against the Rays.
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FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — A butt fumble and a butt wipe. Mangled ligaments. A ghost sighting. The return of a villain. Blowouts, lots of blowouts. Tears in the locker room. A regrettable Snapchat in the locker room. An enemy celebration that went long and high into the night, with margaritas, lots of margaritas.
Get ready, America: The New York Jets are back in prime time, which usually means night terrors for the franchise with the NFL’s longest active playoff drought.
HALIFAX: Illegal Pills Seized From Convenience Store
As Canada’s Prime Minister claims there is a “blockage” in the Parliament regulations in Canada remain unchecked.
Male stamina drugs seized from Halifax corner store can be dangerous, expert warns
‘You don’t know what you’re being dispensed,’ doctor says
The seizure of unauthorized erectile dysfunction drugs from a Halifax convenience store has prompted a warning from health officials about the potentially dangerous products.
On Oct. 12, Health Canada issued a safety alert advising that a product called Rush Hour 72 was seized from Convenience 4 U on the Bedford Highway near Larry Uteck Boulevard.
The single-dose pill’s packaging touts “72 hours of stamina” and says it is “100 per cent natural guaranteed.”
Dr. Hali Bauld, the medical director at the Halifax Sexual Health Centre, questions those claims.
“You don’t know what you’re being dispensed,” said Bauld.
“You’re not entirely sure if this is a drug that’s been approved through Health Canada, so that’s the problem.”
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LINK: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-58040799
A man has died and two others are in hospital after taking illegal drugs at a nightclub in north London.
The Met Police said the 21-year-old died in hospital after he was taken unwell at The Cause nightclub in Ashley Road in Tottenham early on Saturday.
His death is being treated as unexplained. The two other men are in a stable condition.
It comes as Bristol City Council warned there was a “lethal” batch of pills circulating in the city.
Montreal Wins Second Place
SPORTS: Montreal wins second place in Stanley Cup Finals.
Emotional Brendan Gallagher says he takes nothing from ‘moral victories’ after Montreal Canadiens’ loss in Stanley Cup Final
TAMPA, Fla. — Brendan Gallagher wore the Montreal Canadiens‘ Stanley Cup Final loss on his face. There were the red welts on his cheeks, battle scars from intense confrontations with the Tampa Bay Lightning through five games. There were his red and puffy eyes, still visible under a pulled-down hat.
“Sorry,” said Gallagher, as one of the team’s most garrulous players searched for words after Montreal’s 1-0 defeat on Wednesday night resulted in a 4-1 series win for Tampa Bay. “It’s hard right now. We’ve got so many players who worked their entire career to get to this point. It’s a tough pill to swallow.”
The Canadiens were the surprise of the Stanley Cup playoffs. They rallied from a 3-1 deficit to eliminate the Toronto Maple Leafs in the opening round of the North Division playoffs. They swept the Winnipeg Jets in the second round. They sent the Vegas Golden Knights home in six games, after the Knights had eliminated the regular season’s best team, the Colorado Avalanche. All of this after Montreal finished with the 18th-best record in the NHL. No one expected much from the Canadiens — expect for the Canadiens.
“I take nothing out of moral victories,” Gallagher said. “At the start of the year when we sat down as a group, our goal was to be here. We expected to be here. Regardless of what people thought of our team, expectations were to win this series.”
The Lightning proved too much in the end. Their victory in Game 5 to claim their second straight Stanley Cup followed a gutsy overtime win by the Canadiens in Montreal to avoid the sweep. But the Canadiens couldn’t buck two playoff trends for Tampa Bay: The Lightning moved to 15-0 over the past two postseasons after a loss; and goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy pitched a shutout for the fifth straight time in a series clincher for the Lightning.
The Canadiens stood and watched Tampa Bay’s players flood the ice as the horn sounded, flinging their sticks and gloves to celebrate the championship.
“It’s not fun to watch someone else do what you want to do. Whether you’re watching on TV or standing on the bench, it’s the same feeling,” Montreal goalie Carey Price said.
Price was the team’s most valuable player through three rounds. He finished the Stanley Cup Final with an .882 save percentage, although he stopped 29 of 30 shots in Game 5.
“I don’t think I played well enough at the start of the series,” Price said when asked what the difference in the series was for Montreal.
Canadiens captain Shea Weber quickly corrected him.
“I don’t think that’s the case at all,” he said. “We weren’t good enough in front of Carey.”
It was just another example of the teamwork that exemplified this run for Montreal.
“There’s a lot more talented teams,” Gallagher said. “There’s no team that’s stronger as a group and with the resiliency that we showed.”
Interim coach Dominique Ducharme thinks the journey to the Final will benefit the Canadiens in the long run.
“We grew as a team a lot. We gotta use that the right way. We want to make it back here,” he said, “but with a different result.”
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There’s three full days of major league baseball this weekend, and on Sunday we get not only the MLB Futures Game but also the 2021 MLB Draft. It’s the most jam-packed few days on the baseball calendar, already an incredibly busy time.
So of course we also have some updated top prospect lists now, too.
Baseball America revamped their top-100 list, and Baseball Prospectus gave us a midseason top 50. Both agree on one thing: Keibert Ruiz is on the rise.
Ruiz is hitting .301/.384/.636 for Triple-A Oklahoma City, good for a 138 wRC+ with more walks (20) than strikeouts (18), while still 11 days shy of his 23rd birthday. The switch-hitter has especially shined as a left-handed batter, hitting .308/.400/.729 with 12 of his 13 home runs in the majors and minors combined.
WEATHER: The Heat Dome Returns This Summer With Record Breaking Temperatures
Editors Note: 46 degrees celisus temperatures we’re assuming took place in the article during the heat dome under wild fire conditions and most of this “heat” captured in the dome was probably from forest fires caused by drying conditions of the heat dome itself.
Heat dome inflates over Western Canada, the harbinger of all-time warmth?
Editor’s note: This article is no longer be updated. Click here for the latest on the potential life-threatening heat wave impacting Western Canada.
A heat dome usually camps in the Four Corners section of the southwestern United States; instead, it will bubble up directly over British Columbia by Saturday — extending into the northern territories and Alberta.
This feature will be particularly perilous because it’s so rare in this part of the world. Sixty per cent of British Columbians do not own an air conditioner in their households.
A heat dome is colloquially known as an intense high-pressure system that features descending air that compresses and warms to record levels at the surface.
These features tend to be cloudless, as well; this setup is an excellent inhibitor for vertical motion that produces clouds in the atmosphere. Heat domes often sniff out regions in drought, and as the old saying goes, drought breeds drought.
Then you get a feedback effect. The warm air gets trapped in the lower elevations, and temperatures can only fall into the 20s at night. The following days can be incrementally toastier.
RELATED: Out camping? Here’s how to safely put out your campfire
LINK: https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/news/article/wildfire-prevention-how-to-put-out-a-campfire
Despite a few setbacks, spring is indeed marching on – to the delight of people drawn to Canada’s wilds for a spot of camping.
But depending on how those proverbial spring showers shake out, the season’s rising temperatures also mean wildfire risk is once again a factor.
That’s where campers come in. While there are few greater joys in life than a good, roaring campfire, they can be a serious wildfire risk if not put out properly (in fact, human-caused wildfires make up more than half of the yearly total).
Watch the video above from Kyle Brittain, The Weather Network’s Alberta correspondent, for tips on how to safely extinguish a campfire.
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OPINION: SAP Failed On Digital Supply Chain
By Jason Mackenzie
Having just released my own digital supply chain model for digital music distribution to my new business I developed based on my previous work with SAP is that the company fell short on career expectations to students and failed on delivering the digital supply chain.
In essence SAP is in reality only a software app that allows for the traditional computers build by Rand Corporation on punch card accounting machines in the 1960’s SAP founded in the 1970’s failed to deliver on their front end system.
Having graduated from St. Francis Xavier University in 2005 and working on Toronto Stock Exchange Companies after 9/11/2001 I feel that SAP just didn’t deliver to students expectations.
It’s like they put in the work order for the finished SAP servers to the students and when they finished their designs there were no jobs.
In an industry filled with triple job sharing and low University exit scores.
Needless to say the work was never sold there, for me a machine made in the 1960’s on punch card tape that can print twelve pages of the phone book per minute is an exceptional machine considering that SAP can’t print any finished pages on their system today.
Riddled with errors and patches SAP quickly began being known as “start adding patches” and died with the lp on the new digital supply chain.
Other services are faster today, why hire a large staff to fill out computer screens for product listings when other companies just lists them right on the store in one interface?
A waste of time obviously, writing everything down twice and long transfer times processing new product listings to store shelves.
Why would they do all that when other companies like Ecwid lists them right on the page?
Being tired of all that and with no University grants I developed my own distribution model from my SAP experience.
It’s the Record Store Listening Station on the Smart Phone.
Then this comes with a shopping cart to sell t-shirts and stickers on the record store on the phone.
I used to run a CD listening station up here in Halifax at CD Plus, all my friends used to stand there all day hanging out and listening to music, so I bought A & A Records url on the phone to load my CD Plus listening station into for my Record Label’s Digital Distribution.
Now we’re running record label press on the blog at A & A Records and streaming Official Digital Albums on the listening post and selling shirts and hats on the shopping cart.
Now fans can hang out at the record store on the smart phone from home and still listen to music with us, we even got shirts down at the back.
I started that to sell my band shirts for my Death Metal band Collapse, we also just bought Bleecker Bob’s in New York for their smart phone url for our other listening station.
They used to be a huge distributor of all major record labels in the 1970’s and 1980’s.
Our new digital listening station is on record store blogs, basically we bought old record label names and converted them to record store blogs…the new digital format!
Now you just go to the record store blog, listen to the official album streams and videos and then slap them $20 right on the post for the t-shirt with your debit chip card just like getting pepsi at the pop machine.
Now artists on the new digital delivery model can take their smart phone right into the crowd at the concert and let fan’s slap them money with their chip cards right on the phone at the concert, then later they’ll get a hat in the mail.
That’s our new digital supply chain delivery system, right from the record studio to the digital listening post at A & A Records with all the record label press loaded on it with a simple click shopping cart on the blog post which is the new listening station.
SAP failed on that one, I’m not sure what they were selling but didn’t have this model.
Digital supply chain distribution to the record store listening station, magazine and shopping cart!
My official comment is this:
“Soon the digital record store blog with shopping cart system will be as common as the mp3.”
This is also functional with digital media gift cards for Spotify, Deezer and Itunes etc.
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How To Address Digital Supply Chain Vulnerabilities
Most organizations do everything they can to manage third-party risks associated with their vendors, agents, resellers and partners. However, a couple of supply chain components are often left unmanaged: software applications a company purchases for use by its employees and third-party code used in applications created in-house. Until now, the digital supply chain was difficult, if not impossible, to monitor for compliance.
Many companies use hundreds or even thousands of these applications — for things like video conferencing, collaboration, enterprise resource planning and personal productivity — as well as so-called second-tier applications that are used by a select number of employees.
Is SAP Part Of The Data Breach?
A first hand account by Jason Mackenzie
Internet Blogger & Death Metal Band
LINK: www.internetnews.press
I have gotten to thinking that my story of the events of the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks I have been blogging about has been coming to a conclusion.
Working in business after 9/11 I am now beginning to think that 9/11 is the server data breach when the World Trade Center fell, when they lost the old computers in New York City with the financial server information on them.
This includes companies like SAP who may have been penetrated with scams after the attacks with other people running their scam servers on Wall Street.
SAP began in 1973 and went public on Wall Street on November 4, 1988 after the development of front end systems such as Windows which allowed previous software systems such as Univac in the 1960’s and 1970’s who ran government software on punch card systems and magnetic punch card tape drives.
In 1971 Xerox left the computer hardware manufacturing industry and hired IBM to switch their computer systems to IBM and part of their compensation for the payment to IBM was for the software migration was the original SAP software which they acquired for a credit of $80,000.
Later The Gazelle System I believe which became Windows was purchased by Microsoft for $50,000.
When the SAP software project was cancelled by IBM several of their engineers decided to leave and start SAP.
SAP the new software ran on the Windows front end which replaced the Univac magnetic punch card tape and punch card system.
Essentially, government computers ran Univac owned by Remmington-Rand Corporation at the time which is the non copyrightable part of SAP because it is University Computer Science work for research labs for companies like Remmington-Rand.
SAP is just the Windows software patch on the front end today.
An even worse event than 9/11 was several years earlier with the burning of the South Bronx in New York City.
Now I am thinking that this could also have been a data breach in the 1970’s during the Univac period when government computers could have been stolen during the burning of the South Bronx.
Conspiracy theorists note…the Bin Laden family was one of the contractors who rebuilt the South Bronx and the Projects in the 1980’s in New York City.
Later the construction team was linked to the 9/11 Terrorists attacks at the old World Trade Center.
All signs that both events are part of the data breach South Bronx and 9/11, when scams penetrated government computers from all over the world during the outages.
SAP R/3 launched in 1992 and I began University in 2001, my first week of University was the 9/11 Terrorist attacks in New York City and is the Class Of 2005 grad year.
In University I did all my work on SAP and Project Management and began doing my certifications in 2005 after graduation, by the time I finished my certifications in 2008 I was assaulted for my projects on a Toronto Stock Market Company and had to quit and turn them into the SEC.
Now I think the scam I was assaulted by was also part of the data breaches I mentioned above.
After this I was illegally evicted from my house with fake court papers which were thrown out and wrongfully arrested, during my arrest my house was robbed and I had to move.
I won in court and now they all owe me a settlement for home invasion on the stock market to steal my SAP Server work and wrongful arrest.
Now apparently they are saying that SAP is still not finished and projects like mine which were ahead of them have left the industry.
It looks like today after the events of the burning of the South Bronx and the 9/11 terrorist attacks that the government and business computers were breached and filled full of scams.
Then they put the work order out to the Universities like Harvard and St. Francis Xavier saying $150,000 salaries to build a $150,000,000 computer system and they didn’t have the money to pay the grads.
Now it all just looks like a scam and the main software is Remmington-Rand anyway from the old Univac System which also ran on Battleships in World War Two.
Leading to more example that the attacks on the South Bronx and World Trade Center could have been targeting Remmington-Rand Univac Systems and used that and the development of SAP after the Data Breaches.
Right now the Data Breach is so bad in Halifax that they are making you get lawyers to file free forms for file corrections and refuse to take them in front of lawyers.
Now I have taken this issue as a complaint and information to my local Halifax Senator and Speaker of the Floor in Ottawa and copied the news about the issue so they can know what is happening.
Hopefully the Senators and the News here in Canada will help to speed some of this up and clear up some of these issues.
At Legal Aid in Halifax they told me they couldn’t help me with these issues and advised me to contact the local government because it was beyond their scope, which I decided not to because that is who I am suing and instead I took it too the local Halifax Senator and Speaker Of The Floor in Ottawa with the News so hopefully they can resolve it.
So to me this story seems to look like it’s starting to wrap up now with the impact of how the attacks on the South Bronx and 9/11 are affecting us today during those potential data breaches.
RELATED: LA WEEKLY – Did Grindcore Legends Terrorizer Rip Off an Unknown Canadian Band?
Grindcore band Terrorizer formed here, and their 1989 debut World Downfall was extremely influential. After 2006’s reunion album Darker Days Ahead guitarist Jesse Pintado passed away, but the rest of Terrorizer has a new album, Hordes Of Zombies, out February 28th.
Now weirdly, and out of nowhere, an unknown Canadian grindcore group called Collapse has filed is threatening to file a plagiarism lawsuit against them and their label, Season of Mist, claiming a passage in Terrorizer’s song “Subterfuge” is lifted from a Collapse song titled “Mechanisms Of Oppression.” We call bullshit.
First off, Collapse’s guitarist/vocalist Jason McKenzie has been sending around press releases, claiming that if the release of Terrorizer’s new album isn’t canceled, they’ll sue. It reeks of a publicity stunt; still, that in itself doesn’t mean there isn’t validity to their claims.
Exploring The Grand Canyon From Home
With the Grand Canyon National Park testing the first phases of reopening, access to the vast network of canyon trails and park amenities remain mostly off-limits. But behind the scenes, the folks at the Grand Canyon Conservancy (the official nonprofit partner of the Grand Canyon National Park) have been hard at work thinking up ways to keep the public connected to our state’s most prized natural treasure.
“We were looking for things to do during the shutdown—how could we bring the park to them? There were videos and there was web content that we wanted to do, but being a nonprofit it’s hard because those things take time and money,” Mindy Riesenberg, director of marketing and communications for the Grand Canyon Conservancy, said.
Enter the Arizona Lottery. Originally committed to sponsoring scholarships for the Canyon Field School before it was canceled due to the pandemic, the state lottery stepped up and donated $50,000 to the conservancy to help make its virtual dreams a reality.
As a result of the donation, GCC has been able to launch a 20-episode web series, Grand Canyon Moments, which explores the geology and history of the park, inviting astronomers, tribal elders and other experts to share their expertise in the two- to three-minute vignettes.
“This generous gift from the Arizona Lottery will allow Grand Canyon Conservancy to bring Grand Canyon National Park to those who have been to the park before and are longing for another trip and those who have always wanted to visit,” Theresa McMullan, GCC’s chief executive officer, said in a press release. “Grand Canyon Moments is a way for us to provide education about the canyon’s rich natural and cultural history while the park is closed and will continue to be an educational resource after it reopens .”
Over the past 40 years, the Arizona Lottery has donated more than 4.2 billion dollars toward education, environmental conservation and other public service organizations within the state.
“The Arizona Lottery has been funding efforts to preserve Arizona’s unique wildlife and landscapes, through the Heritage Fund, for over a quarter century. There is no landscape more iconic to Arizona than the Grand Canyon,” Arizona Lottery Executive Director Gregg Edgar said. “By sponsoring this video series, Arizonans of all ages will learn more about the Grand Canyon, developing within them a deeper appreciation for this natural wonder of the world and a desire to protect it for generations to come.”
Grand Canyon Moments features an original score by musicians Alexis Marsh and Samuel Jones. The web series is being produced by Bristlecone Media’s Ryan Christensen in collaboration with the conservancy’s own Riesenberg.
“I knew Ryan and I knew I could trust him. Since I have a background in documentary film, I’d worked with him on the Grand Canyon In Depth nine-part series and a video about the Desert View Watchtower and the preservation of the murals there,” Riesenberg said.
The first three episodes of Grand Canyon Moments have already aired, featuring dark skies with astronomer Tyler Nordgren; Ribbon Falls with Octavius Seowtewa, head medicine man for the Zuni tribe; and an episode on the canyon’s many springs with Museum of Northern Arizona curator Dr. Larry Stevens.
“This has been a blessing in disguise for our marketing team,” Riesenberg said. “It has really allowed us to show what we can bring to the table. It gave us a chance to do the things we had always wanted to do yet had kept on the back burner.”
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National Parks Reopen, What You Need To Know
LINK: https://globalnews.ca/news/6991886/coronavirus-saskatchewan-national-parks/
The Canadian government has given the green light for national parks to reopen as of June 1.
Restrictions at these sites have been put in place as the country continues to navigate the coronavirus pandemic.
Here is what to expect when visiting national parks in Saskatchewan.
Fort Battleford National Historic Site – Battleford, Sask.
What’s open
Visitors will have access to the parking lot, green spaces and the inside of the fort stockade.
What’s closed
Historic buildings, the visitor centre, washrooms, and food and water services are closed. Group activities and public events are suspended until further notice.
READ MORE: Camping in Saskatchewan to look different under first phase of reopen plan
Prince Albert National Park – Waskesiu, Sask.
What’s open
Motorized vehicle access to all park roads (excluding Kingsmere Road past the Hanging Heart Lakes turnoff), park entrance gate kiosks for information only, the small beach house washroom by the community hall, most day-use trails, most day-use areas and beaches, including outhouses, are open.
Non-motorized recreational use on Waskesiu Lake and River, Hanging Heart Lakes, Amiskowan, Shady Lake and Spruce River is also allowed along with recreational boating on Waskesiu Lake and Hanging Heart Lakes. Fishing is available on Waskesiu Lake, Hanging Heart Lakes (second and third lakes only) and Shady Lake.
More Snow Coming To Halifax Thursday
LINK: https://www.halifaxtoday.ca/local-news/more-snow-coming-to-halifax-thursday-2088482
As public school students enjoy a snow day Wednesday, another low pressure system is on the way.
A special weather statement remains in effect and Environment Canada is calling for between 10 and 15 cm of snow to fall Thursday.
CONTINUE READING AT HALIFAX TODAY
RELATED: Council to consider Dartmouth splash pad proposal
People may soon have a new place to cool off on hot summer days as municipal staff are recommending the construction of a splash pad on the Dartmouth Commons.
The proposed project is estimated to cost $650,000 with the community group Friends of the Dartmouth Splash Pad planning to raise $150,000.
LINK:https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/splash-pad-dartmouth-common-proposal-1.5457646
January 21st Is Squirrel Appreciation Day
LINK: https://www.wxpr.org/post/squirrels-and-holiday-lights#stream/0
Have you had an increase in trouble with squirrels chewing on your holiday lights? The Masked Biologist has, as he shares in this week’s Wildlife Matters.
We are one of those families that enjoys putting up lights and decorations for Christmas; well actually, for the holiday season in general. This includes putting exterior lights out on the house, the deck, and sometimes part of the fence. A couple of years ago, we experienced a problem we had not experienced previously. It was our first year with the newer energy efficient light bulbs, and shortly after hanging them we discovered that squirrels were chewing them up. Not just one squirrel chewing through one wire in one spot, either. They chewed the wires into pieces, and chewed some of the bulbs and sockets out of the string.
Like I said, this had never happened before. So why now? What changed? My theory was straightforward—the squirrels thought that the lights were acorns, and were harvesting them to cache for the winter. The lights were actually sort of acorn-shaped, with a crisscross pattern on them, but they were clear. Still, if they were convinced it was some kind of fruit or nut and wanted to cache them, it wasn’t an outlandish thought. They spend all fall chewing through the branches of my oak tree to drop acorns, after all.
So I spliced and taped up the wires, whenever necessary, and decided we would just need to replace them again the following season. Then I heard that our new Lights of the Northwoods display was having similar problems with cut wires. At first they blamed vandals, but then they came back and said some of it could have been squirrel activity. Again, not a real big surprise. First, the lights weren’t there, in the park, then they were everywhere. The squirrels may have thought it was a fresh food source and went to town wreaking havoc on the defenseless light display.
Lights of the Northwoods continues, even today, to deal with senseless vandalism from humans and from squirrels. One potential explanation I heard was that the new insulating wire coatings are not straight plastic, but soy-based, and the squirrels like the taste. This could be; maybe my old Christmas lights were unpalatable boring old plastic, but the new soft soybean flavored wires are terrific. I can’t say for sure. If this is the problem, then the solution would be to change the flavor, right? A search online recommends trying a couple different ideas of things that don’t taste very good, at least to squirrels, like pepper spray or that strong mint-flavored antiseptic mouthwash that was originally developed to clean floors. Of course, the problem there is every time it rains you’d need to reapply the deterrent. I might suggest you try something that is petroleum-based and consequently would not wash off. I had someone tell me once that what works well on bird feeders is Vicks Vapo-rub™ which is petroleum based and has strong ingredients like camphor, eucalyptus oil, and menthol. i was going to try it on some of my lights this year, but so far the squirrels seem more interested in picking up the acorns that have dropped and are still dropping from my oak tree, so maybe I’m okay. actually, another possible explanation might be that the quick onset of snow changed their foraging behavior. If the ground was still uncovered, they might be more likely to keep harvesting and stashing food.
A quick online search also turned up a new product, outdoor holiday lights that claim to have solved the problem of squirrel chewing. Their website says that the coating is flavored to discourage rodent chew. If this is true, a solution might be just around the corner as other companies consider addressing the issue in order to stay competitive. Until then, your options seem limited – either change the taste of the lights or reduce the number of squirrels in your yard. Or don’t put out lights, I guess – but what fun would that be?
RELATED: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200120113426.htm
Strongly ‘handed’ squirrels less good at learning
Squirrels that strongly favour their left or right side are less good at learning, new research suggests.
Just as humans are usually left- or right-handed, many animals favour one side of their body for certain tasks.
The strength of this preference varies, with some individuals happy to use either side, while others strongly favour one side (known as being strongly “lateralised”).
The University of Exeter study found that grey squirrels which strongly favoured a side did less well on a learning task. They had to learn to use a paw, rather than their mouth, to get nuts.
“It has been suggested that being strongly lateralised makes brains more efficient, with each hemisphere focussing on different tasks,” said Dr Lisa Leaver.
“This could help animals survive, which would explain the evolution of laterality across the animal kingdom.
Extreme Snowfall In British Columbia
Wintry conditions continue to plague B.C. after week of extreme cold, snow
After a week of winter weather that walloped much of B.C., some parts of the province are getting a reprieve — others, not so much.
A snowfall warning is in effect for the Fraser Canyon, with 10 to 20 centimetres expected. Freezing rain is expected on the Coquihalla Highway between Hope and Merritt, and for Highway 3 from Hope to Princeton.
A winter storm warning is in effect for the Fraser Valley, including Chilliwack, Hope and Abbotsford.
Total snowfall accumulations could range from five to 10 centimetres. As conditions warm up, that snow could transition from snow, to freezing rain, and then to rain.
A wind warning is in effect for Greater Victoria, North Vancouver Island, and the Southern Gulf Islands, with southeastern gusts of 60 to 80 kilometres per hour expected. Thousands on Vancouver Island are currently without power as a result of the windy conditions.
A winter storm warning is also in effect for east Vancouver Island, from Courtenay to Campbell River, Duncan to Nanaimo, and Nanoose Bay to Fanny Bay. Heavy, wet snow is expected to turn to rain early on Saturday.
A winter storm warning is in effect for the Sea to Sky from Squamish to Whistler, bringing a mix of weather from heavy snow, to freezing rain, and blowing snow. Squamish could get up to 20 centimetres of snow.
Environment Canada is urging people to consider postponing non-essential travel until conditions improve.
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Extreme snowfall hits New Foundland:
Armed Forces to help Newfoundland residents after province records unprecedented levels of snow
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — Armed Forces personnel were deployed Sunday to help Newfoundland and Labrador dig out from the monster blizzard that paralyzed eastern regions of the province with record breaking amounts of snow, as forecasts called for yet more precipitation overnight.
Premier Dwight Ball asked for Ottawa’s help on Saturday, as residents of St. John’s and other communities on the Avalon Peninsula awoke to drifts that blocked doorways and clogged roads.
Through the weekend, neighbours worked to help one another unbury their vehicles and homes, and to locate necessities ranging from prescription medicines to gasoline.
Heat Dome Engulfs Europe, Spreading To Canada
The Heatwave in Europe caused by a large “Heat Dome” is also spreading to Canada and causing a massive heat wave.
LINK: https://www.sciencealert.com/in-europe-a-historic-heat-wave-is-shattering-records-with-ease
A Giant ‘Heat Dome’ Over Europe Is Smashing Temperature Records, And It’s on The Move
ANDREW FREEDMAN, THE WASHINGTON POST
A historic heat wave is bringing unprecedented temperatures to Western Europe, and is poised to expand northeastward to Scandinavia and into the Arctic by late this weekend.
Once above the Arctic Circle, the weather system responsible for this heat wave could accelerate the loss of sea ice, which is already running at a record low for this time of year.
First, residents of Paris, London, Brussels, Amsterdam, Munich, Zurich and other locations are suffering through dangerously high temperatures on Wednesday and Thursday.
Already on Wednesday, all-time national heat records in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany had fallen, right on the heels of a late June heat wave that broke similar records in France and other countries.
The German meteorological agency noted that Wednesday’s national record of 104.9 degrees Fahrenheit (40.5 Celsius) may last just a day before being broken on Thursday.
It’s difficult to beat all-time heat records in mid-July, considering this is the hottest time of year. It’s even more unusual to beat these records by a large margin, which is what is occurring now.
For example, Paris is likely to exceed 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.8 Celsius) on Wednesday by a few degrees, and break its all-time high temperature record of 104.7 degrees Fahrenheit (40.4 Celsius) by up to 3 degrees Fahrenheit on Thursday, with a forecast high of 108 Fahrenheit (42.2 Celsius).
The city’s all-time high temperature record has stood since 1947.
Multiple all-time records were set elsewhere in France on Tuesday, both for daytime highs and hot nighttime low temperatures.
The UK Met Office is predicting that the country’s all-time national heat record of 101.3 degrees Fahrenheit (38.5 Celsius) will be broken Thursday.
In addition, national heat records in Germany, where the mark to beat is 104.5 degrees Fahrenheit (40.3 degrees), could be set this week as well.
Heat of this intensity constitutes a significant public health threat, particularly for vulnerable populations like outdoor workers, the elderly, young children, those with compromised immune systems and anyone lacking the means to cool down.
In most of the cities currently affected, people lack air conditioning at home and in many public buildings and transit systems.
There have been 15 heatstroke deaths of children left in hot cars in 2019. And it’s not even July.
Fifteen children have died from heatstroke in the USA this year as a result of being left in hot cars – and it’s not even July.
Three of the deaths occurred since last Saturday, and extreme heat is likely in the South and parts of the Midwest on Sunday heading into the Fourth of July.
The latest hot car death came Thursday evening in Morristown, Tennessee, when a 3-year-old boy was found in a minivan after he had been reported missing since 4 p.m. The temperature had reached 90 degrees.
“Officers found the child deceased on the floorboard of a minivan that was parked on the property,” the city of Morristown wrote in a statement on Facebook. “Investigators believe, at this time, the child entered the vehicle without anyone knowing and became trapped.”
Black Hole Photos Revealed
The world’s first picture of a black hole captured imaginations around the globe. Now comes the next challenge for scientists: taking better, sharper photos, in hopes that they will be able to test Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity. To get there, they want two or three satellites orbiting the planet looking for black holes.
The scientists are calling their creation the Event Horizon Imager (EHI).
Link: https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/deep-space/a27397224/future-black-hole-photos/
“There are lots of advantages to using satellites instead of permanent radio telescopes on Earth, as with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) [the consortium that captured the first image of a black hole],” says Freek Roelofs, a Ph.D. candidate at Radboud University and the lead author of the article proposing the idea, in a press statement.
“In space, you can make observations at higher radio frequencies, because from Earth these are filtered out by the atmosphere,” Roelofs says. “The distances between the telescopes in space are also larger. This allows us to take a big step forward. We would be able to take images with a resolution more than five times what is possible with the EHT.”
While the original black hole photos proved, as radio satellites had done years prior, that black holes exist, scientists are eager to dive into the details. Even the smallest unexpected discovery could have cosmic repercussions.
“The fact that the satellites are moving round the Earth makes for considerable advantages,” Radio Astronomy Professor Heino Falcke says in the statement. “With them, you can take near perfect images to see the real details of black holes. If small deviations from Einstein’s theory occur, we should be able to see them.”
The scientists proposing the EHI have five particular black holes in mind, each smaller than the one at the center of the galaxy known as Messier 87, home of the original black hole picture. The EHI system would be able to capture the bigger black holes like M87 or Sagittarius A at the center of the Milky Way, while also looking at smaller black holes.
Of course, it took years of work and collaboration across the globe to capture the first image of a black hole. A second system of picture-taking will likely take a long time as well. “The simulations look promising from a scientific aspect, but there are difficulties to overcome at a technical level,” Roelofs says.
Scientists worked with the European Space Agency (ESA) t0 make sure the idea was possible.
“The concept demands that you must be able to ascertain the position and speed of the satellites very accurately,” according to Volodymyr Kudriashov, a researcher at the Radboud Radio Lab who also works at ESA/ESTEC. “But we really believe that the project is feasible.”
One of the biggest challenges could be sharing data between the satellites. “With the EHT, hard drives with data are transported to the processing centre by airplane,” Kudriashov says. “That’s of course not possible in space.”
That’s why the team is proposing a laser link, with data partially processed on board prior to continued study on the home world. It would be similar to the laser links used to monitor Earth-observing satellites used by the European Data Relay System.
“There are already laser links in space,” Kudriashov points out.
Scientists looking to build on the data from the EHT also say a hybrid system might work, with the orbiting telescopes joining the eight powerful telescopes on Earth that worked together for the iconic image.
“Using a hybrid like this could provide the possibility of creating moving images of a black hole, and you might be able to observe even more and also weaker sources,” Falcke says.
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Event Horizon Telescope releases first ever black hole image
On Wednesday, astronomers revealed the first image ever taken of a black hole, bringing a dramatic conclusion to a decades-long effort. The iconic image offers humanity its first glimpse at the gas and debris that swirl around its event horizon, the point beyond which material disappears forever. A favorite object of science fiction has finally been made real on screen.
Their target was a nearby galaxy dubbed M87 and its supermassive black hole, which packs the mass of six and half billion suns. Despite its size, the black hole is so far from Earth – 53 million light-years – that capturing the image took a telescope the size of the planet.
This monumental accomplishment was only possible thanks to the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). The image data was taken back in 2017 but scientists have spent two years piecing it together. That’s because EHT is made of up eight independent observatories that are scattered across the globe, cooperating together to act as one enormous detector. Shep Doeleman, director of the EHT, announced at today’s press event, “We are delighted to report to you today that we have seen what we thought was unseeable.” Researchers made their grand announcement simultaneously in seven different countries this morning, accompanied by a series of scientific papers published at the same time in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
An impossible black hole image
Black holes are so massive and dense, not even light can escape their pull. They’re often referred to as a singularity, or a point source, because they take up zero actual space. But this mysterious singularity is surrounded by the sphere of its event horizon. And anything that travels past it is doomed to fall into the black hole, with no hope of escape. That means the black hole itself is literally dark – it neither reflects nor gives off any light. So there’s nothing to photograph, no matter how advanced the technology. In the Event Horizon Telescope’s image, it simply appears as a central dark blob, or what astronomers often call the black hole’s “shadow.”
Continue Reading: www.astronomy.com
http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/04/event-horizon-telescope-releases-first-ever-black-hole-image
HIV Cured By Stem Cell Transplant
Two patients Cured of HIV with Stem Cell Transplant
HIV patient seemingly cured in second remarkable case, London doctors report
A patient in London is HIV-free, doctors announced this week in what appears to be an astounding case.
A patient who was diagnosed with HIV in 2003 has become the second patient ever known to be cured of the infection that affects close to 37 million people worldwide after receiving a bone marrow transplant intended to treat cancer, doctors say. The patient received the stem cell transplant from a donor with a rare CCR5 mutation that allows HIV resistance in May of 2016 to treat his Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
The London patient, who is remaining anonymous, also underwent chemotherapy. He took antiretroviral therapy drugs for HIV until September of 2017, doctors say. His drug regiment was much less harsh than the only other known patient who was cured of HIV.
He has been HIV-free, in remission, for 18 months, according to tests.
In a research letter set to publish Tuesday in the peer-reviewed journal Nature, doctors who treated him say this proves that the Berlin patient cured of HIV in 2007 wasn’t an anomaly and HIV remission is possible.
“Everybody believed after the Berlin patient that you needed to nearly die basically to cure HIV, but now maybe you don’t,” said Dr. Ravindra Gupta, a virologist at University College London who presented the findings at a conference in Seattle, The New York Times reports.
The first patient to be cured of HIV, Berlin patient Timothy Ray Brown, underwent two bone-marrow transplants also for cancer treatments, took a cocktail of drugs and experienced serious complications that put his life in danger. At one point, doctors induced a coma. He survived the ordeal, coming out of it without HIV. Over a decade later, he is still considered cured. Treatments that have tried to replicate Brown’s result in other HIV patients have failed, until now.
Gupta’s team says the London patient’s treatment isn’t conventional for all HIV patients, but does offer hope for future HIV and AIDS treatments.
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HIV Hiding in Cells Can Now Be Measured, But Are We Closer to a Cure?
The road to a cure for HIV is long, winding, and with no definite end in sight.
That said, a new study published last month in the journal Nature is shedding light on a way to measure what is considered an inactive form of the virus that rests hidden in people’s cells.
This so-called “latent reservoir” of HIV has stood as a roadblock to eradicating the virus, stubbornly staying put despite being attacked by increasingly sophisticated antiretroviral drugs used to treat the virus.
For researchers in the HIV cure field, this new technique is a significant development because it offers a clearer look at how to pinpoint this viral reserve.
Why is this important?
Past tools are said to have greatly overestimated how much of this under-the-radar cache of virus existed in any given cell.
Now, measuring the reservoir to see how it responds to experimental therapies may be less of a shot in the dark.
LINK: https://www.healthline.com/health-news/hiv-hidden-in-patients-cells-can-now-be-accurately-measured
President Trump Delays State Of The Union Address, Reschedules
President Trump has given into pressure and rescheduled the State of the Union Address until today, also caving on border wall funding talks to temporarily reopen United States Government.
Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46983349
US President Donald Trump says he will not deliver his annual State of the Union speech until after the government shutdown is over.
On Wednesday House Speaker Nancy Pelosi withdrew an invitation for him to address Congress, saying government services should fully reopen first.
The shutdown has left 800,000 federal staff without pay since 22 December.
Mr Trump wants $5.7bn (£4.4bn) to build a wall on the US-Mexico border, but newly empowered Democrats have refused.
The row over border security has led to the longest government shutdown in US history.
What did Mr Trump say?
Having initially said the speech should be “on time, on schedule, and very importantly, on location”, he conceded overnight that he could not deliver on his pledge.
He acknowledged on Twitter Mrs Pelosi’s refusal to allow Congress to host the State of the Union address until the shutdown – now in its 34th day – had been resolved.
“This is her prerogative,” he said, adding that he was no longer looking for an alternative venue but looked forward to making the speech in the near future.
Mrs Pelosi responded with her own tweet saying she hoped Mr Trump would back a bill passed by the House of Representatives to fund the agencies affected by the shutdown.
Link: BBC News – https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46983349
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President Trump To Deliver State Of The Union Address During Temporary Government Opening
WASHINGTON – It’s the speech that almost didn’t happen.
President Donald Trump will deliver the annual State of the Union address Tuesday – not in writing, not in an alternate location, but in the House chamber before a joint session of Congress, just as other presidents before him have done for more than 100 years.
But he almost didn’t.
A government shutdown and a fight with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi almost halted the annual ritual this year.
LINK: USA TODAY
Buy Canada trade comes roaring back as oil, Fed ignite rally
Link: www.bnnbloomberg.ca
Buy Canada trade comes roaring back as oil, Fed ignite rally
Canadian investors are finding themselves in an unusual position — outperforming their U.S. counterparts across all three main asset classes as conciliatory central banks reignite risk in global markets.
Canada’s benchmark S&P/TSX Composite index has surged 8.5 per cent this year, second-best among developed markets and ahead of the S&P 500’s 7.6 per cent rise. The Bloomberg Barclays Canada Aggregate bond index is up 0.75 per cent compared with 0.53 percent for the U.S. And the loonie is the best-performing currency among its Group of 10 peers, vaulting 3.9 per cent higher to $1.3132 per U.S. dollar this year.
“The most powerful thing has been the change in tone coming from global central bankers and particularly those in North America,” said Kurt Reiman, chief investment strategist at BlackRock Canada, adding markets also seem to be less worried about geopolitical risks.
Canadian investors aren’t used to being in the limelight. Annual returns on Canadian equities have lagged the U.S. by about 5.8 percentage points for the past 10 years while the loonie has sunk about 6.5 per cent against its U.S. counterpart over that time frame.
But confronted with slowing growth, tame inflation and volatile markets at the end of last year, central bankers have changed their tune. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell signaled on Wednesday that the U.S. central bank is done raising interest rates for a while and it will be flexible in reducing its bond holdings.
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