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deftswerve · 2 years

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Webb Inspects the Heart of the Phantom Galaxy <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/">by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope</a> Via Flickr: This image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows the heart of M74, otherwise known as the Phantom Galaxy. Webb’s sharp vision has revealed delicate filaments of gas and dust in the grandiose spiral arms which wind outwards from the centre of this image. A lack of gas in the nuclear region also provides an unobscured view of the nuclear star cluster at the galaxy's centre.

M74 is a particular class of spiral galaxy known as a ‘grand design spiral’, meaning that its spiral arms are prominent and well-defined, unlike the patchy and ragged structure seen in some spiral galaxies. The Phantom Galaxy is around 32 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Pisces, and lies almost face-on to Earth. This, coupled with its well-defined spiral arms, makes it a favorite target for astronomers studying the origin and structure of galactic spirals.

Webb gazed into M74 with its Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) in order to learn more about the earliest phases of star formation in the local Universe. These observations are part of a larger effort to chart 19 nearby star-forming galaxies in the infrared by the international PHANGS collaboration. Those galaxies have already been observed using the Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based observatories. The addition of crystal-clear Webb observations at longer wavelengths will allow astronomers to pinpoint star-forming regions in the galaxies, accurately measure the masses and ages of star clusters, and gain insights into the nature of the small grains of dust drifting in interstellar space.

Hubble observations of M74 have revealed particularly bright areas of star formation known as HII regions. Hubble’s sharp vision at ultraviolet and visible wavelengths complements Webb’s unparalleled sensitivity at infrared wavelengths, as do observations from ground-based radio telescopes such as the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, ALMA. By combining data from telescopes operating across the electromagnetic spectrum, scientists can gain greater insight into astronomical objects than by using a single observatory — even one as powerful as Webb! MIRI was contributed by ESA and NASA, with the instrument designed and built by a consortium of nationally funded European Institutes (the MIRI European Consortium) in partnership with JPL and the University of Arizona.

This image was processed by ESA.

Read more: esawebb.org/images/potm2208a/

Image credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-JWST Team. Acknowledgement: J. Schmidt

Image description:

Delicate gray, webby filaments form a spiral pattern winding outwards from the center of the galaxy. These spiral arms of the galaxy are traced by blue and bursts of pink; these are the regions in which stars are forming. The very heart of the galaxy is colored blue and has speckles, which are young stars, which are forming around the nucleus of the galaxy.

#jwst #webb #james webb space telescope #hubble #flickr

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star-dust-n-astral-wind · 6 months

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A Theory On The Puppet's Identity

Getting out way ahead of this one, because I think I already figured it out.

The Five Nights At Freddy's film follows a loose outline of the game's canon. Abby (an anagram of Baby) nearly gets put into the stomach of a clown-like animatronic, Mike's motivation is the loss of his brother (per Foxy-Bro theory), Vanessa is a "Reluctant Follower", and so on.

Another quick stop before the meat of this theory is the FNAF 2 minigame "Take Cake To Children", because it has something else that you may remember: the Puppet speaking, saying "S-A-V-E-H-I-M." This is very much the same to the closing moments of the film's credits, wherein we hear the Puppet's voice asking that someone "C... O... M... E... F... I... N... D... M... E..."

So, who do I think the Puppet is? Garret Schmidt.

Okay, bit of a stretch, but hear me out.

We know that Garret is taken by William Afton some years before the events of the film. We also know that Afton killed him ("First I kill your brother, then I kill you. It's like symmetry, my friend."), but we're a bit lacking in the details of the event itself.

There's no mention of Garret ever being found, not even his body. Well, the other victims of Afton that were never found were in the animatronics, so... why not again? Or rather: why not first?

Allow me to paint a picture: William Afton kidnaps and kills Garret Schmidt for reasons unknown, takes him to some distant location (possibly a branch of Freddy's located in Nebraska), and kills him. But it doesn't stick. The nearby security puppet (brand new technology designed by William himself) starts acting up shortly after the boy died. It doesn't take him long to work it out, to figure out that the kid's soul is now inhabiting the puppet.

This leads into the events we know of before the film, with him claiming the five victims that inhabit the animatronics. It also explains his control over them and his apparent assurance that he'll return from death: he's studied this phenomenon already when the Puppet got possessed, and again when he killed the other five kids.

But why Garret, why not someone else? Well, a few reasons.

Firstly: while it may just be him removing mention of Henry's contributions, both William himself and the training tape say "the owner of Freddy's", singular. So it's unlikely that Henry and Charlie are around to play their parts in this event.

Secondly, and more importantly: it would fit Mike's arc.

Assuming that Mike returns as our protagonist next time (maybe hunting down rumours about other Freddy's, trying to unravel the mystery?), then it's really the most logical choice to have it be Garret. After a lifetime of obsession, Mike has finally found peace with the past, has realised the importance of the present, and has really settled into being a guardian to Abby for the future. He's put it to rest, and accepted that he has the answers he's always wanted.

So what better time for the past to come knocking? Or, more accurately, what better time for the Puppet to ask that someone "COME FIND ME"?

If it is Garret, then maybe he's angry and bitter ("Oh, you could save her!"), or he could be happier about it ("At least you saved her."), or perhaps even just resigned ("You really think he's dead?"). Despite all his progress, despite how much effort he's put into letting the past stay in the past, it's come back to haunt him in a very literal way.

How does he react when the object of his obsession is really here and truly in front of him?

We'd also get some other interesting interactions with this, such as Abby meeting her brother, or Vanessa apologising for any role she may have played in Garret's murder.

So yeah, I'm putting my money on "Garret is the Puppet". Largely because I think it makes logical sense from an in universe perspective for it to be him, and also because I feel it would be the most emotional option for our (potential) protagonist.

#fnaf movie spoilers #fnaf movie #fnaf #stardust rambles #theory #“COME FIND ME” may be a phone call to Mike that kicks off everything?#Or could be taunting Afton (if he's escaped from Goldie)?

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compneuropapers · 1 year

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Interesting Papers for Week 2, 2023

Sensory Evidence Accumulation Using Optic Flow in a Naturalistic Navigation Task. Alefantis, P., Lakshminarasimhan, K., Avila, E., Noel, J.-P., Pitkow, X., & Angelaki, D. E. (2022). Journal of Neuroscience, 42(27), 5451–5462.

Cognitive experience alters cortical involvement in goal-directed navigation. Arlt, C., Barroso-Luque, R., Kira, S., Bruno, C. A., Xia, N., Chettih, S. N., … Harvey, C. D. (2022). eLife, 11, e76051.

Fast and slow contributions to decision-making in corticostriatal circuits. Balewski, Z. Z., Knudsen, E. B., & Wallis, J. D. (2022). Neuron, 110(13), 2170-2182.e4.

Neuromodulatory Mechanisms Underlying Contrast Gain Control in Mouse Auditory Cortex. Cody, P. A., & Tzounopoulos, T. (2022). Journal of Neuroscience, 42(28), 5564–5579.

Widespread implementations of interactive social gaze neurons in the primate prefrontal-amygdala networks. Dal Monte, O., Fan, S., Fagan, N. A., Chu, C.-C. J., Zhou, M. B., Putnam, P. T., … Chang, S. W. C. (2022). Neuron, 110(13), 2183-2197.e7.

Clustering and the efficient use of cognitive resources. Dasgupta, I., & Griffiths, T. L. (2022). Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 109, 102675.

Widespread ripples synchronize human cortical activity during sleep, waking, and memory recall. Dickey, C. W., Verzhbinsky, I. A., Jiang, X., Rosen, B. Q., Kajfez, S., Stedelin, B., … Halgren, E. (2022). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(28), e2107797119.

Human muscle spindles are wired to function as controllable signal-processing devices. Dimitriou, M. (2022). eLife, 11, e78091.

Prior actions influence cost–benefit‐related decision‐making during mouse foraging behaviours. Dylda, E., & Wang, K. H. (2022). European Journal of Neuroscience, 56(2), 3861–3874.

Model Sharing in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe. Glitz, L., Juechems, K., Summerfield, C., & Garrett, N. (2022). Journal of Neuroscience, 42(27), 5410–5426.

Serial dependence for oculomotor control depends on early sensory signals. Goettker, A., & Stewart, E. E. M. (2022). Current Biology, 32(13), 2956-2961.e3.

A synaptic signal for novelty processing in the hippocampus. Gómez-Ocádiz, R., Trippa, M., Zhang, C.-L., Posani, L., Cocco, S., Monasson, R., & Schmidt-Hieber, C. (2022). Nature Communications, 13, 4122.

Coevolution of motor cortex and behavioral specializations associated with flight and echolocation in bats. Halley, A. C., Baldwin, M. K. L., Cooke, D. F., Englund, M., Pineda, C. R., Schmid, T., … Krubitzer, L. (2022). Current Biology, 32(13), 2935-2941.e3.

Visual timing-tuned responses in human association cortices and response dynamics in early visual cortex. Hendrikx, E., Paul, J. M., van Ackooij, M., van der Stoep, N., & Harvey, B. M. (2022). Nature Communications, 13, 3952.

Functionally specific and sparse domain-based micro-networks in monkey V1 and V2. Hu, J. M., & Roe, A. W. (2022). Current Biology, 32(13), 2797-2809.e3.

Sigma oscillations protect or reinstate motor memory depending on their temporal coordination with slow waves. Nicolas, J., King, B. R., Levesque, D., Lazzouni, L., Coffey, E., Swinnen, S., … Albouy, G. (2022). eLife, 11, e73930.

Neurogliaform cells dynamically decouple neuronal synchrony between brain areas. Sakalar, E., Klausberger, T., & Lasztóczi, B. (2022). Science, 377(6603), 324–328.

Learning accurate path integration in ring attractor models of the head direction system. Vafidis, P., Owald, D., D’Albis, T., & Kempter, R. (2022). eLife, 11, e69841.

Selective representations of texture and motion in mouse higher visual areas. Yu, Y., Stirman, J. N., Dorsett, C. R., & Smith, S. L. (2022). Current Biology, 32(13), 2810-2820.e5.

Sound induces analgesia through corticothalamic circuits. Zhou, W., Ye, C., Wang, H., Mao, Y., Zhang, W., Liu, A., … Zhang, Z. (2022). Science, 377(6602), 198–204.

#science #Neuroscience #computational neuroscience #Brain science #research #cognition #cognitive science #neurons #neural networks #neural computation #neurobiology #psychophysics #scientific publications

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wowbright · 2 years

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Fic: New Friendship

Klaine Spring Fling: decision

Words: ~500 words

Rating: Teen and up

Summary: Investigators make friends at the Easter service.

This is part of my Mormon!Klaine universe. It takes place directly after Sweet/Tart and before Love’s Redeeming Work.

My Mormon!Klaine Masterpost. (More recent posts are in bold.)

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“You sound amazing. You almost sang the roof off this structure!” Elder Hummel clasped his hands together—not in a gesture of closing himself off, but more like he had so much excitement and joy thrumming through his body that he had to grab onto himself to keep his insides from spilling out with his emotions. “Thank you for contributing your voices to help invite the Spirit into this space. This is going to be such a wonderful contribution to the meeting today.”

The choir began to disperse. Elder Hummel bounded over toward the piano, sliding onto the bench next to Blaine. “Weren't they great? They were so great!” He squeezed his hand around Blaine’s upper arm and gave it a happy little shake, like a dog wagging its favorite toy around.

His energy was infectious. Blaine smiled so hard his cheeks ached. “They were. They are.” Chandler was chatting with Schwester Schmidt—apparently they were best friends now. Something about Disney’s Little Mermaid, from the snippets of “Arielle” and “Meerjungfrau” that Blaine caught over the other conversations in the room. “Chandler’s making friends.”

Elder Hummel looked at Blaine, smiling but studious, as if he was trying to read the hidden meaning behind his companion's words. “I heard a rumor that's what extroverts like to do.”

“You think he's an extrovert?”

Kurt just laughed. His whole face lit up. It was like standing at a waterfall— the quiet, gentle kind, not the roaring kind like Niagara—and seeing the sunlight bounce off the water and hearing its soft melody mix with the song of nearby birds.

Blaine could've there all day basking in his companion’s laugh, but he was interrupted by the sound of Schwester Schönfeld gasping loudly and calling out excitedly, “Hello, hello, Doro, Stefan—over here!” The couple had just stepped in through the doorway, and Schwester Schönfeld went rushing toward them. Doro beamed like she was reuniting with a long-lost friend, and they greeted each other with a hug and cheek kisses. “So glad you could come. Don't let the missionaries make you sit with them, you have to sit with us!” Schwester Schönfeld turned toward Blaine and Elder Hummel gave them a sly wink. Doro waved apologetically, but without remorse.

"Speaking of new friends…” Elder Hummel didn't have to finish the thought. Blaine knew what he meant. Schwester Schönfeld had mentioned to them that she’d met up with Doro for lunch during the week, but she hadn't given them a report. Apparently, it had gone very well.

“If only I had known Schwester Schönfeld was a scientist. I could've set them up together so much earlier.” Elder Hummel didn't sound sad or regretful about it, though. He just looked happy. He radiated the Spirit.

“Or maybe things happened exactly as they needed to,” Blaine said. "I think God sends us new friends right when we're ready for them."

"Including cat friends?" Elder Hummel said under his breath.

"Cat friends, companions, and Captain Ahabs." Blaine glanced in Chandler's direction.

Elder Hummel laughed again. He bit his lip and slapped Blaine lightly on the upper arm, where he had shaken him earlier. "Happy Easter, Elder Anderson."

"Happy Easter to you too." It felt, somehow, that Blaine was saying more than just those words.

#wowbright writes fic #klaine spring fling #Spring fling 2: Electric Boogaloo #klaine fic #mormon!klaine #my klaine spring fling

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sadunicorn47 · 2 years

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The Savior ~ A Loki x Reader story~

Summary: Loki's previous trip to earth as D.B Cooper was just a simple prank amongst brother; there was absolutely no hidden agenda behind it whatsoever; certainly was not a way for Loki to take a peek at his so called destined soulmate. Y/N has not had an easy life, and has been hurt by the world way too many times. Can she trust her destined soulmate, or is she too far gone to love and be loved? This story is full of love, heartbreak as well as whole lot of mischief and many talks about past abuse.

Chapter 3: Hydra’s new weapon

*Warning*

( talks of abuse and small hints of rape)

~1981, New York~

Joan Schmidt did not consider himself a cruel man, he considered himself a scientific one. So, when he got the dreadful news about his brothers demise; the first thing he promised himself was that he would take care of his niece, and what better way to do that then by giving her the opportunity to contribute her body to science! Her remarkable healing abilities could be his ticket to recreating the super solider serum, but for the next five years no matter how many blood samples he took from the now 10 year old he did he could not seem to perfect the original forum of the super soldier serum. However he was able to enhance his winter soldier's healing abilities which came very handy when he was sent on his secret missions. Don't get him wrong, while he was not an emotional nor sentimental person he did not treat his niece horribly, she lived with him, was home schooled and got the chance to play outside every now and then; this in itself was not a privilege Hydra did not give to many of their experiments. However, Schmidt was getting old and while his brain continued to live on through thousands of computer data bases, his physical body did not. As a result, the 10 year old's fate was in the hands of Hydra's superiors and no one else.

The next thing Y/N remembers after her uncle's death was the words of the handsome guy next to her with a metal arm who tried to assure her that everything was going to be okay before she felt extreme coldness consume her soul.

~Asgard~

The next 5 years felt kind of numb for Loki, he did his best to forget about his soul mate and what she was up to. He would not admit it to himself, but he had never felt worthy of love and despite the fact that he would always make fun of the concept of soul mates, he had caught himself hoping that maybe he would have been worthy of being loved some day. He still had hope that life would find a way to connect them somehow. Unfortunately, all of his dreams where crushed when he was sparring with his brother and suddenly he felt a deep painful coldness consume him and suddenly he no longer felt any presence from his arm on soul mate.. That is when he understood that she was dead. He would deny it ever happening, but that day he had cried and let his older brother hug him.

Another five years had passed by and Loki's had started to feel more like his Mischievous self, whether when it came to pranks or flirting with the many maidens of Asgard. Today however, he may have taken his pranks a little too far when he decided to cut off half of Siff's hair in her sleep and he may have underestimated her anger. Suddenly she was shouting at him and kicking him where the sun does not shine, tired from the beating he got she left him with a few words that would haunt him forever. " You are alone, and you always will be" , that is when it hit him again, that he really was forever alone and that he would never find someone who would truly accept him.

~ 1999, New York~

Y/N should have been 28 years old this year, she had wanted to grow up and become a teacher, but for some reason ever since she was five years old nothing had went to plan. It was the year of 1999 and Y/N was far from being her own age or doing her dream job. Despite being present for 28 years on earth, the constant freezing of her body led to her aging incredibly slowly; she no longer keep tracked of what her possible age could be, but she could guess no more than 15 years old. Her body was used to either project her healing abilities onto other people in Hydra or to experiment on. She had tried to run away many times but had failed and the the consequences of her action where extremely painful. The Hydra members where extremely in tolerant of her, they could never get her to comply like they did with others and they theorized it may have been due to my healing abilities. So, they used good old classical conditioning to build up fear within me; if they could not hurt me physically they hurt me mentally. They took everything from me, they used my body outside of the experiments and tortured me in ways that no human would survive, without my healing abilities. The only friend that I had was the un named winter soldier who did not even remember who I was half of the time. However, he seemed to remember me when I needed him most. I would never forget how he was able to break free from hydra's min control for the first time when he finally saw one of the members using my body. He had taken him of of me and used his metal arm to detach his head from his body. I was too lost in my own consciousness to focus on the bleeding body that was now beside me, but the winter soldier had taken me out of the room before I could see any more blood.

" I promise I will do my best to get us out of here" he had assured me.

However that did not happen any time soon.

( Author's note)

I am eagerly waiting for your opinion on this story.Also I want to note that Bucky will never be a love interest both characters will have a brother and sister relationship and that is it.

#loki x reader #loki x abused reader #loki fluff #loki x you #loki x female reader smut #dom loki #past abuse #mentions of rape

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amazingmsme · 2 years

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Schmidt and Nick from New Girl for the (br)otp asks?

1. Who’s more ticklish?

SCHMIDT SCHMIDT SHMIDT! I’m a little biased cause he’s my fave but like. C’mon. He’s so damn sassy, snarky & funny he just has the bubbly personality of someone crazy ticklish. & look at that dazzling smile! How can he NOT be devastatingly ticklish?

2. What kind of tickles are they sensitive to?

Rough tickles work best on both Nick & Schmidt. Softer ones make Nick all twitchy & giggly & a little whiny & they make Schmidt turn into a happy puddle of goo (especially if it’s from a pretty lady like Cece)

3. Which role (lee/ler) does each of them hold?

Neither of them are capable of holding the braincell for more than 10 minutes so it just makes sense that they’re both switches. Their mood swings also heavily contribute to their alignment cause these dudes can flip on a dime. But Nick just feels more like a ler, ya know? His whole personality & sarcasm & the l mean streak he has… grade A ler material. Schmidt is more of the lee spectrum cause he’s bratty & likes to provoke people, but he has a softer side in general. & when it comes down to it, Schmidt is just a little intimidated cause Nick knows all his worst spots & is a lot more merciless than Schmidt

4. How did they discover each others’ ticklishness?

Nick found out that Schmidt was ticklish when they were rooming together in college. He liked to tease him a lot & he found out when he was jokingly “choking” him when he pissed him off. It took Schmidt a little longer cause he didn’t even try for revenge until he gained more self confidence. But it was a full on sneak attack that came with no warning & caught Nick completely off guard

5. Who’s more likely to instigate a tickle fight?

Nick us so damn confrontational form I reason. Need I remind you of the whole cookie incident? Man makes a mountain out of a mole hill & finds any reason to tickle the shit out of his friends. He even makes up reasons to start shit

6. How often do they tickle each other?

Do you know how chaotic the loft is? That’s an every day occurrence son!

7. Who’s the least likely to ask for tickles?

They are equally matched in their stubborn ways & neither of them are immune to toxic masculinity so they refuse to ask for it. But being such good friends, they can pick up on each other’s moods. But even tho they won’t outright ask for it, they kind of have a code. If they know the other one wants to get wrecked they will indulge them: but not before teasing them to hell & back

#happyandticklish #fic asks #brotp asks #ask meme #ask game #fic meme #new girl #bless you i loved doing these #in love with these dorks #new girl headcanons #winston schmidt #nick miller #ticklish!schmidt #ticklish!nick

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knowledge-and-learning · 2 years

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Google The Great - Interesting read

Google was founded in September 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University in California. Together, they own about 14 percent of its shares and control 56 percent of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock. They incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. An initial public offering (IPO) took place on August 19, 2004, and Google moved to its headquarters in Mountain View, California, nicknamed the Googleplex. In March 1999, the company moved its offices to Palo Alto, home to several other noted Silicon Valley technology startups. The next year, Google began selling advertisements associated with search keywords.[16] In order to maintain an uncluttered page design and increase speed, advertisements were solely text-based. Keywords were sold based on a combination of price bidding and click-through rates, with bidding starting at five cents per click.[17][18] This model of selling keyword advertising was first pioneered by Goto.com (later Overture Services, now part of Yahoo!), one of the most successful companies in the 1990s. Google raised $1.67 million in three rounds of funding in 1998,[19] $25 million in 1999,[20][21] and $100 million in 2000.[22][23][24] An August 2005 secondary public offering raised an additional $4.18 billion,[25] making the total IPO proceeds to date $23.1 billion.[26][notes 1]

In January 1996, Andrei Broder published a paper on the AltaVista search engine providing details of how he had gathered the web crawler data which became the basis for ALIWEB.[27]

In June 1998, Brin and Page presented their paper "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine" to the Seventh International World Wide Web Conference in Brisbane, Australia.[28] Since then, Page and Brin have been frequent keynote speakers at conferences and symposia. Over the years they have made several other important contributions to the field of information retrieval, including the establishment of the PageRank algorithm,[29] still used by Google today.

During their research project they had noted that webpages with high citation scores (links from other, well-cited webpages) tended to be ranked higher by conventional search engines. They realized that if they could develop a system that could crawl the web and create an index of all the pages it found, it would be possible to provide much better search results than existing techniques. This became the motivation behind their work.

In March 2001, at Stanford, Brin and Page presented "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine", describing Google as "[...] a new kind of search engine".[30] This paper has been cited over 8,800 times.[31][32] Their initial idea was to sell Google as a commercial license to larger companies, but potential customers were not interested. To make Google available to everyone, they set up a charitable corporation, and by the end of 1998 Google was running on 2,000 desktops at Stanford.[33]

The following year, Sergey Brin named Larry Page as the new CEO of Google. Eric Schmidt, who had been hired as Chairman of the Board in 2001, took over as CEO in April 2011. In March 2015, Page once again became the CEO of Google. Marissa Mayer, a former executive at Google, replaced Schmidt as chairman.[34]

Over the years, Google has made several acquisitions to expand its reach into new markets. In February 2003, it acquired Pyra Labs, owner of Blogger, a web logging service. Google acquired Picasa in July 2004, a web-based photo sharing service.[35]

In October 2006, Google announced that it had acquired the video-sharing site YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock.[36][37] The acquisition brought 400 million new users to Google and helped fuel further growth of the company. In April 2007, Google reached an advertising revenue sharing agreement with MySpace, which was owned by News Corporation at the time.[38]

In May 2010, Google acquired Agnilux, a secretive startup working on chips and hardware systems for servers.[39] That same month, the company also announced the acquisition of AdMob, a mobile advertising company,[40] for $750 million.

In August 2010, Google announced the acquisition of LabPixies, a Mumbai and Israel-based company that created interactive content such as games, widgets, and greeting cards.[41]

In October 2010, Google acquired Metaweb, a web of data that includes Freebase, a database of more than 12 million entities.[42][43] The acquisition was aimed at improving search results by better understanding the meanings and relationships between entities.

In April 2011, Google announced the acquisition of Admeld,[44] a display advertising platform that helps publishers increase revenue from their ad inventory. That same month, the company also acquired PushLife,[45] a mobile content management system.

In July 2011, Google announced the acquisition of Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion,[46] its largest acquisition to date. The purchase was made in order to gain access to Motorola's portfolio of patents and mobile devices. In August 2011, Google announced the acquisition of Frommer's,[47] a travel guidebook series.

In January 2012, Google acquired Wildfire Interactive,[48] a social media marketing company. That same month, the company also announced the acquisition of SketchUp,[49] a 3D modeling program used by architects, engineers, and graphic designers.

In May 2012, Google announced the acquisition of Quickoffice,[50] a mobile productivity suite that allows users to create and edit Microsoft Office documents on their smartphones and tablet computers. In June 2012, Google announced the acquisition of Waze,[51] a social GPS navigation app.

In September 2013, Google announced the acquisition of Bump Technologies,[52] a company that develops mobile apps that allow users to share contact information and files by bumping their phones together. In November 2013, Google announced the acquisition of Makani Power,[53] a company that is developing energy kites, which are tethered wings that generate power from wind.

In January 2014, Google acquired Nest Labs,[54] a manufacturer of smart thermostats and smoke detectors. In May 2014, Google announced the acquisition of SlickLogin,[55] a company that is developing technology that allows users to log into websites and apps using their smartphones or other devices.

In January 2015, Google announced the acquisition of DeepMind,[56] a company that is developing artificial intelligence technology. In February 2015, Google announced the acquisition of Jaiku,[57] a social networking service.

In September 2015, Google announced the acquisition of Makani Power, a company that is developing energy kites, which are tethered wings that generate power from wind.[58]

In January 2016, Google announced the formation of Alphabet Inc., a holding company that would house Google and its other businesses.[59] Under the new structure, Page became the CEO of Alphabet and Sundar Pichai became the CEO of Google.[60]

In October 2016, Google completed the sale of Motorola Mobility to Lenovo for $2.91 billion.[61][62]

In December 2016, Google acquired Owlchemy Labs,[63] a virtual reality company that is best known for its Job Simulator and Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality games.

In January 2017, Google announced the acquisition of AIMatter,[64] a startup that is developing artificial intelligence technology. In February 2017, Google completed the sale of its satellite imaging business to Planet Labs.[65]

In September 2017, Google announced the acquisition of HTC's Pixel smartphone division for $1.1 billion.[66] The deal will see Google acquiring HTC's engineering team that worked on the Pixel smartphones.

As of October 2017, Google has made over 200 acquisitions,[67] with the most notable ones being the acquisitions of YouTube, Android, Motorola Mobility, and DeepMind.

In January 2018, Google announced the acquisition of Viewpoint Robotics,[68] a company that is developing technology for robots to navigate autonomously in unstructured environments. In February 2018, Google completed the acquisition of Xively,[69] a cloud-based Internet of Things platform from LogMeIn.

In May 2018, Google announced the acquisition of ITA Software,[70] a flight search and planning company, from American Airlines and other investors for $700 million. In June 2018, Google announced the acquisition of Velostrata,[71] a cloud migration startup.

In September 2018, Google announced the acquisition of Disqus,[72] a blog comment hosting service. In October 2018, Google completed the acquisition of Sigmoid Labs,[73] the company behind the AppSheet mobile app development platform.

In January 2019, Google announced the acquisition of Looker,[74] a data analytics startup, for $2.6 billion. In February 2019, Google announced the acquisition of Fitbit,[75] a fitness tracker company, for $2.1 billion.

In June 2019, Google announced the acquisition of Alooma,[76] a cloud data migration startup. In August 2019, Google announced the acquisition of Toontastic,[77] an educational cartoon creation startup.

In November 2019, Google completed the acquisition of Fitbit,[78] a fitness tracker company, for $2.1 billion. The deal was first announced in October 2018.[79]

In January 2020, Google announced the acquisition of Elastifile,[80] a cloud file storage startup. In February 2020, Google completed the acquisition of Looker,[81] a data analytics startup, for $2.6 billion. The deal was first announced in June 2019.[82]

In March 2020, Google completed the acquisition of Stackdriver,[83] a cloud monitoring and logging service provider, from Amazon Web Services for an undisclosed sum. In May 2020, Google announced the acquisition of North,[84] a smart glasses company.

As of June 2020, Google has made over 240 acquisitions,[85] with the most notable ones being the acquisitions of YouTube, Android, Motorola Mobility, DeepMind, Looker, and Fitbit.

Sundar Pichai

Sundar Pichai is an Indian American business executive. He is the CEO of both Google and its holding company Alphabet Inc.[3]

Pichai was born in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India, in 1972.[4][5] His mother Lakshmi was a stenographer and his father Regunatha Pichai was an electrical engineer at General Electric.[6][7][8] He grew up in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.[9][10] He earned his degree from IIT Kharagpur in metallurgical engineering.[11]

Pichai worked as a materials scientist at Applied Materials and in management consulting at McKinsey & Company before joining Google in 2004.[12] He led the product management and innovation efforts for a suite of Google's client software products, including Chrome and Chrome OS, as well as being largely responsible for Google Drive.[13] He was then appointed the vice president of product development in 2013, overseeing the design and development of all consumer products, such as Search, Maps, YouTube, and Apps.[14][15]

In October 2015, Pichai gave a keynote about Google's plans for the future at the Internet Association's policy conference in Washington D.C.. In this presentation he stated that "Mobile as a computing platform is where personal computing was in 1980."[16][17]

Pichai was named the CEO of Google on 10 August 2015 after former CEO and co-founder Larry Page announced that he would be creating Alphabet Inc., a new holding company for Google with Pichai as its CEO.[18][19] As the CEO of Google, Pichai oversees all of its Internet products and services, such as Search, Maps, YouTube, Apps, and Android. He also oversees the technical infrastructure of the company.[20]

In December 2019, it was announced that Pichai had been awarded a $240 million stock grant which will vest over four years. The grant is performance-based, meaning that if Google meets certain financial targets during that time, Pichai will receive the full value of the grant. If not, he will only receive a portion of it. This grant is in addition to the $1.9 million salary and $380,769 bonus that he received in 2019.[21]

Pichai has been described as a "thought leader" on technology issues.[22][23] He is also an advocate for diversity and inclusion in the tech industry and has spoken about the need to increase the number of women and minorities in tech.[24][25]

In 2017, Pichai was ranked #9 on Forbes' list of the World's Most Powerful People.[26] In 2018, he was ranked #4 on Fortune's list of the World's Greatest Leaders.[27] And in 2019, he was once again ranked #9 on Forbes' list of the World's Most Powerful People.[28]

Pichai has been married to Anjali Pichai since 2004. They have two children together.[29][30]

The tech giant plans on adding more content to the site in order to make it a one-stop shop for all things Google. This includes everything from how-to videos and product demonstrations, to user generated reviews and even a Q&A section where users can ask questions and get answers from experts.

In addition to adding new content, Google also plans on redesigning the existing website to make it more user friendly and easier to navigate. The goal is to make it simpler for users to find the information they need, without having to search through multiple pages or clicks.

This brings the question of where is Bing, Ask.com, or maybe even DuckDuckGo? Google has the majority of the search engine market share. Experts state that "Google's dominance in search is unquestioned, but the company has been under pressure from antitrust regulators in Europe."[31] This could be due to the fact that "In March 2015, Google was hit with a record $57 million fine by the European Union for violating antitrust laws."[32]

The new content and redesign of their website is a way for Google to show that they are still the top dog when it comes to search engines. They want to keep users coming back to their site, and this is one way to do it.

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The Rim of the World was a hell of a lot more fun to see than I thought it was going to be. Like, silly as hell and good with it. Reminded me to get out my own arse a bit and that I’m not too grown-up to enjoy that stuff. Colourful, too: each location had it’s own distinct colour palette and I thought that has stylish as hell.

#movies #rim of the world #schmidt makes a contribution #i tag everything #daci's watching

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Ello, happy Blursday! <3 Give me a blorbo from North Pointe, please. Or go off about Solomon, if that's too spoilery, you're choice. <3 I'm just here shaking with excitement towards everything that's Second Serpent.

I have no blorbos from North Pointe yet! There's Delilah who is the ADC Rep there, but I would not call her a blorbo so much as one more oppositional force to the political B-plot. There will certainly be blorbos from there someday, but today is not that day.

SO, LET'S TALK ABOUT SOLOMAN.

CW: ritualistic self-harm and radical religious views.

Dick Soloman is the leader of the Lower London Liberation, the mind behind the very icky "Project Bloom" experiments, and a devout Rapturist.

Rapturists are religious radicals who believe the Spacebelt Incident and subsequent wars were an aborted "rapture." According to their doctrine, all people who are currently living are either the descendants of the corrupted "unworthy" or are the descendants of angels in human form. After the Spacebelt, the angels supposedly took pity on humankind. They chose to forget their divine heritage and become human, to join civilization in an attempt to save as many souls as possible before the next Rapture.

The "Project Bloom" human experiments (which created Rhen, Rowan, Kainnon, and Antoni) were his attempt to revive the dormant divine souls of the angels. He believes that the next Rapture is nigh and, to his benefit... there's definitely some big shit brewing.

Soloman lives by the tenet that pain is a necessary and deserved part of the human experience, and that embracing pain is the only true bridge to enlightenment. He keeps a strict diet of intermittent fasts and extremely small amounts of food, which contributes to a gaunt and sickly appearance. His skin is covered in scarifications and tattoos-- goetia and occult sigils which supposedly give him certain protections from evil. Although the Liberation makes half of its revenue from basement suite implant surgeries, Soloman refuses to have his kneecap replaced. His cane is inlaid with goetia as well, which allows the cane to work as sort of a... metaphysical taser? It zaps, but it zaps your soul. Ouchie.

His eye is the only in-body prosthetic he has. He can't see out of it, not really, but he would tell you that it allows him to recognize "dormant divine energies." Schmidt & Foster Y-clearance would have a gasp, since what it really does is spot what they refer to as "special births."

Lastly, Soloman is Rowan Faraday's father figure... of sorts. Rowan is one of his human experiments from the Project Bloom days, and that's pretty fucked up, but if you asked, they would both tell you the same thing: That they have mutual respect for, and have chosen a life in service to, one another. He considers Rowan to be an actual divine being, and he treats her with a distant sort of lima-syndrome-esque paternal affection.

To sum, he's entirely out of his gourd, but he's also intelligent and oddly charming and not QUITE evil enough at the moment to do away with... yet. Writing interactions between him and Rowan are fascinating explorations of Stockholm Syndrome/ Lima Syndrome, and how closely those things can resemble "love."

He's exactly the kind of complicated, fucked up character I love.

#dick soloman #second serpent asks #ss oc asks #writeblr #second serpent #bird and fish #writing community #writers of tumblr #second serpent wip #novel #bird and fish wip

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Looking inside a neutron star – new model will improve insights gleaned from gravitational waves The unique oscillations in binary neutron stars right before they merge could have big implications for the insights scientists can glean from gravitational wave detection. Researchers at the University of Birmingham have demonstrated the way in which these vibrations, caused by the interactions between the two stars’ tidal fields as they get close together, affect gravitational-wave observations. The study is published in Physical Review Letters. Taking these movements into account could make a huge difference to our understanding of the data taken by the Advanced LIGO and Virgo instruments, set up to detect gravitational waves – ripples in time and space – produced by the merging of black holes and neutron stars. The researchers aim to have a new model ready for Advanced LIGO’s next observing run and even more advanced models for the next generation of Advanced LIGO instruments, called A+, which are due to begin their first observing run in 2025. Since the first gravitational waves were detected by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration in 2016, scientists have been focused on advancing their understanding of the massive collisions that produce these signals, including the physics of a neutron star at supra nuclear densities. Dr Geraint Pratten, of the Institute for Gravitational Wave Astronomy at University of Birmingham, is lead-author on the paper. He said: “Scientists are now able to get lots of crucial information about neutron stars from the latest gravitational wave detections. Details such as the relationship between the star’s mass and its radius, for example, provide crucial insight into fundamental physics behind neutron stars. If we neglect these additional effects, our understanding of the structure of the neutron star as a whole can become deeply biased.” Dr Patricia Schmidt, co-author on the paper and Associate Professor at the Institute for Gravitational Wave Astronomy, added: “These refinements are really important. Within single neutron stars we can start to understand what’s happening deep inside the star’s core, where matter exists at temperatures and densities we cannot produce in ground-based experiments. At this point we might start to see atoms interacting with each other in ways we have not yet seen – potentially requiring new laws of physics.” The refinements devised by the team represent the latest contribution from the University of Birmingham to the Advanced LIGO programme. Researchers in the University’s Institute for Gravitational Wave Astronomy have been deeply involved in design and development of the detectors since the programme’s earliest stages. Looking ahead, PhD student Natalie Williams is already progressing work on calculations to further refine and calibrate the new models.

#space #science #Astronomy #physics #news #neutron star

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"While the war raged in Europe, psychiatrist Arild Faurbye, together with three colleagues, introduced electro-convulsive therapy at Bispebjerg Hospital’s Psychiatric Department in Copenhagen. Faurbye had been in the audience at Cerletti and Bini’s lecture at the congress, where he had understood the interest in the new treatment. Shortly after, he employed a Danish civil engineer to construct an electroshock device based on the Italian example and received an experimental device with a transformer that could deliver a voltage from 0 to 150 volts. The shock was given as an alternating current via two electrodes, which consisted of two zinc plates of 4 × 5.5 cm with gauze that was smeared with a glycerine ointment and fastened using a rubber band around the patient’s head.

Having received the device, the first treatment at Bispebjerg Hospital was performed on 15 November 1940, and in the following two months 200 electro-convulsive treatments were given to 26 patients. In the first attempts, Faurbye and three other psychiatrists from Bispebjerg Hospital noted in the patients’ records that there were improvements in a little under half of the patients, but they did not report of actual recoveries. The results were assessed based on experiences with Cardiazol shock therapy. At Bispebjerg, the doctors concluded that “all in all it appears to us that electro-convulsive therapy has the same effect as Cardiazol and is not subject to many of the Cardiazol’s drawbacks.”

In the Directorate for the State’s Psychiatric Hospitals, the new treatment method was noticed by the director, Georg Brøchner-Mortensen, who in the beginning of 1941 contacted chief physician Max Schmidt from Augustenborg Psychiatric Hospital. The directorate’s director wanted to hear Schmidt’s assessment of the new treatment, since he knew that two doctors from Augustenborg had previously visited Bispebjerg Hospital to observe the electro-convulsive therapy.

In his reply, Schmidt highlighted that there appeared to be certain advantages with electroshock but that with each new treatment there was always an associated risk that in “the case at hand could not easily be over-looked.” The existing knowledge on the effect of electricity on the human body could not be considered to be exhaustive, and there had been “an inexplicable death in connection with the treatment” at Bispebjerg.Hospital. Since he at the same time found that the Cardiazol treatment in Augustenborg worked well, and since he “did not like the matter of death,” he had refrained from introducing electroshock therapy.

Financial circumstances had also contributed to Max Schmidt’s reluctance, and he had assessed that it was not possible to make any savings by using electro-convulsive therapy instead of Cardiazol. But after Brøchner-Mortensen’s enquiry, he had begun to calculate the costs again and had reached the conclusion that electroshock would be cheaper in the long run. In his letter, he therefore ultimately recommended for electroshock therapy to be thoroughly tested in at least one of the state psychiatric hospitals.

Max Schmidt—after applying a great deal of pressure himself—was assigned the task by the Directorate of the State Mental Hospitals, and on 3 October 1941 he was able to start the first test of the treatment. Thereafter, he kept the Directorate informed of the progress, and in his letters, he was able to report good results. Electro-convulsive therapy was thought to be just as effective as Cardiazol, induced less angst in the patients and caused slightly fewer physical injuries. In relation to Cardiazol, there was also “a considerable time-saving,” since, for restless patients, it was not necessary to have “a significant number of care workers to strap down the patient” and the electroshock could be carried out before the patient was “aware of what lay ahead.” Therefore, in the beginning of 1942, Max Schmidt warmly supported the new treatment and suggested to the Directorate that the other hospitals should also benefit from it.

At a chief physician meeting on 27 January 1942, Schmidt presented electroshock therapy to the other senior consultants from the state mental hospitals, and everyone was very positive regarding the new method. After the meeting, when the Directorate’s director was willing to provide money for the treatment, all the chief physicians wanted two or three electroshock devices available at their hospitals. Comprehensive electrical work was however needed so that all the hospitals were able to use the Swedish devices that had been chosen for the treatment. Therefore, the Directorate applied for additional funding, which was granted by the Ministry of Finance on 4 March 1943. Subsequently, electro-convulsive therapy could take its place in all the state psychiatric hospitals.

Just like the previous physical treatment methods, electroshock therapy quickly became popular among psychiatrists at the psychiatric hospitals, and it also received a warm welcome among the general public. The treatment was praised by popular magazines such as Billed-Bladet, which in 1943 visited Augustenborg Mental Hospital and received a demonstration of electroshock therapy as the latest breakthrough in psychiatry. And Danish newspaper readers were also informed of the new treatment. In the newspapers, electro-convulsive therapy was portrayed positively, even though the journalists also discovered that, as a treatment, electric shocks were rather dramatic in nature.

However, even when the journalists witnessed electroshock therapy— and did not simply refer to doctors’ statements—they were not negative regarding the treatment (the press’ critical attitude towards electroconvulsive therapy first came later). As was the case with a journalist in May 1950, the press occasionally witnessed demonstrations in electro-convulsive therapy at state mental hospitals. That year, the journalist had been given permission to be present at the shock therapy on one of the departments at psychiatric hospital in Middelfart and in a detailed account described the process surrounding the treatment in the newspaper Fyns Social-Demokrat:

The midday siren rang out from the top of the kitchen building, but the ambulatory patients return only reluctantly from the arts and crafts rooms. They know that the department is at the other end, because it is shock day! In the long corridor, no nurses are to be seen. They are all inside to assist on the shock wards – the two small rooms that have been cleared, making six patients homeless until late in the afternoon. At a long table, a number of patients are sitting and eating lunch. Others are waiting to talk to the doctor. Those who will have shock treatment are in their night clothes with a blanket over them. If they have not been lethargic before, then they are now completely empty in the eyes after a restless night and a morning’s anxious wait – all on an empty stomach. (...) The door to the office springs open and a whole procession, with doctors leading the way, turns in to one of the shock wards. At the end, the shock device is rolled in. And the door is shut. The treatment happens as if it is on a conveyor belt. The first patient is treated in the bed by the window, a screen in front, the next patient is called in, another screen in front – but when number three comes to the door it can well be that the first patient by the window has woken up after the shock. And it is not nice to lie there after a shock and hear another patient’s unconscious screams from the seizures. It is not nice at all ... Even at the lunch table out in the corridor, one cannot escape the seizure screams. The newly arrived stare terrified at the treated patients, who are supported by nurses as they are led back to their own beds. They do not know that these exhausted, unwell people will most often laugh and talk merrily by the evening. Nonetheless, this is the most natural. The shock therapy can seem like a complete miracle.

The journalist concluded the article, entitled “Electric shock can lead the mentally ill back to life,” by saying that it “is really a fact that psychiatric hospitals the world over are able to send several hundred patients home cured every year – only because of a couple of electrodes’ miraculous effect."

- Jesper Vaczy Kragh, Lobotomy Nation: The History of Psychosurgery and Psychiatry in Denmark (Springer: 2021) p. 132-136.

#shock therapy #electroconvulsive therapy #electroshock therapy #bispebjerg hospital #psychiatric clinic #psychiatric power #danish history #mental hospital #madness and civilization #lobotomy nation #academic quote #directorate of the state mental hospitals #copenhagen #reading 2023

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Astronomers have found the brightest known object in the universe—a glowing core of a galaxy, called a quasar, located 12 billion light-years away.

Quasars, as a whole, are the brightest objects in the cosmos, each consisting of a supermassive black hole that’s actively devouring an orbiting disc of gas and dust. But the black hole in this record-setting quasar is gobbling up more than a sun’s-worth of mass every day, making it the fastest growing black hole scientists have ever seen, according to a statement from the European Space Agency (ESA).

The gargantuan object stretches about seven light-years across, and it puts our sun’s luminosity to shame—the quasar shines more than 500 trillion times brighter than the star in our solar system, the researchers reported Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy.

“This quasar is the most violent place that we know in the universe,” Christian Wolf, lead author of the new study and an astrophysicist at Australian National University, tells Marcia Dunn of the Associated Press (AP).

“It is a surprise that it has remained unknown until today, when we already know about a million less impressive quasars,” study co-author Christopher Onken, an astronomer at Australian National University, says in the statement. “It has literally been staring us in the face until now.”

Supermassive black holes, which are at the heart of every quasar, grow by pulling stars and gas clouds into a ring of orbiting material called an accretion disc and swallowing them up. The matter circling the black hole rubs together, creating friction that releases glowing heat that can be seen from far away.

Researchers unknowingly spotted the ultra-bright quasar, officially called J059-4351, in images taken in 1980 by the Schmidt Southern Sky Survey, a telescope in Australia—but at first, they mistakenly identified it as a star. Typically, astronomers find quasars using machine-learning models trained to survey large areas of the sky for objects that look like known quasars in existing data. This makes it harder to spot unusually bright quasars that are unlike anything seen before.

But last year, the study authors determined the object was in fact a quasar using a telescope at the Siding Spring Observatory in Australia. They followed up with data from the Very Large Telescope in Chile to determine the quasar was the brightest ever seen.

“The exciting thing about this quasar is that it was hiding in plain sight and was misclassified as a star previously,” Priyamvada Natarajan, an astrophysicist at Yale University who did not contribute to the findings, tells the AP.

Around the quasar, the accretion disk is 15,000 times the length between the sun and Neptune, per the ESA, and its black hole weighs about the same as 17 billion suns.

The black hole in the quasar is ravenous, consuming an amount of material equivalent to as much as 413 suns each year, according to New Scientist’s Alex Wilkins. As a result, the disc glows brightly as it releases unfathomable amounts of energy.

“It looks like a gigantic and magnetic storm cell with temperatures of 10,000 degrees Celsius, lightning everywhere and winds blowing so fast they would go around Earth in a second,” Wolf tells the Guardian’s Tory Shepherd.

Because the accretion disc spans such a long distance, it could be possible for future researchers to accurately measure the mass of the black hole at the center, Christine Done, a physicist studying black holes at Durham University in England who was not involved in the research, tells New Scientist.

“This is big enough and bright enough that we could resolve it with our current instruments,” Done says to the publication. “We could have a much more direct measure of the black hole mass in this monster, and that’s what I did get quite excited about.”

The light from the quasar took about 12 billion years—the majority of the history of the universe—to reach us. Its black hole would have stopped growing long ago, Wolf writes in the Conversation. Since much of the gas that once floated freely around the cosmos has consolidated into stars that travel on long orbits around black holes, these massive objects no longer have as much material to feed on as they did in the early universe.

Wolf tells the Guardian that he doesn’t think anything will ever top this record for the universe’s brightest object.

#current events #astronomy #black holes #quasars #accretion disc #j0529-4351 #very large telescope

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Muskoka Farm Pre Training Center

The Muskoka Farm pre training center is a world class facility in Gunderman, New South Wales. It is surrounded by natural bushland and is perfect for fine-tuning the instincts and science of horse care.

The 280-acre property can accommodate 200 horses. It features five stable barns, 27 day yards, and 10 large fully fenced paddocks. It also has a two-bedroom guest house, a private jetty/pontoon, and staff cottages. To know more about Pre Training, visit the Muskoka Farm website or call (02)45663106.

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Toby Pracey is a professional horse breaker who uses violence-free methods and has worked with several top racehorses. His clients include Golden Slipper winners and group 1 horses. His training program is based on the Join-Up method.

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Bill O’Reilly is returning to the airwaves with a new show on The First, a conservative digital TV network. The show will be broadcast twice daily and will feature big names in conservative media. He is one of several prominent figures that have signed up for the channel.

Steel and Schmidt contacted dozens of women who had experienced sexual harassment from O’Reilly, but most would not speak to them on the record. Many had been silenced either legally, due to confidentiality agreements in their settlements, or figuratively, out of fear of losing their jobs.

Located near national parks and surrounded by natural bushland, the 280-acre Muskoka Farm horse spelling and pre training center offers a unique facility for race horses. The center customizes care for each horse and is constantly evolving its approach to horse training.

Mars inherited her grandfather’s chocolate company, which generates over $45 billion annually. She is a philanthropist who donates millions to a variety of causes and enjoys horseback riding. She owns a protected organic farm and participates in various equestrian events.

Thoroughbred breeding makes a huge contribution to Australia’s regional economy, with stallion fees and sales profits supporting thousands of jobs. It also contributes to a wide range of related industries.

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The thoroughbred breeding industry makes a major contribution to Australia’s regional economy, with stallion fees and sales profits supporting thousands of jobs. Horse breaking is an important part of the breeding process, and it helps to prevent behavioural problems down the track.

Toby Pracey is a professional horse breaker who has a long list of clients that includes Golden Slipper winners and Group 1 winners. His approach to preparing race horses is unique, and he uses a mixture of science and instinct.

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The farm is constantly evolving its approach to horse care, so you can rest assured that your race horse will be treated with the utmost care. The facility also offers a variety of training programs and services, including early development, jumping, polo and dressage. To know more about Pre Training, visit the Muskoka Farm website or call (02)45663106.

This world class facility is a one-of-a-kind offering that cannot be replicated. The 117-hectare estate features five stable barns, a two-kilometer crusher dust track and a private two-bedroom guest house. It also has a private jetty/pontoon, a swimming pool and a tennis court.

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