Scientists reportedly discover gate to hell

Digital reconstruction of "Pluto's Gate" (Francesco D'Andria)

It sounds like something out of a horror movie. But Italian scientists say that the ?Gate to Hell? is the real deal?poisonous vapors and all.

The announcement of the finding of the ruins of Pluto?s Gate (Plutonium in Latin) at an archeology conference in Turkey last month, was recently reported by Discovery News. Francesco D'Andria, professor of classic archaeology at the University of Salento, who has been excavating the ancient Greco-Roman World Heritage Site of Hierapolis for years, led the research team.

D?Andria told Discovery News he used ancient mythology as his guide to locate the legendary portal to the underworld. ?We found the Plutonium by reconstructing the route of a thermal spring. Indeed, Pamukkale' springs, which produce the famous white travertine terraces originate from this cave.?

Scribes like Cicero and the Greek geographer Strabo mentioned the gate to hell as located at the ancient site in Turkey, but nobody had been able to find it until now.

?Pluto?s Gate? has been documented in the Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, which noted in its description of ancient Hierapolis, ?Adjoining the temple on the SE is the Plutoneion, which constituted the city's chief claim to fame. It was described by Strabo as an orifice in a ridge of the hillside, in front of which was a fenced enclosure filled with thick mist immediately fatal to any who entered.?

Strabo (64 B.C.- 24 B.C.) wrote, ?This space is full of a vapor so misty and dense that one can scarcely see the ground. Any animal that passes inside meets instant death. I threw in sparrows and they immediately breathed their last and fell.?

The portal to the underworld seems just as bad for your health in today. The professor said, ?We could see the cave's lethal properties during the excavation. Several birds died as they tried to get close to the warm opening, instantly killed by the carbon dioxide fumes.?

According to Discovery News, the fumes emanated from a cave below the site, which includes ionic columns with inscriptions to Pluto and Kore, gods of the underworld. Also discovered: the remains of a temple, and a pool and stairs placed above the cave. D'Andria is now working on a digital rendering of the site.

Amazingly, this isn?t the first entry to the underworld in the world. In the Karakum Desert, a fiery pit that?s been lit up for over 40 years has inspired visitors to Derweze in Turkmenistan?and on the Web. Geologists drilling in the area came across a natural gas cavern. Hoping to burn off the gas, they set it on fire. The flames continued to burn, leading locals to dub the site the ?door to hell.?

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Tesla Model S now eligible for non-traditional lease with resale guarantee

Just as Tesla isn't in the business of making average cars, it's just introduced a leasing program for the Model S sedan that's not entirely run-of-the-mill. Unique to the company's 66-month lease program, you'll find the option of selling the Model S after 36 months at a price that's pegged to the residual value of the Mercedes S Class. While that may sound all fine and dandy, be warned, if you couldn't afford a Model S before, there's a good chance it's still be a wee bit out of your grasp. The Tesla Model S 85kWh edition runs $1,199 per month, which then becomes slightly more palatable once tax credits are factored in. On the average, individuals can expect to pay between $732 to $940 per month for the privilege of leasing a Model S. Meanwhile, business users stand to benefit even more, who can use tax credits to bring the overall cost down to $505 per month. Feel free to hit up the source links if you now think Motor Trend's 2013 Car of the Year is an expense you can stomach, but for the rest of us, we'll just keep dreaming.

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PFT: Smith says slights on work ethic 'untrue'

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The typical civil lawsuit works this way:? (1) the plaintiff sues the defendant; (2) if the case doesn?t settle and the plaintiff wins at trial, the plaintiff obtains a judgment; (3) if the defendant doesn?t pay the judgment voluntarily, the plaintiff must then chase the defendant to get the money.

The recent New York Daily News article regarding Bengals cornerback Adam Jones? lingering legal morass creates the impression that the case against Jones is following that basic linear path.? Jones was sued by Tommy Urbanski after the notorious ?make it rain? incident from early 2007 that left Urbanski paralyzed, Urbanski secured a $13.4 million judgment against Jones, and Urbanski has now filed paperwork in Ohio to seize a portion of Jones? football salary to satisfy part of the debt.

From Jones? perspective, it?s a bit more complicated than that.

Jones? agent, Peter Schaffer, explains that the judgment against Jones isn?t even final yet, with legal issues pending on appeal in Nevada.? One of the biggest questions, according to Schaffer, is whether Nevada law recognizes a claim for ?negligent infliction of emotional distress? without an underlying assault or battery.

In English, this means that there?s a question as to whether Jones legally can be responsible to Urbanski when Jones didn?t shoot Urbanski or otherwise have any physical contact with him.? That issue, Schaffer explained, needs to be resolved by the Nevada Supreme Court.

The broader question is whether Jones can be held fully responsible for the $13.4 million judgment when multiple other defendants (including the shooter) also have been found liable to Urbanski.? This gets into notions of ?joint and several liability,? an area of the law that typically arises when, for example, one defendant who was primarily responsible for someone?s injuries has little or no money to pay a judgment and another defendant with limited culpability but greater financial resources is asked to pay the entire judgment.

The problem for Jones is that, in this case, he?s got the closest thing to a ?deep pocket.?? Though Jones will never be able to fork over the full amount (absent a Powerball jackpot or his own eight-figure lawsuit), Urbanski can try to get at Jones? assets in order to partially satisfy the debt.? Urbanski is doing that by attempting to obtain a piece of Jones? paycheck from the Bengals.

In Ohio, however, the maximum wage garnishment is 25 percent for all creditors.? With Urbanski getting in line behind other creditors (including the IRS) and with the judgment against Jones, according to Schaffer, not finalized, Urbanski likely will continue to wait for compensation from the shooting.

Of course, if Jones weren?t at least partially liable, Urbanski would be left with claims against various defendants who are what lawyers call ?judgment proof.?? In this case, the fact that one of the responsible parties plays in the NFL gives Urbanski a path for obtaining partial satisfaction of the judgment.

Schaffer also said that he has been trying to work out a settlement with Urbanski?s lawyers, given that the case is unresolved and that Jones most likely will never be able to pay the full amount.? In an apparent effort to put pressure on Jones, Urbanski?s lawyers have leaked portions of emails containing settlement negotiations to the media.? That could make it harder as a practical matter to strike a deal, since it creates issues of mistrust between the lawyers.

Absent a settlement, it appears that the situation still has a long way to go before it will be resolved.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/04/02/geno-smith-calls-report-about-work-ethic-untrue/related/

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Chris Brown's New Video Is Offensive to Women

Chris Brown says he's a changed man, but his new music video doesn't help his case. In an interview with Today, the R&B singer opened up about his 2009 assault of girlfriend Rihanna, with whom he's since reunited. Now, says Brown, he's learned to respect women. So why does his new single literally objectify women, by equating us with "Fine China"? 

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Parent Perspectives in Special Education: Homework for All

Several things have happened over the past month or so that kind of tickled the need for this particular post.? I was working in a district with some professionals who really have not had much experience with children with disabilities, but who very much want to learn.? Specifically, we were talking about deafness, and the conversation turned to understanding more about the impacts on families and about some of the social issues and concerns that come into play for the kids as they get older.? The conversation progressed, and eventually arrived at a time when I had to leave and move on to my next stop on that trip.? I told them that I was going to give them ?homework?.? Basically 2 movies that I think, while not being perfect, give a good picture of a number of these topics.

About 2 weeks ago, my son asked me if we could request a movie on Netflix that he wanted to see.? It was a movie I had never heard of before, but told him that it was not a problem, to go ahead and add it and move it to the top of the queue, which he did.

The more I?ve been thinking about it, the more I think most folks who work with kids with disabilities or their families (not just deafness or blindness, but kids with any disability) should take the time to watch the 3 movies that I?m going to mention.

The first movie is ?Children of a Lesser God?.? It is a good look at some of the conflicts between ideologies that can and often exist between the deaf and hearing worlds? perspectives.??

The second movie is one that I have a really hard time watching.? I?ve seen all of it, but never in one sitting.? I have to walk away from the movie, and then come back later to see a little more, and repeat the process until it is done.? It is ?Mr. Holland?s Opus?.? Most of the articles you read about it deal with Richard Dreyfuss and his life as a music teacher.? For me (and for many parents) it is about his role as a father of a child who is deaf, trying to come to grips with everything that means, and find a way to deal with it.? So many fathers and families go through these same issues.? If you have spent any time in the disability world and not picked up on this, then we really need to have a conversation.? Again, this movie is very hard for me to watch.? It is one that gets into a place inside me that I keep locked and barricaded and this movie tries to force it open.? Truth be told, I think that all of us who are dads of kids with special needs have this place inside of us, and often our ability to function depends on keeping this vault closed.? What we put into it, and how large it is, varies from father to father, but it is there.? For me, this movie tries to dynamite that vault open.?

The third movie is the one I had never heard of until Ian asked if we could get it.? That movie stars Daniel Day-Lewis.? It is called ?My Left Foot?.? It is actually a true story, and is based on the autobiography of a man named Christy Brown, who was born in 1932 in Dublin, Ireland.? Brown was born with cerebral palsy and initially his family was told that he had limited mental capacities at best and probably should be committed.? Instead the family raised him at home.? The title comes from the fact that the only limb he had real control over was his left leg.? Without going into all the details that make the movie worth watching, suffice it to say he became a successful artist, writer, and poet.? He published a number of books and three collections of poetry during his life. ??It is a movie worth watching simply because everyone, professionals and parents alike, need to be reminded of the potential of the individual, and the need to look beyond a diagnosis and see the individual.

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Watching fluid flow at nanometer scales: Tiny nanowires can lift liquids as effectively as tubes

Apr. 1, 2013 ? Imagine if you could drink a glass of water just by inserting a solid wire into it and sucking on it as though it were a soda straw. It turns out that if you were tiny enough, that method would work just fine -- and wouldn't even require the suction to start.

New research carried out at MIT and elsewhere has demonstrated for the first time that when inserted into a pool of liquid, nanowires -- wires that are only hundreds of nanometers (billionths of a meter) across -- naturally draw the liquid upward in a thin film that coats the surface of the wire. The finding could have applications in microfluidic devices, biomedical research and inkjet printers.

The phenomenon had been predicted by theorists, but never observed because the process is too small to be seen by optical microscopes; electron microscopes need to operate in a vacuum, which would cause most liquids to evaporate almost instantly. To overcome this, the MIT team used an ionic liquid called DMPI-TFSI, which remains stable even in a powerful vacuum. Though the observations used this specific liquid, the results are believed to apply to most liquids, including water.

The results are published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology by a team of researchers led by Ju Li, an MIT professor of nuclear science and engineering and materials science and engineering, along with researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Pittsburgh, and Zhejiang University in China.

While Li says this research intended to explore the basic science of liquid-solid interactions, it could lead to applications in inkjet printing, or for making a lab on a chip. "We're really looking at fluid flow at an unprecedented small length scale," Li says -- so unexpected new phenomena could emerge as the research continues.

At molecular scale, Li says, "the liquid tries to cover the solid surface, and it gets sucked up by capillary action." At the smallest scales, when the liquid forms a film less than 10 nanometers thick, it moves as a smooth layer (called a "precursor film"); as the film gets thicker, an instability (called a Rayleigh instability) sets in, causing droplets to form, but the droplets remain connected via the precursor film. In some cases, these droplets continue to move up the nanowire, while in other cases the droplets appear stationary even as the liquid within them flows upward.

The difference between the smooth precursor film and the beads, Li says, is that in the thinner film, each molecule of liquid is close enough to directly interact, through quantum-mechanical effects, with the molecules of the solid buried beneath it; this force suppresses the Rayleigh instability that would otherwise cause beading. But with or without beading, the upward flow of the liquid, defying the pull of gravity, is a continuous process that could be harnessed for small-scale liquid transport.

Although this upward pull is always present with wires at this tiny scale, the effect can be further enhanced in various ways: Adding an electric voltage on the wire increases the force, as does a slight change in the profile of the wire so that it tapers toward one end. The researchers used nanowires made of different materials -- silicon, zinc oxide and tin oxide, as well as two-dimensional graphene -- to demonstrate that this process applies to many different materials.

Nanowires are less than one-tenth the diameter of fluidic devices now used in biological and medical research, such as micropipettes, and one-thousandth the diameter of hypodermic needles. At these small scales, the researchers found, a solid nanowire is just as effective at holding and transferring liquids as a hollow tube. This smaller scale might pave the way for new kinds of microelectromechanical systems to carry out research on materials at a molecular level.

The methodology the researchers developed allows them to study the interactions between solids and liquid flow "at almost the smallest scale you could define a fluid volume, which is 5 to 10 nanometers across," Li says. The team now plans to examine the behavior of different liquids, using a "sandwich" of transparent solid membranes to enclose a liquid, such as water, for examination in a transmission electron microscope. This will allow "more systematic studies of solid-liquid interactions," Li says -- interactions that are relevant to corrosion, electrodeposition and the operation of batteries.

The research was supported by Sandia National Laboratories, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the National Science Foundation.

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1. Jian Yu Huang, Yu-Chieh Lo, Jun Jie Niu, Akihiro Kushima, Xiaofeng Qian, Li Zhong, Scott X. Mao, Ju Li. Nanowire liquid pumps. Nature Nanotechnology, 2013; DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2013.41

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