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Progress of Reproducing the Mizuno’s Experiment in QiuRan Lab Hang Zhang and Si Chen Email: 715469127@qq.com The objective of this study was to independently reproduce Mizuno’s experiment. We replicated the D2(H2)-Pd(Ni) reaction system reported in the literature[1]. On the other hand, we developed a different calorimetric system employing two calorimeters to measure the heat generated by the reaction system. One is a Seebeck calorimeter and the other is based on the hydrothermal temperature difference. We improved the reliability of the Seebeck so that it achieves 0.1W accuracy consistently. We operated the D2(H2)-Pd(Ni) reaction system at different conditions. The following...

BORIS Johnson will unleash an all-out war on drugs this week in a massive drive to clean up Britain’s crime-plagued streets. The PM is targeting dealers, addicts and casual users who he believes are the root cause of half of all burglaries and violent robberies.... ...In an exclusive interview with The Sun on Sunday, Mr Johnson says politicians have dithered over the scourge for too long — sometimes because they once dabbled in drugs themselves... ...The country is ­littered with victims of what’s happened. We are going to look at new ways of penalising them. "Things that will actually interfere...

New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was slammed by Republicans and business leaders following an interview where she cast doubt on whether rampant smash-and-grabs are actually occurring. "A lot of these allegations of organized retail theft are not actually panning out," Ocasio-Cortez said in an interview with The Washington Times last week. "I believe it’s a Walgreens in California cited it, but the data didn’t back it up," she added.... ...The comments sparked pushback from retail leaders and Republican lawmakers, including from Walgreens. ... ...Indiana Republican Rep. Jim Banks said Ocasio-Cortez’s comments were "tone-deaf and offensive" to the family of Oakland...

Mauritania, an impoverished, sparsely populated desert country in North-West Africa has the highest proportion of hereditary slavery of any country in the world.1 Out of 4.75 million citizens, Global Slavery Index estimates the number living in hereditary slavery in the country to be 90,000 people.2 In practice, this is descent-based, chattel slavery that treats human beings as property, with violent enforcement. Modern slavery or “slave-like conditions” prevail for up to 500,000 more.3 Slavery in Mauritania is also a racial slavery.4 In a country that has a largely destitute population, Mauritania’s Arabic-speaking Arab-Berber elite, an exclusionary and predatory group that self-identifies...

A brutal mob killing of a Sri Lankan man accused of blasphemy in Pakistan has sparked protests in both countries, with Pakistan's leader condemning the vigilante violence. Priyantha Diyawadanage, 48, a factory manager in the city of Sialkot, was beaten to death on Friday and his body set alight. More than 100 people have been arrested so far, said Pakistan PM Imran Khan. He has described the incident as a "day of shame" for his country. The victim's family in Sri Lanka have told the BBC they are in despair. His wife, Nilushi Dissanayaka, called on both Pakistan and Sri...

NYC's bagel cafes are making pleas for cream cheese amidst a growing supply chain shortage, with many just days away from running out of the classic spread From Zabar's to Pick-a-Bagel, bagel makers citywide say they barely have a few days' supply left, threatening to take a NYC delicacy off the menu indefinitely Absolute Bagels on the Upper West Side currently has enough cream cheese to last them until Thursday Nick Patta of Absolute Bagels said that his Queens-based cream cheese supplier had run out of cream cheese for the first time that in over a decade New York bagel...

China is attempting to woo Equatorial Guinea into allowing them to build a military base off their coast, according to a report - a move which would give Beijing a foothold in the Atlantic, and deeply worry Washington.... ...Were China to convert the Bata port into a military base, it would enable Beijing to repair and rearm their warships and other naval equipment in the same waters in which the US Eastern Seaboard sits. ....U.S. government lawyers accused the president's son - whose Instagram account shows him meeting world leaders such as the Pope and Israel's prime minister; playing polo,...

Imani Oakley's campaign was duped into almost planning a fundraiser with a nonexistent rabbi. A lefty New Jersey Democrat learned the hard way that not all rabbis are kosher. The campaign of Imani Oakley, a 31-year-old progressive activist running for Congress in Newark, thought it was in negotiations to organize a fundraiser with like-minded Linda Goldstein — the “chief rabbi” of Gaza — but instead were chatting up a Big Apple lawyer running a parody Twitter account. On the bizarre parody account, Rabbi Linda Goldstein warns Hamas fighters to practice social distancing in terror tunnels; posts photos of herself posing...

The Chancellor of the State University of New York is facing calls to resign over his decision to ridicule one of former governor Andrew Cuomo's sex accusers. James Malatras has been urged to step down from his $450,000-a-year post at Albany headquartered-SUNY after a probe revealed he'd written 'Let's release some of her cray emails,' of Lindsey Boylan..Last week, Boylan slammed a female Cuomo staffer turned Facebook exec, Dani Leverm for trying to 'destroy' her by telling the then-governor's team to 'victim shame her on the record' by releasing her personal file. Boylan tweeted out a defiant message as more...

ICYMI, here’s a chart from a recent post by my good friend Mathew Crawford. It basically shows, the more you vaccinate, the more cases and deaths you get.Critics would argue, “it’s confounded! more elderly are vaccinated.” But the same critics cannot show us this is false. They can only do “hand-waving” arguments that it must be wrong. Not very convincing.But to be fair, we can’t cite this as definitive proof either that the vaccines are unsafe.Governments won’t release the data to show vaccinations are safe. I wonder why?We actually agree with the critics that it is confounded but here’s why:...

A mangrove is a shrub or tree that grows in coastal saline or brackish water, first appearing during the Late Cretaceous to Paleocene epochs, and became widely distributed in part due to the movement of tectonic plates. The San Pedro Martir mangrove forest was once on the shores of a vast ocean where the temperature was much warmer, but is now situated more than 170 kilometres inland due to climatic changes in sea levels. The forest offers a snapshot of the ancient past, allowing scientists to understand how environments adapted to changing sea levels as the global climate changed... In...

December 6th, 2021 Mikołajki / Feast of St. Nicholas St. Nicholas Church, Kościół Mikołaja, Lubliniec, Poland Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet First readingIsaiah 35:1-10 ©The return of the redeemed through the desertLet the wilderness and the dry-lands exult,let the wasteland rejoice and bloom,let it bring forth flowers like the jonquil,let it rejoice and sing for joy.The glory of Lebanon is bestowed on it,the splendour of Carmel and Sharon;they shall see the glory of the Lord,the splendour of our God.Strengthen all weary hands,steady all trembling kneesand say to all faint hearts,‘Courage! Do not be afraid.‘Look, your God is coming,vengeance is coming,the...

“So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent. Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry; But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house. But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul" (Proverbs 6:29-32).

Members of the Fort Worth Independent School District’s Racial Equity Committee came to the defense of their co-chair Norma Garcia-Lopez on Thursday, after she received dozens of threatening and racist phone and social media messages in November.... ...after a Fox News article reported that Garcia-Lopez doxxed the people who filed a lawsuit against the Fort Worth school district over its mandatory mask mandate this summer.... ..."Some people consider my actions doxxing," Garcia-Lopez said in a prepared statement. "It's not doxxing when you expose someone who filed a public motion in a public court of law that impacts public school children."...

There has been a significant rise in new SARS-CoV-2 infections in the Gauteng Province in the last four weeks which has been attributed to the new Omicron variant announced on 24 November 2021. The first cases of Omicron were detected in the Tshwane District and coincided with the sharp rise in new infections, heralding the onset of the fourth wave in Gauteng.Tshwane has been the global epicentre of the Omicron Outbreak and the Gauteng Province Fourth Wave with the weekly number of cases rising exponentially over several weeks, reaching just over 8569 cases in Epi Week 47 (21 November -November...

A Twitter user recently raised the alarm by posting a screenshot of a tracker app showing about 100 sharks gathering in the Atlantic Ocean near the East Coast of the US. A platform user with the handle @punished_stu tweeted early Wednesday “sharks are amassing on the east coast” with an accompanying screenshot of about 100 sharks along the US coast line. The tweet went viral, garnering more than 6,000 retweets and 53,000 likes. “I occasionally log in to check that the nearest Great White is at least 2000 miles away,” the Twitter user followed up. The graphic came from shark...

Sean Spicer predicts current Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will be the 2024 Democratic nominee for President - Via Newsmax's 'Dick Morris Democracy.'

(CNN)Using the Johnson & Johnson vaccine as a booster for people initially immunized with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine produces a strong immune response and may do more to elicit protection against severe disease, researchers reported Sunday. Their small study of 65 volunteers who all initially got two doses of Pfizer/BioNTech's vaccine showed that using the J&J Janssen vaccine as a booster produced a slower but more sustained antibody response against the original strain of the virus, as well as the Delta and Beta variants, they said.... ...after four weeks, antibody levels began to drop off in people who got boosted with...

Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) on Sunday blasted Dr. Fauci for his failed Covid response and for sabotaging early treatment using cheap, available, generic drugs. “I ask a simple question, did Dr. Fauci’s response to COVID-19 work? 788,000 lives lost, many because he ignored and sabotaged early treatment using cheap, available, generic drugs in favor of a vaccine that is not as safe or effective as we all hoped it would be. The Gateway Pundit has reported extensively this past year on the effects of hydroxychloroquine in treating the COVID-19 virus.There have now been 67 Ivermectin COVID-19 controlled studies that show...

Even though she's still in primary school, the Australian pre-teen has created her own company called Pixie's Fidgets - with her mum Roxy's help of course. The mum-and-daughter officially launched the toy business in May - and in the first 48 hours, their colourful popping toys had completely sold out. What's more, PR guru Roxy told Stellar that the company turned over $200,000 [£105k] in its first month.