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[greysanatodemi]

[mayasdeluca]

Camilla Luddington and Jessica Capshaw First Responders Reunion 

[operativenightingale]

as someone who only really ships the idea and the chemistry of calzona, and really really really should know better, is there anyone that ships them that isn't overly indulgent towards arizona and doesn't seem to blame callie for not bringing the moon down for her or something, even at her own expense, especially at her own expense?

[fatehbaz]

On January 18, 2023, as thousands of Peruvians were taking to the streets in Lima to denounce the spiralling political crisis in the country, Canadian Ambassador Louis Marcotte was meeting with the Peruvian Minister of Energy and Mines.

Protests have been ongoing since December [2022] [...]. Demonstrators have been met with widespread arrests and brutal violence. According to Yves Engler, since [protests began] [...] the Canadian mission has met with numerous top-level Peruvian officials in unprecedented fashion. [...] Ambassador Marcotte tweeted several photos from the meeting, using the occasion to promote mining as a benefit for communities and to express Canadian support for the upcoming Peruvian delegation who will attend the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada’s (PDAC) annual conference in Toronto from March 5 to 8. Each year, the world’s largest mining convention draws tens of thousands of industry experts, company officials, and government representatives to talk industry trends and promote an expansion of mining -- with little concern for the consent of those most affected, including in Peru. [...]

For years, MiningWatch Canada and the Justice and Corporate Accountability Project (JCAP), alongside organizations including Red Muqui, Cooperacción, Derechos Humanos Sin Fronteras-Cusco and Derechos Humanos y Medio Ambiente DHUMA, have documented the many harms caused by industrial large-scale Canadian mining to rural communities, as well as the associated police violence that often accompanies the imposition of these projects. [...] [T]he systematic and often violent exclusion of Indigenous, peasant and rural peoples from the political economic system, as well as the legacies of land dispossession and contamination, are indeed linked to centuries of extractivism.

The ambassador’s tweet has to be taken within a context of centuries of colonial and decades of post-colonial violence against rural peoples at the behest of resource extraction. [...] Ambassador Marcotte chose to promote more Canadian mining investment in the country and plug PDAC 2023 -- where a session dubbed “Peru Day” promises to discuss “opportunities [...].” Canada’s priorities in Peru could not be more clear. [...]

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Canadian companies invested over $8 billion in 10 projects [in 2021] [...]. Toronto-based Hudbay Minerals operates the Constancia mine; Vancouver’s Pan American Silver operates the Shahuindo and La Arena mines; and Teck Resources’, also headquartered in Vancouver, operates the Antamina mine, with a 22.5 percent ownership stake in the project. Antamina is Peru’s largest mine, ranking among the top 10 producing mines in the world in terms of volume, and is the single most important producer of copper, silver, and zinc in the country. In 2021, the mine generated over $6 billion in revenue and nearly $3.7 billion in gross profits. [...]

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When Canadian mining companies are embroiled in a conflict with local communities [...] [in] Peru, companies benefit from state-sanctioned police protection and impunity. Companies can sign service contracts directly with the National Peruvian Police, and off-duty police officers are permitted to work for private security companies while using state property, such as weapons, uniforms and ammunition. [...]

Violence isn’t only used against rural peoples at blockades or during massive marches; it’s a daily occurrence [...].

As the Cusco-based organization Derechos Humanos Sin Fronteras has demonstrated through several environmental and social impact studies related to Hudbay’s Constancia mine, these contracts not only permit explicit state violence, they also form the backdrop of racialized and class-based intimidation and threats [...].

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These harms are not minimal: contamination of agricultural lands and waterways around Pan American Silver’s Quiruvilca mine and the criminalization of community leaders and land dispossession due to environmental contamination at Shahuindo; violation of Indigenous self-determination and the right to a clean environment around Plateau Energy’s proposed lithium and uranium mine, sitting atop the region’s most important tropical glacier; undercutting of economic benefits for communities most affected by mining operations, and more.

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Yet the Canadian embassy in Peru has a track record of ignoring the concerns of human rights and environmental defenders affected by Canadian mining projects in the country -- even ignoring the concerns of Canadian citizen Jennifer Moore who was detained in 2017 by Peruvian police while screening a documentary film with Quechua communities affected by Hudbay’s Constancia mine. Moore, who was subsequently banned from re-entering the country [...], is the focus of a recent report by the Justice and Corporate Accountability Project (JCAP) on the role of Canadian embassies in prioritizing the interests of Canadian mining companies at the expense of their own policies and commitments regarding the protection of human rights defenders. [...]

But it should be made clear: when the [Canadian] embassy chooses to promote mining in Peru during PDAC, it is doing so knowing the reality of what these activities mean for people who are facing ongoing threats, intimidation, and explicit state-sponsored violence.

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Headline and text by: Kirsten Francescone. “State-sanctioned violence in Peru and the role of Canadian mining.” Canadian Dimension. 6 March 2023. [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks and contractions added by me.]

[spookyrobbins]

im still not sure why they even decided that mark and callie should have a baby. it's such a pointless storyline. like why.

honestly no idea it’s so pointless. like i understand why they had to write arizona going to africa for jcap’s pregnancy (although honestly, they probs could’ve just had arizona at a conference or something where she was gone for a bit). but it wasn’t like sara ramirez was also pregnant and they were just writing that in. it was super unnecessary

if they wanted storylines for them, there were a million different options and yet they went for the pregnancy one

[pearlcages]

I love this chapter! Callie taking responsibility for her actions and her part in the divorce is everything I wanted to see. Also, such a small thing, but I'm loving how Callie's noticing the differences in Arizona now vs. 10 years ago, but she's no less attracted to her. It's so sweet.

UGH so that line was completely, 100% inspired by the fact that jcap’s dimples literally do sit lower in her cheeks now & i thought that was an incredibly romantic thing for a person to notice about another person. it’s almost intimate to watch someone age

[simpybaka]

Assigned Vector at corridor,

I indentity as orthogonal,

My pronouns are î/jcap/kcap

[spacetimewithstuartgary]

Glimmers of antimatter to explain the "dark" part of the universe

Traces of antimatter in cosmic rays reopen the search for 'WIMPs' as dark matter

One of the great challenges of modern cosmology is to reveal the nature of dark matter. We know it exists (it constitutes over 85% of the matter in the Universe), but we have never seen it directly and still do not know what it is. A new study published in JCAP has examined traces of antimatter in the cosmos that could reveal a new class of never-before-observed particles, called WIMP (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles), which could make up dark matter. The study suggests that some recent observations of "antinuclei" in cosmic rays are consistent with the existence of WIMPs, but also that these particles may be even stranger than previously thought.

"WIMPs are particles that have been theorized but never observed, and they could be the ideal candidate for dark matter," explains Pedro De la Torre Luque, a physicist at the Institute of theoretical physics in Madrid other and other particles only through gravity and the weak interaction force, one of the four fundamental forces that operates only at very close distances."

A few years ago, the scientific community hailed a "miracle": WIMPs seemed to meet all the requirements for dark matter, and it was thought—once it was "imagined" what they could be and how they could be detected—that within a few years we would have the first direct evidence of their existence. On the contrary, research in recent years has led to the exclusion of entire classes of these particles, based on their peculiar emissions. Today, although their existence has not been entirely ruled out, the range of possible WIMP types has narrowed significantly, along with the methodologies for trying to detect them. "Of the numerous best-motivated proposed models, most have been ruled out today and only a few of them survive today," says De la Torre Luque.

A recent discovery, however, seems to have reopened the case. "These are some observations from the AMS-02 experiment," De la Torre Luque explains. AMS-02 (Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer) is a scientific experiment aboard the International Space Station that studies cosmic rays. "The project leaders revealed that they detected traces of antinuclei in cosmic rays, specifically antihelium, which no one expected."

To understand why these antinuclei are important for WIMPs and dark matter, one must first understand what antimatter is.

Antimatter is a form of matter with electrical charge opposite to that of "normal" matter particles. If you've followed physics lessons in school, you'll know that ordinary matter, the stuff around us, is made up of particles with negative electric charge, like electrons, positive charge (protons), or neutral charge. Antimatter is composed of "mirror" particles with opposite charges (a "positive" electron, the positron, a "negative" proton, etc.). When matter and antimatter meet, they annihilate each other, emitting strong gamma radiation. In our universe, composed overwhelmingly of normal matter, there is a small amount of antimatter, sometimes closer than one might think, given that positrons are used as contrast agents for PET, the medical imaging exam that some of you may have undergone.

Some of this antimatter was formed—scientists believe—during the Big Bang, but more is constantly created by specific events, which makes it very significant to observe. "If you see the production of antiparticles in the interstellar medium, where you expect very little, it means something unusual is happening," De la Torre Luque explains. "That's why the observation of antihelium was so exciting."

What produces the antihelium nuclei observed by AMS-02 could indeed be WIMPs. According to the theory, when two WIMP particles meet, in some cases they annihilate, meaning they destroy each other, emitting energy and producing both matter and antimatter particles. De la Torre Luque and his colleagues have tested some of the WIMP models to see if they are compatible with the observations.

The study confirmed that some observations of antihelium are hard to explain with known astrophysical phenomena. "Theoretical predictions suggested that, even though cosmic rays can produce antiparticles through interactions with gas in the interstellar medium, the amount of antinuclei, especially antihelium, should be extremely low," De la Torre Luque explains. "We expected to detect one antihelium event every few tens of years, but the around ten antihelium events observed by AMS-02 are many orders of magnitude higher than the predictions based on standard cosmic-ray interactions. That's why these antinuclei are a plausible clue to WIMP annihilation."

But there may be more. The antihelium nuclei observed by AMS-02 are of two distinct isotopes (the same element, but with a varying number of neutrons in the nucleus), antihelium-3 and antihelium-4. Antihelium-4, in particular, is much heavier and also much rarer.

We know that the production of heavier nuclei becomes increasingly unlikely as their mass increases, especially through natural processes involving cosmic rays, which is why seeing so many of them is a warning sign. "Even in the most optimistic models, WIMPs could only explain the amount of antihelium-3 detected, but not antihelium-4," De la Torre Luque continues, and this would require imagining a particle (or class of particles) even stranger than the WIMPs proposed so far, or in technical jargon, even more "exotic."

Thus, De la Torre Luque and his colleagues' study indicates that the path toward WIMPs is not yet closed. Many more precise observations are now needed, and we may have to expand or adapt the theoretical model, perhaps introducing a new dark sector into the standard model of known particles to date, with new "exotic" elements.

TOP IMAGE: The image shows the predicted flux of antihelium-3 produced from dark matter (WIMPs) that annihilate producing these antinuclei. Each color represents the prediction for a different mass of dark matter, as shown in the legend. The bands are almost touching the AMS-02 sensitivity, which means that in some optimistic cases, WIMPs can explain this discrepancy. Credit De la Torre Luque et al.

CENTRE IMAGE: Predicted flux of antideuterons produced from dark matter (WIMPs) that  annihilate producing these antinuclei. Each color represents the prediction for a different mass of dark matter, as shown in the legend. We see that WIMPs can produce the antideuteron flux observed by AMS-02 as well. Credit De la Torre Luque et al.

LOWER IMAGE: Expected antihelium-3 flux produced from the interactions of cosmic rays (high-energy particles in the Galaxy, mainly protons and helium) with the gas in the interstellar medium. Credit De la Torre Luque

BOTTOM IMAGE: Expected antideuteron flux produced from the interactions of cosmic rays (high-energy particles in the Galaxy, mainly protons and helium) with the gas in the interstellar medium. These are compared with the flux of antideuteron that different experiments can detect (GAPs, the experiment that will be launched by the end of this year, and AMS-02, that has two detectors, the RICH and the TOF). In this figure you can see that the flux produced (the blue band) from cosmic-ray interactions may explain some events observed by the AMS experiment.  Credit De la Torre Luque et al.

[hagaishi-sama]

"Best Bout Replays" WWF Wrestlemania AG - JCap vs MARMAR215

[skyefullofdaisies]

Oh gosh yes.. Jaggie was worse than anything! And it was Krusta. She didn’t like Japril and wrote it to match her personally. Just like she fired any writer that didn’t agree w her vision when she came on. But yeah, they knew everyone hated Maggie and thought her being w Jackson would make her popular. But couldn’t do it w April as an option. So they had April say he liked Maggie then Krusta used it all to get rid of April, even though faith loss sl was Sarah’s amazing idea. Jesse was pissed when he found out. Poor JCap was just to pull focus from what they did. But the audience isn’t as stupid as them and we just hated Maggie more. Her character is annoying, not the actresses fault though. But it was Krusta 💯 %

She had to eat her mistakes in the end. B*tch bye! U fired!! Japril Endgame Haha

Absolutely, 100% agreed. It will never not be funny how it backfired in her face.

[gaetaniu]

Con Laniakea la tensione di Hubble sale

Il Superammasso Laniakea. Uno dei grandi misteri della cosmologia è la cosiddetta tensione di Hubble, che deriva dalla nostra apparente incapacità di determinare con precisione la velocità di espansione cosmica. Uno studio pubblicato su JCap ha esplorato l’idea che il tasso di espansione dell’universo dentro Laniakea sia diverso da quello all’esterno, a causa della differente distribuzione di…

[piouscatholic]

𝗡𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗡𝗔 𝗧𝗢 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗔𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗧 - 𝗗𝗔𝗬 𝟭 ❤️🔥⛪🕯️🙏🏼

WHAT DO YOU DESIRE?

𝘛𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺’𝘴 𝘚𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦

The next day John again was standing with two of his disciples, and as he watched Jesus walk by, he exclaimed, ‘Look, here is the Lamb of God!’ The two disciples heard him say this, and they followed Jesus. (John 1: 35-37)

𝘙𝘦𝘧𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘢𝘺

Jesus addresses the same question to you at the beginning of this novena: ‘What do you want?’ St. Augustine said that all our desires are really a longing for God in disguise; where there is real desire, there is prayer. So, be at peace in your desire, you are already praying!

𝘛𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺’𝘴 𝘗𝘳𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳

Lord, I come to you at the start of this novena with a muddle of desires. Give me courage, to listen to what you want to say to me about these desires and give me the strength to accept your loving desires for me and for my loved ones.

𝘋𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘐𝘯𝘷𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯

Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you.

𝘕𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘢 𝘗𝘳𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳

Lord Jesus, the needs of your people open your heart in love for each of us. You care for us when we are lost, sympathize with us in loneliness, and comfort us in mourning; you are closest to us where we are weakest. You love us most when we love ourselves least; you forgive us most when we forgive ourselves least; and you call us to spread your love in whatever way we can.

Lord Jesus, your heart is moved with compassion when we are suffering, when we need your help, and when we pray for each other. I ask you to listen to my prayer during this Novena, and grant what I ask. (Mention your intention silently.) If what I ask is not for my own good and the good of others, grant me what is best, that I may build up your kingdom of love in our world. Amen.

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us! 🙏🏼

Text from novenas.sacredspace.ie

#Jesuits #JCAP #SacredHeartOfJesus #Novena #Day1 #Love #InspiredByIgnatius

[mayasdeluca]

Epic cons has 40+ guests aside from Danielle and Stefania who would you want to meet and what would you ask if given the chance?

It's insane!

If money was not a factor (lol) I would meet quite a few of them. I would love to meet Alberto, he seems amazing and would love to get his thoughts on what he thinks a Carina/Ryan friendship would look like if Ryan was still alive and how he thinks Ryan would be involved in Marina's lives in general if he was still on the show. Jay seems like he would be fun to meet too so I think I'd want to meet him also.

I think meeting Kate Walsh would be cool too but also intimidating lol I don't know what I'd ask her. Same with JCap because she seems fun. Maybe I'd ask Kate what she thinks about a Carina/Addison dynamic since we barely got anything between them. We should have gotten more. Kim is another one who seems really sweet that would be nice to meet.

There's a few actors from 911 Lone Star going but none of the ones that I would really want to meet from the cast.

[shvpcrd]

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[fatehbaz]

In 2023, "the world's largest mining convention" took great interest in Latin America. With the active help of the Canadian federal government, Canadian mining companies are moving to expand their power in Peru and Ecuador.

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On January 18, 2023, as thousands of Peruvians were taking to the streets in Lima to denounce the spiralling political crisis in the country, Canadian Ambassador Louis Marcotte was meeting with the Peruvian Minister of Energy and Mines. [...]. Demonstrators have been met with widespread arrests and brutal violence. [...] [S]ince [protests began] [...] the Canadian mission has met with numerous top-level Peruvian officials in unprecedented fashion. [...] Ambassador Marcotte tweeted several photos from the meeting, using the occasion to promote mining as a benefit for communities and to express Canadian support for the upcoming Peruvian delegation who will attend the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada’s (PDAC) annual conference in Toronto from March 5 to 8 [2023]. Each year, the world’s largest mining convention draws tens of thousands of [...] company officials, and government representatives to [...] promote an expansion of mining -- with little concern for the consent of those most affected, including in Peru. [...] For years, MiningWatch Canada and the Justice and Corporate Accountability Project (JCAP), alongside organizations including Red Muqui, Cooperacción, Derechos Humanos Sin Fronteras-Cusco and Derechos Humanos y Medio Ambiente DHUMA, have documented the many harms caused by industrial large-scale Canadian mining to rural communities [...]. Ambassador Marcotte chose to promote more Canadian mining investment in the country and plug PDAC 2023 -- where a session dubbed “Peru Day” promises to discuss “opportunities [...].” Canada’s priorities in Peru could not be more clear. [...]

Text by: Kirsten Francescone. “State-sanctioned violence in Peru and the role of Canadian mining.” Canadian Dimension. 6 March 2023. [Bold emphasis added by me.]

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Canadian companies invested over $8 billion in 10 projects [in Peru in 2021] [...]. Toronto-based Hudbay Minerals operates the Constancia mine; Vancouver’s Pan American Silver operates the Shahuindo and La Arena mines; and Teck Resources’, also headquartered in Vancouver, operates the Antamina mine, with a 22.5 percent ownership stake in the project. Antamina is Peru’s largest mine, ranking among the top 10 producing mines in the world in terms of volume, and is the single most important producer of copper, silver, and zinc in the country. In 2021, the mine generated over $6 billion in revenue and nearly $3.7 billion in gross profits. [...] Companies can sign service contracts directly with the National Peruvian Police, and off-duty police officers are permitted to work for private security companies while using state property, such as weapons, uniforms and ammunition. [...] These harms are not minimal: contamination of agricultural lands and waterways around Pan American Silver’s Quiruvilca mine and the criminalization of community leaders and land dispossession due to environmental contamination at Shahuindo; violation of Indigenous self-determination and the right to a clean environment around Plateau Energy’s proposed lithium and uranium mine, sitting atop the region’s most important tropical glacier; undercutting of economic benefits for communities most affected by mining operations, and more.

Text by: Kirsten Francescone. “State-sanctioned violence in Peru and the role of Canadian mining.” Canadian Dimension. 6 March 2023. [Bold emphasis added by me.]

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Two Canadian mining companies are drawing the ire of activists and Indigenous groups in Ecuador, where the government [...] is using Toronto-based Adventus Mining’s Curipamba copper-gold project in Las Naves and Vancouver-headquartered Atico Mining’s La Plata project in Sigchos as test sites to impose a new and controversial process for environmental consultation under Decree 754 -- an executive edict issued on May 31 [2023] that has been roundly denounced as unconstitutional and illegal. Decree 754 [...] affords communities no rights to veto development projects on their lands. [...] The pro-mining [...] government, which swept to power in 2021, passed the decree a few weeks after dissolving the elected national assembly and proceeding to govern by executive fiat. National protests subsequently erupted [...]. [P]residential elections [are] scheduled for August 20 [2023]. [...] Residents of Las Naves and Sigchos have faced heavily armed military and police forces, which have come in to break up protests [...]. Stephen Potter, Canada’s ambassador to Ecuador, who was in Las Naves to visit Adventus’s Curipamba project at the beginning of June [2023], said in an interview that the mine is a “responsible investment that has the support of the community.” [...] There has also been ongoing conflict and opposition tied to other Canadian mining projects, including in the Ecuadorian Amazon where the Shuar Arutam people have denounced the militarization of their territory to advance Vancouver-based Solaris Resources’ Warintza copper project. [...]

Text by: Viviana Herrera and Ivonne Ramos. "Violence surrounds Canadian mining projects in Ecuador." Canadian Dimension. 4 August 2023. [Bold emphasis added by me.]

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[T]he [...] government is on the cusp of signing a free trade agreement with Canada and becoming the “next destination for mining.” Only two mines are currently in operation in Ecuador [...]. In September 2022, [...] Ecuador’s Minister of Mines and Energy [...] announced six new ‘strategic’ mining projects. Five of these will be led by Canadian firms [...]. According to the minister, these projects may [against existing laws] obtain an environmental license without the requirement for prior consultation [with local communities,]. This announcement happened after one of the largest national strikes in the country called by CONAIE, demanding the [...] government issue a moratorium on mining and nullify another decree -- Executive Decree 151 -- that would allow for mining in the Amazon [...]. Earlier this year, [the Minister of Mines and Energy] spoke in Toronto at the annual conference of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC), the world’s largest mining convention, about Ecuador’s plans to become Latin America’s next premier mining destination by speeding up project approvals and signing a new trade pact with Ottawa. “A free trade agreement with Canada would make Ecuador the best mining destination,” he reassured investors. [...] With $3.7 billion invested, Canada is the leading foreign investor in Ecuador, and the majority is already invested in the country’s mining sector. [...]

Text by: Viviana Herrera and Ivonne Ramos. "Violence surrounds Canadian mining projects in Ecuador." Canadian Dimension. 4 August 2023. [Bold emphasis added by me.]

[spookyrobbins]

Imo the interpretation of Arizona as disney adult mostly comes from the way she was introduced. She was introduced like this perky happy person with pigtails and heelys and Bailey even described her as such (i think she says "infant on rollerskates" or something like that). Plus jcap's high pitched voice and the way she speaks and moves which also make Arizona seem younger/more childish, like idk for example the little jumps she does sometimes. She's really not acting mature in the first two seasons tbh

it’s really interesting that you find her to be somewhat immature in the first few seasons. i can defs see in her initial set of episodes how she comes off as perky and borderline childish but even then she’s also got some incredibly serious moments.

i think that part of it is that she’s incredibly one dimensional (through large chunks of her run but particularly when she’s introduced). and so people are basically just taking the easiest interpretation of arizona and excluding a ton of moments where she does have more depth (ie telling callie about tim, her moments with her patients, etc). where i think my characterization differs is that i tend to take that one dimensionalness and make it a feature not a bug, taking the perky, smiley persona and moving away from that as her default setting and turning it into more of a mask than her true personality.