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Treasure Trove of Spectacular Fossils Found in-china

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1-       Christina De Felipe
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A. Who?   Xingliang Zhang, Dongjing Fu
B. What? A 518 million year old on the banks of a Chinese river has revealed a lot of ancient fossils.
C. How? They were searching for good shale territory for fossil when they found the location.
D. Where? Qingjiang, China.
E. When?  Summer of 2007, but the research was released today..
F. Why?  This discovery gives incredible insight into the Cambrian age, as the 'explosion' of life that occurred can be seen in the preserved anatomy.

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A wealth of ancient remains found by chance on the banks of a river in China are some of the most astoundingly preserved fossils now known on Earth, researchers report today in the journal Science.

The 518-million-year-old site, called Qingjiang, joins just a few places around the world where fossil preservation is so extraordinary, it captures even soft-bodied animals. Called Lagerstätten, these special types of deposits include Canada's famous Burgess shale, which dates to 507 million years ago, and China's Chengjiang locality, which formed at about the same time as Qingjiang but in shallower waters.

"Most fossil localities throughout all of time are going to preserve the shelly things, the hard things ... [but] what these localities give you is anatomy," says Harvard paleontologist Joanna Wolfe, an expert on Cambrian life who wasn't involved in the study. "These are the best of the best."

So far, researchers have identified 101 animal species in the remains, and more than half of them are brand-new to science. "I can see a bright future," says lead study author Dongjing Fu, a paleontologist at Northwest University in Xi'an, China. "Qingjiang will be the next Burgess shale."

The discovery adds substantially to our knowledge of the early Cambrian period, when animal life exploded onto the scene in spectacular fashion. In just a few tens of millions of years, complex marine ecosystems sprung up all around the world, teeming with creatures that form the base of today's major animal groups. It's thought that many factors triggered this unprecedented radiation of species-from new shallow marine habitats to the evolution of DNA regulation, which enabled the formation of segmented body plans.

"To find a site where over half is brand-new is pretty unexpected-we felt that we had a pretty good handle on diversity at this time," says University of Lausanne paleontologist Allison Daley, an expert on Cambrian creatures who wasn't involved with the study. "It's really, really exciting!"

Gulliver's (Time) Travels

Fu and her coauthor Xingliang Zhang, Fu's former Ph.D. advisor, found the site in the summer of 2007 while combing through the rocks of southern China for fossil material. Fighting the summer heat, Fu and Zhang were walking along a river when they happened to see some promising shale on the riverbank. When they started digging, they immediately found an eye-catching fossil: Leanchoilia, a shrimp-like creature known from other Cambrian sites.

Now, after four field seasons, Fu and Zhang's team has a pretty good sense of what it'd be like to go back in time and swim through this ecosystem. For one, the jaunt into the past might feel like an undersea version of Gulliver's Travels- you'd by far be the biggest animal in the deep. Life at Qingjiang topped out at about six inches long, if that.

As you floated along, a rich undersea drama would play out in front of you. Trilobites would scuttle across the ocean floor past primitive sea anemones gripping the bottom with their fleshy holdfasts. Branching algae and about 20 varieties of sponges, all different colors and sizes, would add living texture to the scene. And wormlike creatures called lobopodia would clamber by, wriggling across the seafloor on their stubby legs.

Occasionally, some creature buried in the sediment would pop its head up, only to retreat into its protective subterranean lair. And then, just as you least expect it, the ecosystem's odd-looking apex predator would dart by: Anomalocaris, a creature with mouthparts that look like side-by-side shrimp. Jellyfish would hypnotically drift in the waters as comb jellies flit by, the rows of hairlike combs on their sides glittering like rainbows.

Soft bodies, hard questions

Qingjiang's exquisite comb jelly fossils could help scientists further unravel an evolutionary mystery that's been raging for years: Where do these unusual animals, which still exist today, fit on the tree of life?

Though comb jellies superficially resemble true jellyfish, the two sets of squishy blobs aren't direct relatives and might be only faintly related. Early work suggested that sponges were the most simple, ancient offshoot of the animal family tree, with comb jellies later forking from the line that yielded jellyfish and, eventually, us.

But for the last decade or so, DNA analyses have suggested that comb jellies are a more removed family member than even sponges. If so, does that mean the comb jelly nervous system evolved independently from the ones seen in jellyfish and humans? To help resolve this debate, it's helpful to have detailed fossils from this early time period, but they'd have to be good enough to preserve a comb jelly's goopy, ghostly form-which is where Lagerstätten sitescome in.

In independent work publishing today in Current Biology, other paleontologistsmake the claim that previously known Cambrian sites, such as the Chengjiang locality and the Burgess shale, contain fossils of the most ancestral comb jellies. If they're right, the ur-comb jelly isn't what anyone expected: a flower-shaped filter-feeder that anchored itself to the seafloor.

"Looking at these fossils and just seeing how they all fit together-the plot was just thickening," says study coauthor Jakob Vinther, a paleobiologist at the University of Bristol. "That was one of those rare eureka moments that you can only dream of as a scientist."

Protecting the past

The researchers argue that new fossils from Chengjiang, such as the filter-feeder Daihua, show some traits of a comb jelly, including rows of hairlike projections called cilia. And when they compared the new fossils with Dinomischus-an enigmatic creature recovered from the Burgess shale-they came to a startling conclusion: Dinomischus and the new fossils are not only related, but they also represent the close cousins of the comb jellies' common ancestors. If so, comb jellies would fall closer to the jellyfish branch on the tree of life than previously thought.

For now, experts on modern comb jellies are treating Vinther's claims with caution.

"This paper strikes me as seeing the webbed feet and bill of a platypus and saying it must be a duck, [despite the fact that] it doesn't fly like a duck, or quack like a duck," says Steven Haddock, a biologist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. "To those familiar with modern comb jellies, the purported correspondence with [these] fossils is equally fanciful."

Vinther welcomes the debate, adding that the newest fossil trove at Qingjiang could help improve the picture: "It's a Pandora's box, every time we find a new site like this. There's still many gaps, there's still many weird wonders."

Fortunately for Vinther and other paleontologists, Fu's team there has only just scratched the surface. "For now, we just have thousands of fossils, but for Chengjiang and the Burgess shale, they have hundreds of thousands," she says.

To ensure that Qingjiang can enjoy the same longevity of Canada's Burgess shale-which has been studied since the 1900s-researchers are already taking steps to protect the site. Fu says that discussions are underway with the local government to protect Qingjiang in similar fashion as Chengjiang, which is both a Chinese protected area and a UNESCO World Heritage site.

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Spectacular new fossil bonanza captures explosion of early life

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A wealth of ancient remains found by chance on the banks of a river in China are some of the most astoundingly preserved fossils now known on Earth, researchers report today in the journal Science . The 518-million-year-old site, called Qingjiang, joins just a few places around the world where fossil preservation is so extraordinary, it captures even soft-bodied animals.

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Florida man pleads guilty in pipe bomb mailings that targeted CNN and Trump critics

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Florida man pleads guilty in pipe bomb mailings that targeted CNN and Trump critics

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NAME: Angelique Miller-Lawson
QUALITY OF NEWS: Proximity/Impact
WHO: A Florida man named Cesar Sayoc, 57 years old
WHAT: He sent multiple dangerous pipe bombs to CNN and important critics of Donald Trump
WHEN: It happened during 2016’s fall midterm elections and he  officially finally pleaded guilty to it on Thursday
WHERE: He had them sent at multiple places spread out in the US...   New York,Bew Jersey, Delaware, California, Etc.
WHY: He wanted to attack people  against Trump like Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and several members of Congress
HOW: He set the bombs in their homes or office which they’re mostly at

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NEW YORK (AP) - A Florida man who authorities say sent pipe bombs to prominent critics of President Donald Trump is expected to plead guilty Thursday.

Cesar Sayoc is scheduled to enter the plea in Manhattan federal court.

The change-of-plea hearing was revealed last week after a phone conference between prosecutors, Sayoc's lawyers and a judge. Sayoc's plea will avert a trial scheduled for July.

Authorities say he targeted numerous Democrats, including former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, the billionaire George Soros, former President Barack Obama and CNN, heightening tensions before midterm elections. No bombs exploded.

Sayoc has been held without bail since his late-October arrest outside a South Florida auto parts store. He had been living in a van covered with stickers of Trump and showing images of some Trump opponents with crosshairs over their faces.

Others targeted by the mailings included former Vice President Joe Biden, California Sen. Kamala Harris and New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker. Packages were also mailed to CNN in New York and Atlanta.

Prosecutors say evidence against Sayoc includes DNA linking him to 10 of the explosive devices and fingerprints on two of them.

Without a plea deal, Sayoc faced charges carrying a potential penalty of mandatory life in prison. A court filing last Friday didn't indicate which charge or charges the plea would involve.
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Florida man poised for guilty plea proceeding in New York

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NEW YORK (AP) - A Florida man who authorities say sent pipe bombs to prominent critics of President Donald Trump is expected to plead guilty Thursday. Cesar Sayoc is scheduled to enter the plea in Manhattan federal court. The change-of-plea hearing was revealed last week after a phone conference between prosecutors, Sayoc's lawyers and a judge.

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Treasure Trove of Spectacular Fossils Found In China

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1-       Christina De Felipe
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New Zealand seeks quick ban on nearly all semi-automatic weapons

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New Zealand seeks quick ban on nearly all semi-automatic weapons

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A. The New Zealand government (specifically Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern)
B. Will add a ban on all semi-automatic weapons, and they will start to give compensation to every person that turns in their weapons for them to destroy
C. They will include this in their Legislation
D. All of New Zealand
E. On Thursday this was announced, six days after the mass shooting
F. This is happening due to the mass shooting that killed 50 people in two mosques
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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced plans to ban nearly all military-style semi-automatic and assault rifles on Thursday, six days after a gunman killed 50 people at two mosques in Christchurch.

At a dramatic news conference, Ardern lamented that previous attempts to reform the country's gun laws had fallen short and declared that "the time for the mass and easy availability of these weapons must end, and today they will."

While Ardern characterized the policy as an immediate ban, she then clarified that it would be submitted to Parliament as legislation the first week of April.

In the meantime, Ardern said, the government will sharply restrict access to "virtually all" such weapons by reclassifying them to require a police permit - which will be denied.

"I can assure people that there is no point in applying for such a permit," she said.

The government will offer generous compensation for New Zealanders to sell their weapons to the government for destruction. She said the buyback program would cost $100 million to $200 million.

Police Minister Stuart Nash said the legislation would include "narrow exemptions for legitimate business use," including use by police, the military and "professional pest control."

A government statement said the practical effect of the exemptions would be to continue to allow possession of .22 caliber semi-automatic "rimfire" firearms with magazines holding no more than 10 rounds, as well as semi-automatic and pump-action shotguns with non-detachable tubular magazines holding no more than five rounds.

"To owners who have legitimate uses for their guns, I want to reiterate that the actions being announced today are not because of you and are not directed at you," Ardern said. "Our actions, on behalf of all New Zealanders, are directed at making sure this never happens again."

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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced plans to ban nearly all military-style semi-automatic and assault rifles on Thursday, six days after a gunman killed 50 people at two mosques in Christchurch.

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Lauren Coll
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A. who? The Loughlin Family was exposed due to paying money to get their daughters into USC.
B. What? Charged with a scandal, in order for Daughters Bella and Olivia Jade to be accepted into USC.
C. How? Payed $500,000
D. Where? Los Angeles, Califronia
E. When? Last week news came out
F. Why? Rich people clearly have nothing better to do with their money other than waste it and do scandals, when their's actual people out in the world that truly NEED and DESERVE it.

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Angels and Mike Trout close to record 12-year, $426.5-million contract

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Angels and Mike Trout close to record 12-year, $426.5-million contract

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a. who? A major league baseball player name Mike Trout who plays for a Major league baseball team called the Los Angeles Angels.
b. what? Mike Trout is finalizing a deal with his team The Angels a 12-year contract that is worth $430 million. The deal is the largest for any player in professional sports history.
c. how? There was rumors of Mike trout being traded or moving to a new team due to the fact of another Baseball player Bryce Harper getting paid $330 million dollars and sparked Mike Trout to want to get paid the same mount. The Los Angeles Angels never had any intention of letting Mike Trout hit free agency following the 2020 season, and so they both agreed to a no opt-out massive contract.
d. where? This took place in Los Angels Facility
e. when? Tuesday morning March 19, 2019
f. why? Since the Angels didn't want to let go Trout and didn't want him to go to the Phillies with Bryce Harper or any other team they decided to pay him the highest paid athlete in the world.

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The Angels and star center fielder Mike Trout on Tuesday morning were finalizing a 12-year, $430-million extension that would be the largest contract in professional sports history, according to a source familiar with the negotiations but unauthorized to comment publicly.

Trout, who is still searching for his first playoff victory in Anaheim, has been the subject of speculation for months now. A native of Millville, N.J., he was tied to the Phillies even before Harper signed there. The rumors ramped up when Harper signed, however, as Harper himself said on multiple occasions he'd do what he could to lure Trout back to the East Coast. He told a Philadelphia radio station, " If you don't think I'm gonna call Mike Trout to come to Philly in 2020, you're crazy."

Though Trout recently built a house in Millville and is an avid fan of Philadelphia's football (Eagles) and basketball (76ers) teams, he seems to have grown to enjoy living in Southern California. Trout, who signed a six-year, $144.5-million deal with the Angels in 2015, has demonstrated that he likes his teammates and feels a deep sense of loyalty to Angels owner Arte Moreno.

Trout may be East Coast born and bred, with a South Jersey blue-collar work ethic, but the laid-back Southern California lifestyle seems to suit him and his wife, Jessica Tara Trout.

The Angels have reached the playoffs only once since Trout, a first-round pick in 2009, was called up to the big leagues in the summer of 2011, getting swept by the Kansas City Royals in the 2014 American League division series after winning 98 games and the American League West title.

Injuries ravaged the rotation and the lineup, and the Angels finished 80-82, far out of the playoff picture. They made incremental moves to upgrade the pitching staff and lineup this past winter, but they're hardly a lock to make the playoffs in 2019.

But the Angels farm system, among the worst in baseball earlier this decade, has improved dramatically - 19-year-old outfielder Jo Adell is ranked among the top 10 prospects in baseball, and right-hander Griffin Canning and left-hander Jose Suarez are on the cusp of the big leagues.

Trout, 27, said in February upon arriving at Angels spring training that all he cared about was getting the opportunity to win. It seems he now may have enough time to meet that goal.

Staff writer Bill Shaikin contributed to this report.

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Angels and Mike Trout close to record 12-year, $430-million contract

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The Angels and star center fielder Mike Trout on Tuesday morning were finalizing a 12-year, $430-million extension that would be the largest contract in professional sports history, according to a source familiar with the negotiations but unauthorized to comment publicly.

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