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Randy Rhoads didn't like several aspects of the white Jackson® offset V RR1, so he commissioned Grover Jackson once again to craft him another guitar, the black Jackson® offset V RR2. According to Rhoads, the fretboard went too far into the body of the white Jackson® RR1, making it much more difficult to reach the higher frets. The black Jackson® RR2 allowed for much more travel up the neck of the guitar. Secondly, the new RR2 would have more definition on the upper wing than the RR1 to avoid any confusion between Jackson's custom masterpiece and a Gibson V.
Grover Jackson had plans to build Rhoads two more guitars, but he waited until he received proper feedback from Rhoads about The black Jackson® RR2. Randy was able to call Jackson and give him his criticism on RR2, but due to his unfortunate passing on March 19th, 1982, Randy Rhoads never received the next two guitars. Grover put away the next two guitars, RR3 and RR4 until the NAMM show. At the NAMM show, the Jackson® RR3 Prototype was accidentally sold - this is the Jackson® guitar RR3 that is now being offered for sale. Randy Rhoads commissioned these Jackson® guitars and they were designed by both Randy Rhoads and Grover Jackson. The Rhoads family is in possession of the first Jackson® guitars, RR1 and RR2. The RR3 Jackson® features innovations such as an Ebony fingerboard with a graphite nut, neck-through-body construction, Seymour Duncan pickups, strings through body construction, an angled headstock, custom brass hardware, high fret accessibility, Charvel/Jackson®'s neck radius, and one volume knob and one tone knob. This custom guitar has no serial number and has a hand-painted Jackson® logo. Custom-made guitar case included.
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The Leitz Photographica Auction House will be holding its 40th auction where a rare Leica 0-Series owned by Oskar Barnack could break current world records. The Leica 0-Series No.105 was produced in 1923 and was a personal camera of Oskar Barnack. Approximately 20 examples of the 0-Series were manufactured as prototypes before the original Leitz 35mm camera was launched in the mid-1920s - only a dozen are estimated to still be in existence today.
If you fancy adding a bit of history to your camera collection you'll need quite a bit of cash as starting bids for the camera are 1 million Euros with the camera expected to sell for somewhere between €2.500.000. Another Leica 0 -Series camera produced in 1923 was a sensational highlight at the Leitz Photographica auction in 2018 where the camera achieved a record-breaking hammer price of 2.4 million euros and still holds the record for the highest price ever paid for a camera sold by auction. If you want to see if this record will be broken in the latest auction, you can watch events unfold over on YouTube (a link will appear on the auction website shortly before the event begins). The 40th Leitz Photographica Auction will be held at Leitz Park, Wetzlar, Germany at 10am GMT on 11 June 2022. Scientists in the United Arab Emirates have looked at how off-grid rooftop PV could be combined with batteries, fuel cells or reversible solid oxide cells for energy storage. The modeling assumed a typical commercial building in Los Angeles. Researchers from Khalifa University in the United Arab Emirates have conducted a techno-economic analysis of a building energy system based on standalone rooftop PV linked to either lithium-ion batteries, proton-exchange membranes reversible fuel cells (PEM RFC), or reversible solid oxide cells (RSOC). They have found that each of the proposed configurations could result in low capital costs and high efficiency.
The scientists quantified the impact of the PEM RFC and RSOC on overall system degradation. Their modeling considered a typical medium-sized commercial building in Los Angeles, California. Its minimum value of electricity demand was 18.79 kW during the night, with a maximum demand of 178.30 kW in August. The rooftop solar array was assumed to have a capacity of 400 kW, with 310.15 W SPR-E19-310-COM solar modules with 19% efficiency from US manufacturer SunPower. The 250 kW RSOC system – equipped with an air preheater, water boiler, and high-performance heat exchangers – was assumed to have a power density of 0.312 W and an overall system efficiency of 43.99. The fuel cell has a capacity of 251.4 kW, a power density of 0.284 W, with a total system efficiency of 31.18%. The cost of the RFC was estimated at around $667/kW and that of the RSOC at $500/kW. The costs were based on a modeled 250 kW PEM stack cost and 250 kW RSOC stack cost, at 10,000 units per year. The battery is based on a nickel-manganese-cobalt cathode and graphite anode, and has a storage capacity of 400 kWh. It has a round-trip efficiency of 92.5% and a cost of $339/kW. Its lifetime is more than 5,000 cycles. The academics found that the PV system can achieve a levelized cost of energy (LCOE) of $0.0237/kWh. The levelized cost of storage (LCOS) of the RFC, RSOC and the battery was $0.04173/kWh, $0.02818/kWh, and 0.02585/kWh, respectively. “The breakdown of the LCOS shows that capital cost accounts for more than 65% of the total LCOS, making it the most important component that needs more R&D to bring the capital cost down for these energy storage technologies,” they explained. They found that the LCOS increases and the discharge decrease depended on the lifetime of each of the three storage technologies they used. “The LCOS is sensitive to changes in capital costs, round-trip efficiency, lifetime, and discount rate; therefore, changes in these parameters should be carefully considered,” they warned, noting that lithium-ion batteries offer the most economical solution along with maximum efficiency, while also noting that RFCs and RSOCs can improve a standalone building's reliability and resiliency. The scientists presented their findings in “Techno-economic analysis of energy storage systems using reversible fuel cells and rechargeable batteries in green buildings,” which was recently published in Energy. Hours after becoming the first Black African rider to win a Grand Tour stage, Eritrea's Biniam Girmay has been forced to abandon the Giro d'Italia after suffering an eye injury during the podium celebrations. The 22-year-old claimed stage 10 with an impressive sprint, his celebrations were brought to a premature end by a cork. The Intermarche-Wanty-Gobert rider appeared to be struck in the left eye while attempting to uncork a bottle of prosecco on the podium, following which he was taken for a hospital check-up. He later returned to the team hotel and was resting after his medical check, but this morning it was confirmed he will take no further part in the race as a precautionary measure. "Today I didn't start the race because of my eye. I need some rest to give more power to the eye," he said in a statement. "Yesterday when I arrived after the hospital, at a bad moment, I enjoyed a bit with my teammates and staff and everyone. I'm also happy now. I was a bit sad about what happened with the champagne but when I came back in hotel they were super happy. "They were a bit afraid, but when it looked ok, I really enjoyed it, I'm happy."Team doctor Piet Daneels said: "Following an incident on the podium, medical examinations revealed a hemorrhage in the anterior chamber of the left eye of Biniam Girmay. His injury is evolving in the right direction and will be followed up by a medical team in the next days." The 22-year-old had recovered from nearly missing a left turn with just over 6 km to go and fended off Mathieu van der Poel to win the 196-km ride from the coastal town of Pescara to Jesi.
Last week, reports suggested that BMG and Warner Music Group were vying to purchase the catalog of Pink Floyd. Now, the companies are facing another competing bid, for Iver Heath-based One Media iP has made an offer for a portion of the song rights.Berlin-headquartered BMG and the publicly traded Warner Music Group have yet to comment on their reported efforts to acquire the catalog of Pink Floyd – nor has the nearly six-decade-old group addressed the matter. But according to anonymous sources with knowledge of the talks, the winning bidder could spend over $500 million on the body of work.
The sum would rival that which Bruce Springsteen reportedly received from Sony Music Entertainment for his own catalog in December of 2021. Other legacy artists, including but certainly not limited to Sting, Paul Simon, Fleetwood Mac, ZZ Top, and America, have likewise cashed in on their catalogs since the corresponding sales rush initiated in 2020. On the heels of these high-profile deals and a more recent collection of smaller-scale transactions, however, some have expressed the belief that the red-hot catalog space could finally be cooling down. In any event, at least one more blockbuster agreement appears to be in the works, and as highlighted at the outset, One Media is looking to get in on the action, founder and CEO Michael Infante has confirmed. The Sun shed light upon One Media’s offer for the catalog of Pink Floyd – or one percent of this catalog, to be specific – and the company posted an excerpt from the appropriate article to its website. One Media’s £3.5 million ($4.29 million at the present exchange rate) bid for the single-percent interest “should be taken seriously,” per the piece, and “includes access to anti-piracy software which would help protect the music.” Speculation that Ferrari is about to roll out its first major package of upgrades in 2022 have been sparked by intensive security measures surrounding a filming day at Monza. Access to the Autodromo Nazionale Monza was blocked by barriers set up on access roads preventing fans from getting anywhere near to the Italian GP venue. Ferrari released a single image from the session on its social media channels, and a further 'spy' shot has emerged in which the F1-75 is mostly hidden by barriers making it impossible to make out details of any possible changes. The team said that it had hired the venue for a promotional day in which Charles Leclerc would be in the cockpit to produce video material of the car on the track and in the pits and garage. The team needs new footage after dropping livery advertising for the Kaspersky brand in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Filming days in which teams are limited to just 100km of running (17 laps of Monza) are a fairly routine occurrence. Each team is permitted two per season and Ferrari held their first at Barcelona in the run-up to official pre-season testing in February. But the level of security on Friday was unusual, and follows rumours that Ferrari are working to overcome their current estimated 0.2s deficit to Red Bull with a new package of upgrades in time for Spain and Monaco.
Ferrari is said to be working at ways to reduce weight and drag from the car with a new rear wing, modifications to the sidepods and floor and the removal of a transparent film from the bodywork paint. Leclerc appeared to have the upper hand over Max Verstappen in Miami in practice and qualifying, but lost out in Sunday's race. While Ferrari look to have the upper hand in low/medium corners and under acceleration, the Red Bull's superior straight line speed ended up giving the RB18 an unassailable advantage. "We are running a bit more downforce in terms of wing configurations," explained Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto. "Lacking speed on the straights but normally gaining a bit more on the corners. Binotto said that in Miami this had "been the case in the corners five, six and seven, but maybe it has not been the case in the very slow ones after 11, 12 and 13. "Red Bull has been very good in that respect," Binotto acknowledged. "They are very good on the medium tyres, to be as fast as us at least in the very slow speed corners.. "The reason why is something that we need to assess and understand," he added. "I believe it's in the fact that they have got upgrades in the last races that have made their car simply faster." Leclerc said it was clear that Red Bull had made performance gains on softer tyres over race distances. "It's been already two races that in terms of race pace [that] they seem to be a bit stronger and managing those tyres better," he suggested. "In qualifying we always managed to put those tyres in the right window which helps us," he continued. "But on the on the long runs, we struggle a bit more compared to them." As for the view from the other side of the fence, Red Bull boss Christian Horner said that the performance of the respective teams' cars was now so close that the advantage changed from circuit to circuit. "They are very closely matched. I think it's just trying to piece together the best race that you can," he offered. "They had a very high downforce, we were very low downforce, and the set-up worked for us." Red Bull has denied suggestions from their Ferrari counterparts that it is 'burning through' its development budget in order to maintain its current advantage over Ferrari. Astronomers have confirmed the supermassive object at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy is indeed a black hole and captured the first-ever images of it using a worldwide network of telescopes. The images were unveiled on Thursday at multiple press conferences by a team of researchers known as the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration. Known as Sagittarius A, the object at the center of the Milky Way – “invisible, compact and very massive,” as described in a press release published by the European Southern Observatory – was long suspected to be a black hole. However, the images created through linking up a global network of radio telescopes provide direct proof of this hypothesis.
The images show a dark central “shadow” surrounded by a bright ring made up of glowing gasses, the light they produce bent by the black hole’s powerful gravity. The object has four million times the mass of the Sun, and is located 27,000 light years away from our planet. The visuals were recorded by linking together eight radio observatories around the world to form what the researchers described as “a single ‘Earth-sized’ virtual telescope,” which was then used to observe Sagittarius A for hours at a time on multiple nights in 2017. The EHT, which includes more than 300 researchers from 80 institutes, previously imaged the black hole M87 at the center of the distant Messier 87 galaxy, publishing those findings in 2019. Sagittarius A is much closer, as well as over 1,000 times smaller and less massive. However, it was significantly more difficult to photograph given the more rapid orbit time of the gases surrounding the Milky Way’s black hole, with EHT scientist Chi-kwan Chan likening the process to “trying to take a clear picture of a puppy quickly chasing its tail.” Still, the end product looks remarkably similar to its much larger cousin, M87, the EHT’s science council co-chair, Sera Markoff, observed, viewing the similarity as proof that, “General Relativity governs these objects up close, and any differences we see further away must be due to differences in the material that surrounds the black holes.” The researchers hope to use the data on both black holes to test hypotheses regarding the mysterious objects, from their effect on gravity to how gas behaves in their vicinity, a process that remains poorly-understood but which astronomers believe plays a part in how galaxies form and grow over time. Accompanying the photographic findings were six papers published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters covering various aspects of the discovery, from the imaging process to the morphology of black holes. The Republic will host the 2029 SEA Games, the Singapore National Olympic Council (SNOC) and Sport Singapore announced in a joint statement on Thursday (May 12).They added that members of the SEA Games Federation accepted Singapore's interest in hosting the biennial event at a meeting in Hanoi. SNOC president Tan Chuan-Jin, who is in the Vietnamese capital, said:"We are pleased to host the prestigious regional sporting event in Singapore again. The SEA Games holds special memories and experiences for Singapore and our South-east Asian neighbours.The 2029 Games will mark the fifth time Singapore is organising the Games after playing host in 1973, 1983, 1993 and most recently in 2015 , when it yielded its best performance ever - a haul of 84 gold, 73 silver and 102 bronze medals.
The biennial SEA Games, which was first held in 1959 as the SEA Peninsular Games, is the most visible multi-sport event in the region. Back in 2015, more than 10,000 athletes and officials from 11 countries participated in the Games, which featured 402 events across 36 sports. Mr Edwin Tong, Minister for Culture, Community and Youth & Second Minister for Law said that hosting the SEA Games will give Team Singapore athletes an opportunity to compete against some of the best in the region, with strong home ground support. He added: "The spirit of the SEA Games can also bring Singaporeans from all walks of life together, to cheer and rally behind our athletes, and strengthen our national unity. Following the successful hosting of the 2015 SEA Games, we are confident that the 35th SEA Games in 2029 can be another defining moment for Singaporeans and also an opportunity to showcase our hospitality, and tighten bonds with our Southeast Asian neighbours." The current Games - the 31st edition - is currently being held in Hanoi after it was delayed from 2021 due to the pandemic. It was also announced on Thursday that Malaysia has been selected to host the 34th edition in 2027. The 32nd edition will be held in Cambodia and the 33rd Games will be in Thailand. Joe Bonamassa was absolutely electrifying last night at the Royal Albert Hall. I have to say, having seen him more than a dozen times over the years, I have never seen him more relaxed, more comfortable or more at one with his audience. And the packed crowd responded, giving his solos standing ovations and fully engaging with him. As Bonamassa pointed out at one point, this was the 11th time he had played the RAH and he certainly seemed to have developed a real love affair for the old place and in return he seemed very comfortable – familiarity breeding content. The band last night was right on the mark but very much in the background. Josh Smith on rhythm guitar, Reese Wynans on keyboards, Steve Mackey on bass, Greg Morrow on drums and with two backing singers, Jade Macrae & Dani De Andreas – all stellar performers in their own right but completely in lock step behind the man with the guitar and the suit.
He played a long set – over 2 hours without a break – and it included material from all parts of his long career. This was very much a night for Blues/Rock and in many ways it felt like a good old fashioned rock show, there were no horns or strings, only Reese Wynans keyboards and occasional backing vocals and all the focus on Bonamassa. Opening with ‘Evil Mama’ and on to ‘Dust Bowl’ his guitar work was electrifying, long solos but not excessive, perfectly paced and pointing at the way of the night. Highlights were many. A brilliant version of ‘Sloe Gin’, tender and emotional, and a great cut of Gary Moore’s ‘Midnight Blues’. The more modern material was covered with a hot showing of ‘I Didn’t Think She Would Do it’ and ‘Conversation With Alice’. The set closed on ‘Ballad Of John Henry’, all massive riffs and powerful playing, great Reese Wynans Hammond solo and the mushrooms in the ceiling swaying slightly with the sheer power of it. Of course there were encores and he started out with an acoustic version of ‘Woke Up Dreaming’ and showed he was as versatile on acoustic guitar as electric. At one point he was sounding like Al Di Meola and then into Flamenco and then shredding, all on a Gibson acoustic. Finally, we had a stunning ‘Mountain Time’, his voice plaintive, the guitar echoing his calls. Absolutely a ‘hairs on the back of the neck’ moment and the audience totally transfixed. And that was it, the band formed the line and trooped off and suddenly Bonamassa is slapping audience hands, handing out picks and even setlists, completely at one with his audience, definitely something to be remembered. There have been many special nights with Joe Bonamassa but last night was one of the most special and a performance that will be tucked away in my memories for a great while to come. Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market value, dropped below $33,000 during Monday trading, according to data from cryptocurrency news portal CoinDesk, losing half of its value since its peak six months ago. At 10:55 GMT, it was down nearly 5.5%, trading at $32,800, the lowest level since last July. Bitcoin hit an all-time high of $68,990 in November. The dip comes as part of a wider crypto market collapse, which has wiped out almost $300 billion from the value of cryptocurrencies over the last four days. The second-largest coin, Ethereum, is down by 13% since last week, Solana – by more than 16%, and Terra (LUNA) – by more than 25%.
Panic over soaring consumer prices and fears over the impact the crisis in Ukraine will have on the world economy have been named as reasons behind the crypto market crash, which is accompanied by a wider drop in stock markets around the world. Last week, central banks in the US, UK, and other nations raised interest rates in an attempt to curb inflation, which has been rising at the fastest pace in decades, leading to warnings of recession.
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The hardy cactus -- fond of heat and aridity, adapted to rough soils -- might not seem like the picture of a climate change victim. Yet even these prickly survivors may be reaching their limits as the planet grows hotter and drier over the coming decades, according to recently published research. The study estimates that, by mid-century, global warming could put 60% of cactus species at greater risk of extinction. That forecast does not take into account the poaching, habitat destruction and other human-caused threats that already make cactuses one of the world's most endangered groups of organisms.
Most cactus species "are in some way adapted to the climates and the environments that they live in", said Michiel Pillet, a doctoral student in ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona who led the new study, which was published in the journal Nature Plants. "Even a slight change may be too much for them to adapt over shorter time scales."For those who think of cactuses either as stoic masters of all-weather endurance or as cute, low-maintenance houseplants, the enormous variety within the cactus family might come as a jolt. For starters, not all cactuses are desert dwellers. Some live in rainforests or in cool climes at high altitudes. Some store little water in their stalks, relying instead on rainwater and dew. Some occupy highly specific environments: limestone cliffs in Mexico, hills of pink granite in Brazil, a sandy patch of less than 1 square kilometre in Peru. In the Amazon, the moonflower cactus spirals around a tree trunk, high above the ground, so that it is above the waterline when the forest floods and the water can disperse its seeds. In part, it is this narrow taste for particular settings that makes certain cactuses vulnerable not only to climate change but to threats of all kinds. "If you only find it in a very small area, and someone comes and plows it out to grow whatever they want to grow, the whole population disappears," said Barbara Goettsch, another author of the new study and a chair of the Cactus and Succulent Plants Specialist Group at the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The study looks at 408 cactus species, or roughly one-quarter of all known cactus species, and how their geographic range could shift under three different trajectories for global warming in this century. To the researchers' surprise, their results did not vary much between different pathways for climate change, Mr Pillet said: Even if the planet heats up only modestly, many types of cactus could experience declines in the amount of territory where the climate is hospitable to them. Overall, 60% of cactus species are expected to suffer declines of any magnitude, the study found, and 14% could suffer steep declines. Only one species, the Xique-Xique in Brazil, is projected to experience a substantial increase in range. According to the study, the places where the largest numbers of species could become threatened are generally those with the richest diversity of species today, including Florida, central Mexico and large swathes of Brazil. Cactuses that live on trees seem to do especially poorly, perhaps because their lives are so intertwined with those of other plants. The outlook does not seem to be as bleak for the American Southwest, home to the iconic saguaro, Mr Pillet said. But scientists still do not know enough about certain rarer cactuses to predict how they might respond to more punishing climates, he said. That means the study's projections might not paint a complete picture for some parts of the world. Cactuses, by their nature, do not give up their secrets readily. Scientists examining other plants' sensitivity to environmental changes might look, for instance, at the size and thickness of their leaves. "Most cacti don't have leaves, so what would you be measuring?" Mr Pillet said. The study's predictions also do not account for extreme events such as droughts and wildfires, Mr Pillet said. In the Sonoran Desert, rapid infestations of buffelgrass, a drought-resistant plant native to Africa, Asia and the Middle East, have made the landscape highly flammable. Wildfires there have killed thousands of saguaros in recent years. "It's a popular image of cacti," said David Williams, a professor of botany at the University of Wyoming who was not involved in the new research. "'Ah, we don't have to worry about cacti. Look at them, they've got spines, they grow in this terrible environment.'" But cactuses, like most plants, exist in delicate balance with the ecosystems around them, he said. "There are a lot of these tipping points and thresholds that are very fragile and responsive to changes in the environment, land use and climate change." Around a decade ago, when Dr Goettsch was preparing a comprehensive global assessment of the threats to cactuses, there were only a few scientific studies looking at climate change's potential impacts specifically on cactuses, she said. But, she said, other cactus experts kept telling her during their field visits, "You know, we go back now, and a lot of plants are dead. There's no real reason, so we think it might be climate change." The evidence has only piled up further since then, she said. Brazil is a hot spot for cactus diversity. As the country's northeastern drylands experience hotter temperatures, more intense droughts and desertification, that plant wealth is in jeopardy, said Arnobio de Mendonça, a climate and biodiversity researcher at the National Institute for Space Research in Brazil. "Species either adapt or they will go extinct," he said. "As adaptation is a slow process and current climate change is occurring rapidly, it is likely that many species will be lost." |
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