1 point) opened its 2022 MLS regular season with a 0-0 draw against Inter Miami CF (0-0-1 1 point) at DRV PNK Stadium on Saturday night Goalkeeper Gabriel Slonina made four saves to keep his fifth career clean sheet for the Club The Fire outshot Miami 10-5 in the first half including the best chance by either team when midfielder Stanislav Ivanov rattled the far post with a shot in the 31st minute Chicago nearly grabbed one right before halftime when Designated Player Xherdan Shaqiri slipped in a ball behind the backline to Ivanov whose attempt required a kick save by Miami goalkeeper Clément Diop The two teams exchanged chances late in the second half Chicago second-half substitute and debutant Jhon Durán picked up a ball from 25-yards out and struck a shot with his left foot that touched the post and went out of bounds for a Miami goal kick Miami was on the attack when Ariel Lassiter unleashed a left-footed shot to the near post that forced Slonina to make his biggest save of the night when he dove to his left and parried it wide of the net Metrics details Crumpled-based materials are relatively easy to fabricate and show robust mechanical properties for practical applications including meta-biomaterials design aimed for improved tissue regeneration We introduce a crumpled holey thin sheet as a robust bio-metamaterial and measure the mechanical response of a crumpled holey thin Mylar sheet as a function of the hole size and hole area fraction We also study the formation of patterns of crease lines and ridges The area fraction largely dominated the crumpling mechanism the crumpling exponents slightly increases with increasing the hole area fraction and the total perimeter of the holes hole edges were found to limit and guide the propagation of crease lines and ridges the crumpled shape of the meta-biomaterial should be porous to allow for cell migration Starting from a holey thin sheet would allow for obtaining a porous crumpled shape with pore sizes and porosities dependent on the degree of crumpling and the area fraction of the sheet This could provide a single-step approach for fabricating porous meta-biomaterials with (nano-) patterned surfaces introducing holes to a flat sheet before crumpling can considerably change the crumpling mechanism and make it more complex crumpling behavior of holey thin sheets has never been studied before and the effects of hole size and hole area fraction on the physics of crumpling are unknown we investigate the effects of hole size and area fraction on the crumpling behavior of thin elastic sheets in order to design bio-metamaterials Comparison of force, F, with respect to the deformed dimension, d, (a) and normalized deformation (b) for porous and non-porous Mylar sheets. Data are plotted on the logarithmic scale. Specific geometrical parameters for each unit cell are determined in Table 1 Points represent mean value of the compaction level To validate the robustness of the experiments Intra- and inter-observer analysis was also performed (see the supplementary document) To study the role of hole edges on crumpling process were considered and three specimens were tested and scanned for each area fraction The outer boundaries of the hole in the porous sheets were highlighted by spraying a zinc spray (Motip®) Zinc has a different attenuation coefficient as compared to Mylar meaning that the pore edges could be distinguished with image analysis and the network of their positions could be tracked during the crumpling process The sprayed zinc ring was created by offsetting the hole edges by 1 mm The sprayed zinc remained adherent to the sheet as the crumpling process proceeded USA) was used with a tube current and voltage of 180 μA and 90 kV The acquired images had a spatial resolution of 40 μm The total imaging time was about 2 minutes The specimens were crumpled to different degrees (various levels of forces) using the same setup as described above Their crumpling state was then frozen by wrapping a tape sticker around them The specimens were then scanned in the μCT scanner the sticker tape was removed from the sample Specimens were tested at five different loads The orientation of the specimens did not change during scanning and loading μCT imaging of porous sheets with two levels of porosity of 20% (a) and 40% (b) The pores in the sheets were highlighted by a conductive spray (c) Average of the number of folds from a skeletonize image calculated from three middle planes in the μCT image The number of folding lines seem to be constant during the compaction The distribution of the ridges and crease lines in both holey and non-holey crumpled sheets was measured by scanning and image analyzing the unfolded crumpled specimens we scanned five non-holey specimens as well as specimens with 20% hole area fraction using a laser scanner (Ricoh Afico mp c2050) with a resolution of 300 dots per inch (dpi) The ridges and crease lines were identified in the scanned images using image processing algorithms available in ImageJ The region of interest (ROI) was a square (240.7 mm × 240.7 mm) at the center of the unfolded sheets A Gaussian filter with a kernel size of 1.5 was applied to minimize the noise present in the scanned images Images were then converted to an 8-bit format segmented using an Otsu thresholding algorithm We assumed that the length of the pixels in the skeletonized image corresponds to the hinge lines in the crumpled structure We therefore expected to have a power-law dependence between the force and size in our system By plotting the force and the size in a log-log scale we observed the expected behavior for the first two data points in each series corresponding to small compaction forces at the beginning of the process we observed deviations from the expected trend The exponents are obtained by fitting power law to the experimental data The fitted curves are represented by straight lines in log-log scales where the slope of the lines give the exponents the average number of layers increases and we achieve more isotropic structures which consequently satisfy the power-law trend with respect to (a) total area fraction reduction (b) total perimeters of pores in the sheets Fitted lines are only drawn to clarify the general trends and as guides for the eye The log-normal distribution was computed using the pooled data for each group as follows: Histogram of distribution of ridges for (a) non-porous A similar level of areal fraction reduction equal to 20% was chosen for the holey sheets Histograms show the pooled data for each specimen which contain five samples The solid lines overlaid on the histogram show the log-normal distribution fitting (e) The standard deviation calculated from the log-normal fit for different porous and non-porous Mylar sheets we found area fraction of the hole to be the dominant factor influencing the crumpling behavior of holey thin sheets The force-deformation curves were largely similar when scaled with respect to the hole area fraction and the crumpling exponents laid in a relatively small range found to affect the crumpling behavior to some extent the crumpling exponents increased with increasing the area fraction and total hole perimeter increased hole area fraction limited the formation of the hole edge folds hole edges seemed to act as boundaries limiting and guiding the propagation of crease lines and ridges within the sheet “Deployable Structures and Biological Morphology,” 2008 “Review on crumpled graphene: Unique mechanical properties,” “Effect of material properties on the crumpling of a thin sheet,” Soft Matter (2017) “Mechanical behavior of crumpled sheet materials subjected to uniaxial compression” Reviews on Advanced Materials Science Team R: A Language and 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Volume 10 - 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.976703 This article is part of the Research TopicPast Ice Sheet and Ice-Ocean Interactions from Deglaciated Continental MarginsView all 6 articles Observations of rapid ongoing grounding line retreat ice shelf thinning and accelerated ice flow from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) may forebode a possible collapse if global temperatures continue to increase Understanding and reconstructing West Antarctic Ice Sheet dynamics in past warmer-than-present times will inform about its behavior as an analogue for future climate scenarios International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 379 visited the Amundsen Sea sector of Antarctica to obtain geological records suitable for this purpose cores from two drill sites at the Resolution Drift on the continental rise returned sediments whose deposition was possibly influenced by West Antarctic Ice Sheet dynamics from late Miocene to Holocene times To examine the West Antarctic Ice Sheet dynamics shipboard physical properties and sedimentological data are correlated with seismic data and extrapolated across the Resolution Drift via core-log-seismic integration An interval with strongly variable physical properties high diatom abundance and ice-rafted debris occurrence correlating with partially high amplitude seismic reflection characteristics was identified between 4.2 and 3.2 Ma Sedimentation during this interval is interpreted as having occurred during an extended warm period with a dynamic West Antarctic Ice Sheet in the Amundsen Sea sector These records compare to those of other drill sites in the Ross Sea and the Bellingshausen Sea and thus suggest an almost simultaneous occurrence of extended warm periods in all three locations Sites U1532 and U1533 are expected to have recorded significant processes directly related to past WAIS dynamics in the form of sediment deposition after downslope transport via deep-sea channels but also indirectly by bottom current-related transport and deposition This study presents the first deep drill sites on the western Pacific margin revealing sedimentary processes only affected by the WAIS and not by other ice sheets this study aims to fill a major gap in information on solely WAIS influenced processes to achieve a better understanding of WAIS dynamics Our analysis of drill records from both sites reveals WAIS-related characteristics from a Miocene to Pleistocene climate history of both cold and warm periods We construct a seismostratigraphic model by constraining the ages of key seismic units and horizons to enable an extrapolation of the core-log-seismic integration we compare our results to those of other drill records in order to highlight similarities and differences along the Pacific margin of Antarctica We address the processes of sediment transport and deposition especially with respect to diatom abundance and IRD during warmer-than-present Pliocene periods that indicate extended periods of reduced WAIS extent DGT = Dotson-Getz Trough; PITW = Pine Island Trough West; PIT = Pine Island Trough; PITE = Pine Island Trough East; TG = Thwaites Glacier; PIG = Pine Island Glacier; ACT = Abbot-Cosgrove Trough The following is a brief summary of the measurements and data relevant for this study. Detailed information can be found in Gohl et al. (2021a), Wellner et al. (2021a), Wellner et al. (2021b) P-wave velocity was measured using the Whole-Round Multisensor Logger (WRMSL) with the P-wave logging tool and a sampling interval of 2 cm The P-wave logger emits a P-wave pulse of 500 kHz which travels through the core and is received with a precision of 50 ns The P-wave logger was used for Advanced Piston Corer (APC) recovered cores which usually appear in the upper part of the sedimentary column density and compaction of the sediment increased requiring a change of coring system to the Extended Core Barrel (XCB) or Rotary Core Barrel (RCB) Since XCB and RCB drilled cores were not always completely filled they were measured using the Section Half Multisensor Logger (SHMSL) with the P-wave caliper which determines the P-wave velocity vertically to the sectional plane of the core (x-caliper) The changes from WRMSL to SHMSL measurements occur at 260 mbsf at Site U1532 and 205 mbsf at Site U1533 Gamma Ray Attenuation Bulk Density was measured with the Whole-Round Multisensor Logger with a sampling interval of ∼1 cm. The gamma-ray attenuation densitometer analyzes the bulk density by transmitting a gamma-ray beam through the core, which is attenuated by the material due to Compton scattering. The density can then be derived by using an average attenuation coefficient of the sediment (Gerland and Villinger 1995) XCB and also RCB recovered core sections of Sites U1532 and U1533 Color Reflectance a* was measured with the SHMSL and provided the colors redness (>0) and greenness (<0). In this study, the reported colors in reflectance a* were used to support the definition of intervals considered to represent warmer periods, as greenness in sediments is an indicator of higher biogenic content. Such intervals may be evidence of higher productivity during open ocean conditions (Wellner et al., 2021a) FIGURE 4. Physical properties measured at cores of IODP Expedition 379 Site U1532 (Gohl et al., 2021a; Wellner et al., 2021a) Colored bars divide the data into seismic units AS7 to AS10 ASu7 to ASu9 describe the reflections separating the seismic units The complete edited data sets are visible in gray overlain by a smoothed curve calculated by locally weighted regression FIGURE 5. Physical properties measured at cores of IODP Expedition 379 of Site U1533 (Gohl et al., 2021a; Wellner et al., 2021b) Colored bars divide into seismic units AS7 to AS10 ASu7 to ASu9 describe the horizons separating the seismic units linear sedimentation rates were calculated for Site U1532 and Site U1533 Diatom classification and abundance estimates were carried out via several methods. Smear slides were analyzed, and samples were sieved at 10–20 µm. In particular, sections with a low bulk density and greenish units were sampled (Wellner et al., 2021a; Wellner et al., 2021b) Pebble (IRD) quantity was derived by counting pebbles appearing on the surface of the core section Coarser grains between 4 mm and 6 cm long axis were counted and summed for intervals of 10 cm If the number of pebbles ranged between 0 and 9 although if the number of pebbles was higher or equal to 10 the count was listed as 10 This seismic profile is one of seven lines and was made available via the Antarctic Seismic Data Library System (SDLS) of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research calculated at 10 m intervals for all data sets except the P-wave velocity x-caliper data (20 m) These intervals were chosen to account for the vertical resolution of the seismic data (29–37 m) and for larger changes in physical property values FIGURE 6. Seismic profile AWI-20100130 (Gohl and Uenzelmann-Neben 2021a) near Expedition 379 Site U1532 The seismostratigraphic model divided in seismic units AS7 to AS10 with the associated unit boundary horizons reflections ASu7 to ASu9 (colored solid lines) is shown Seismic unit AS8 is subdivided into subunits AS8a to AS8d separated by marker horizons (dashed blue line) The synthetic seismogram is plotted at the location of Site U1532 FIGURE 7. Comparison of the shipboard P-wave velocity data measured at cores of Site U1532 (grey crosses) and interval velocity derived from velocity analysis at CDP 10300 of seismic profile AWI-20100130 (red stars) (Uenzelmann-Neben and Gohl 2014; Gohl et al., 2021a; Wellner et al., 2021a) FIGURE 8. Seismic profile TH86003B (Yamaguchi et al., 1988) near Expedition 379 Site U1533 including the seismostratigraphic model divided into seismic units AS7 to AS10 that are separated by unit boundary horizons reflections ASu7 to ASu9 (solid lines) The regional stratigraphic model of the Amundsen Sea follows the nomenclature of Lindeque et al. (2016), which has been revised by Lamb et al. [personal communication]. Seismic units are named as AS-xx and the seismic horizons separating them (often unconformities) called ASu-xx. Furthermore, we compared the newly created seismostratigraphic model in this paper to the model by Uenzelmann-Neben and Gohl (2014) with its seismic units named ASR-I to ASR-IV we describe the main seismic characteristics in the proximity of both sites in conjunction with physical property variations The correlation between the seismic data and the sedimentological information was carried out via the calculated synthetic seismogram ages can be assigned and the origin of reflections can be inferred Drilling at Site U1532 retrieved sediments from seismic units AS7 to AS10 (Figure 6, CMP 10600–9700), which are described in the following (Supplementary Table S1) Summary of seismic characteristics and age assignments at the location of Site U1532 impedance and synthetic seismogram next to the measured seismic data at the location of Site U1532 Seismic unit AS8 at Site U1532 represents the thickest seismic unit sampled unit AS8 is divided into subunits AS8a to AS8d Site U1533 was drilled at profile TH86003B, recovering sediments divided into seismic units AS7 to AS10 between CMP 2300 and 1600 (Figure 8 and Supplementary Table S2) impedance and synthetic seismogram next to the measured seismic data at the location of Site U1533 Summary of seismic characteristics and age assignments at the location of Site U1533 These changes correlate with a low amplitude reflection that strengthens to the east and is assigned as reflection ASu8 identified as reflection ASu9 and representing the Pliocene–Pleistocene boundary The observed changes are expressed by one strong amplitude reflection for the whole of unit AS10 due to the low resolution of the seismic data sedimentological information and seismic data support the following reconstruction of the history of the WAIS from late Miocene to Pleistocene times FIGURE 13. Conceptual model for the inferred cold (A) and warm period (B) in the Amundsen Sea sector with the major processes during those times. The IBSCO bathymetric map was made available by Arndt et al. (2013); PIT = Pine Island Trough and a primarily turbiditic deposition pattern Future investigation of the possibility that these WAIS minima may have accompanied one or more total WAIS collapses will require complementary drill core records from sediments of the continental shelf to track and compare depositional characteristics and their changes from the shelf to the rise Rahaman (National Center for Polar and Ocean Res. created the images and analyzed and interpreted the data interpretation of the data and the discussion of the results All authors reviewed and improved the draft manuscript and approve the submitted version This study was supplied by institutional funds of the Alfred Wegener Institute and by grant no GO 724/19-1 from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) in the framework of the Priority Program 527 IODP Expedition 379 was funded by the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest The reviewer LP declared a past co-authorship with the author KG to the handling editor All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher The Supplementary Material for this article can be found online at: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2022.976703/full#supplementary-material Supplementary Figure S1 | Seismic profile AWI-20100130 (Gohl and Uenzelmann-Neben, 2021a) uninterpreted with drill location Site U1532 and the synthetic seismogram Supplementary Figure S2 | Seismic profile TH86003B (Yamaguchi et al., 1988) uninterpreted with drill location Site U1533 and the synthetic seismogram U1533 and the synthetic seismogram Supplementary Figure S3 | 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Tune in on My33, UniMás, #InterMiamiCF App! pic.twitter.com/z4Z7AVRO7x Early chances by Gregore and Duke put pressure on the visitors while Callender on the other end helped keep New York scoreless including with a crucial save in the 24th minute one-on-one with Patryk Klimala 24' | BIG TIME. 🧤🧤 Callender comes up with a great save once again.#MIAvRBNY | 0-0 pic.twitter.com/Egiqa974QL Inter Miami opened the scoring; Lassiter received a pass from Duke on the left wing beat two defenders and curled a right-footed effort inside the far post for a 1-0 lead The goal was Lassiter’s first in MLS this season and third across all competitions while the assist was Duke’s first for Inter Miami The goal sent the hosts into halftime with a lead Bryce Duke ➡️ Ari Lassiter for his first #InterMiamiCF MLS goal!#MIAvRBNY | 1-0 pic.twitter.com/4uKzK8pR8j The second half saw Inter Miami continue to control possession at an increasing rate while the team continued to defend stoutly Callender made another standout save in the 70th minute while Sailor and Lowe denied New York attackers Inter Miami scored the goal that secured the win; Gregore hit a ball down the right wing for Gonzalo Higuaín turned and found Taylor’s run behind the defense who then hit a splitting pass to Ulloa in front of goal waited for defenders to close on him and passed the ball back to Taylor while the assist was Ulloa’s first of the season Callender was once again voted Heineken Man of the Match marking his second consecutive match receiving the honor as well as his second consecutive clean sheet And another one for Callender 👏🏽 #HeinekenMOTM pic.twitter.com/qCEBdY8pC2 “I’m really pleased," said head coach Phil Neville "There’s a great spirit and togetherness there’s a great belief that we are headed in the right direction We are now beginning to make DRV PNK Stadium a tough place to go." 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Too many automated requests from this network Developing Brains Fold Like Crumpled Paper to Get Their Convolutions A single mathematical function explains how both a sheet of paper and a developing brain folds By Sabrina Imbler The growing mammalian brain folds just like any sheet of office paper governed by a single mathematical function A brain and a crisp sheet of office paper may seem to have little in common But if someone crumples the paper into a ball they’re holding the solution to one of the most longstanding mysteries of brain development according to a study published July 2 in Science the growing mammalian brain folds just like any sheet of office paper governed by a single mathematical function.  The “brilliant study” represents a significant advance in scientists’ understanding of how the brain develops says neurologist Arnold Kriegstein of the University of California The research also casts light on the mechanisms behind certain structural disorders of the brain and could inform future efforts to ease those ailments Cryptic corticesThe human brain cortex—its outer layer—is an intricately furrowed landscape with ridges called gyri and valleys called sulci There is a clear advantage to such cortical folding folded cortex means information transfer from one point in the brain to another covers less distance and can happen far more rapidly If you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our award-winning journalism by subscribing By purchasing a subscription you are helping to ensure the future of impactful stories about the discoveries and ideas shaping our world today Researchers knew that gyri and sulci arise in humans during the third trimester of gestation but could never pinpoint the forces behind their formation For a long time two explanations held sway but both were riddled with exceptions according to neuroscientist and co-author Suzana Herculano-Houzel of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro are much more finely grooved than similarly sized human brains The second explanation posited that brains fold both as a result of an increasing number of neurons and also as a way to allow this neural growth. The 19th-century neuroanatomist Franz Gall hypothesized that brains folded to allow a much larger cortical surface to fit inside the space of the skull The alternative would be a cortex that did not fold but expanded like a balloon an inefficient use of the cramped quarters of the head Human cortices have three times the number of neurons than elephant cortices yet human brains are half the mass and far less folded Baboon and pig cortices display equivalent amounts of folding yet baboons have 10 times as many neurons as pigs do These outliers seemed to suggest that different species possess different mechanisms to control cortical folding—that is each species has its own way of growing a brain The Science study both disproves those hypotheses and reconciles anomalies like the manatee with a simple physical law Grooved and smooth brains alike follow this universal law of nature regardless of a cortex’s number or arrangement of neurons That’s the way the cortex crumplesThe moment of epiphany arrived with the insight of author and physicist Bruno Mota of the Federal University To model brain folding Herculano-Houzel had graphed a power function derived from the product of cortical surface area and the square root of cortical thickness saw the graph and exclaimed “That’s a sheet of paper!” she recalls Mota had recognized that the same model that predicted the degree of brain convolution also explained the crumpling of paper balls To test this theory the researchers simply measured crumpled paper balls with a ruler on Herculano-Houzel’s dining room table To see their results you can run essentially the same experiment as the experimenters conducted using four sheets of paper The paper should expand slightly as it releases some energy but eventually it will settle in a crumpled form “What you have is a system to which you applied forces,” Herculano-Houzel says “You changed it radically but then it stabilized in a new conformation.” This last conformation is the ball’s new state of least-effective free energy—the state in which it is most stable Mota suggests imagining dropping a ball in a bowl The ball will settle at the bottom of the bowl the position of least effective free energy where the ball can remain with least effort a folded brain will not stray from this new stable state you can chop it into pieces and it remains folded,” Herculano-Houzel says Take the remaining three sheets of paper and crumple them as one sheet This ball will be much larger and harder to fold simply as a consequence of the material’s added heft thicker cortices fold less and end up with less cortical material hiding below the surface The crumpled paper model also reveals that a larger surface area led to more folding The results indicate that as the developing brain grows the thickness and surface area of tissue at the time forces are applied to it affect how it folds in response Inside and outsideAlthough the forces acting on the paper come from a human hand the forces applied to an actual cortex arise from several places Atmospheric pressure applies force outside in as cerebrospinal fluid pushes inside out There are also pressures exerted by the cells forming the brain as they push outward to grow and expand along with the thickness and surface area causes the brain to buckle into its characteristic folds The crumpled paper research offers insight into certain developmental brain disorders that result in malformation lissencephaly results in a smooth brain without any grooves or folds Researchers understood that this disorder occurs after a disruption in the migration of newborn neurons from their origination point to their final destination in the brain Although nobody could explain why these brains failed to fold researchers had noted lissencephalic cortices were four to five times thicker than normal ones The Science study finally explains the phenomenon of gyrification showing a thick cortex is much harder to convolute “If we can understand how something that basic works or fails to work there are huge implications now for people who study brain development itself,” Herculano-Houzel says She points to intermediate progenitor cells the stem cells involved in brain development which were long thought to induce brain folding by increasing the number of neurons Now that the crumpled-paper study shows the number of neurons is probably irrelevant in the folding process more research is needed to understand the role intermediate progenitor cells play in brain development Subscribe to Scientific American to learn and share the most exciting discoveries innovations and ideas shaping our world today Scientific American is part of Springer Nature which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www.springernature.com/us) Scientific American maintains a strict policy of editorial independence in reporting developments in science to our readers they’re holding the solution to one of the most longstanding mysteries of brain development governed by a single mathematical function.","image_caption":"The growing mammalian brain folds just like any sheet of office paper PROVIDENCE — He was an inadvertent omission from the pregame roster sheet but everyone leaving Rhode Island College on Saturday night knew Cesar Fajardo’s name The Davies senior midfielder scored the goal that erased a year’s worth of frustration for the Patriots a deflected left-footed shot in the 47th minute that helped spark his team to a 4-1 win over Woonsocket in the R.I It was a 180-degree turn in emotions from the last time Davies walked off this particular pitch That came 361 nights ago after a 2-1 loss to Providence Country Day a defeat that denied the Patriots their first championship since 1995 This time it was Davies doing the celebrating after unassisted goals from Fajardo Josue Mota and Rafael Jesus in the second half “They knew what they needed to do and they did it,” Davies coach Victor Oliveira said Davies (13-2-2) sealed its long-awaited title when Fajardo popped up with possession on the edge of the Woonsocket box early in the second half His low drive took a deflection and spun just out of the reach of Villa Novans goalkeeper Billy Thipphavong giving the top-seeded Patriots the lead for good Mota’s insurance goal in the 71st minute and a terrific finish from Jesus in the 77th gave the Patriots the breathing room they needed to avoid becoming Woonsocket’s latest upset victim The seventh-seeded Villa Novans (11-5-2) stunned No 3 Burrillville on their way to their first boys soccer final since joining the RIIL in 1970 “In the second half I reminded them how it felt last year,” Oliveira said Davies needed just nine minutes to take the lead as Jesus was hacked down in the Woonsocket penalty area after a perfect ball down the right wing by Jorge Castro Marlon Conte made no mistake with the ensuing penalty kick beating Thipphavong inside the left post to make it 1-0 Woonsocket’s PaOusman Jobe — assigned to mark Jesus from sideline to sideline in a terrific 1-on-1 battle — had his revenge in the 23rd minute putting in motion the play that would lead to the equalizer by sending a long ball into the Davies box Garrett Lambert’s rocket from the top of the area was parried off the crossbar by Patriots keeper Jonathan Soares but Andi Hoxha was on the scene to push in the short rebound and draw the Villa Novans level at 1-1 That was the final goal Davies conceded this season allowing the Patriots to avoid the fate suffered by last year's team and in 2004 I’m going to miss them and I’m very proud of them.” WOONSOCKET (1): Andi Hoxha; assist – Garrett Lambert Lithium miner Lepidico has signed a binding term sheet with Grupo Mota to conduct drilling at Alvarrões lepidolite mine near Guarda city in north-east Portugal Lithium miner Lepidico has signed a binding term sheet with Grupo Mota to conduct drilling at Alvarrões lepidolite mine near Guarda city in north-east Portugal Activities will help confirm JORC Code compliant mineral resources as potential feed for future L-Max processing facilities Lepidico will spend a minimum of €250,000 on exploration and drilling over an 18-month exclusive period Alvarrões represents a drill ready target with open-pit mining of lepidolite having occurred over a strike length of more than 1km The exploration campaign will also include evaluation of material from waste dumps Lepidico managing director Joe Walsh said: "The company is very much looking forward to working with Grupo Mota one of Europe’s most highly respected and long-established ceramic industry suppliers "With successful exploration at Alvarrões we hope to identify significant additional feed material for our future L-Max facilities and Grupo Mota’s ceramics business." Don’t let policy changes catch you off guard Stay proactive with real-time data and expert analysis Grupo Mota is the owner and operator of the Alvarrões lepidolite mine Grupo Mota CEO Carlos Mota said: “We believe this is the first step to a long-term partnership with Lepidico “We are confident that the exploration and drilling activities in Alvarrões will result in the identification of lithium minerals to feed the future L-Max facilities.” Grupo Mota produces nearly 20,000t per annum of lithium minerals mainly lepidolite from this property The Alvarrões lithium mine is situated in the Seixo Amarelo-Gonçalo (SAG) rare element pegmatite district of the Central Iberian Zone in north-east Portugal Lepidico claims that the potentiality of the location for large-scale mining to produce lithium has not been evaluated to date Around 95% of the known SAG pegmatite veins are sub-horizontal sills with a sub-horizontal plunge muscovite and varying amounts of minerals of Li the Alvarrões mining concession includes most of the known outcropping lithium pegmatites in the area Image: Alvarrões lepidolite mine in Guarda area Give your business an edge with our leading industry insights View all newsletters from across the GlobalData Media network June 27 (IANS) The NIA has mentioned in its charge sheet that gangster Lawrence Bishnoi had proposed an idea of forming alliances with other gangs a 'Mahagathbandhan' to confront rivals and expand terror network The Haryana anti-corruption bureau (ACB) has ‘arraigned as accused’ eight Haryana Civil Services (HCS) officers for irregularities and malpractices in the recruitment process of the 2001 HCS and Allied Services (Executive Branch) Examination during the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) regime (Representative Photo) According to the ACB including former six Haryana Public Service Commission (HPSC) functionaries four allied services officers and nine paper checkers have been arraigned in a charge sheet presented in the court of Hisar sessions judge “The ACB headed by director general Shatrujeet Kapur is probing allegations of selections having been made on political and extraneous considerations” In the charge sheet filed by the ACB and presented in the court of Hisar sessions judge Dinesh Kumar Mittal the agency has named eight serving HCS officers – Veena Hooda Vatsal Vashisht and Jag Niwas – as accused in the recruitment process Others who have been named include a retired HCS officer– Ranjit Kaur and four allied services officers – Ashok Kumar The ACB didn’t need to take prosecution sanction for the eight HCS officers as they were private individuals when they appeared for the controversial exam said officials familiar with the development who was the HPSC secretary when the alleged irregularities took place nine paper checkers or examiners – Prof Joseph Cherian Kappan SK Verma and Professor Prem Sagar Chaturvedi Taking note of the charge sheet produced by the ACB the Hisar sessions judge has issued a notice to all the accused persons for August 10 and has directed Panchkula Sharif Singh to provide hard copies of the challan of all the accused within 20 days According to officials familiar with the matter President Droupadi Murumu had on June 7 accorded sanction to prosecute the former HPSC functionaries in a court of law for offences punishable under the Prevention of Corruption Act for allegedly misusing their official position in the conduct of examinations conducted by the HPSC during then chief minister Om Prakash Chautala-led INLD rule in Haryana sent a request to issue a sanction for prosecution against the former chairperson and members for misuse of their official position in the conduct of 2001 and 2004 HSC (executive branch) and allied services exams and selections of assistant professors and lecturers in Chaudhary Devi Lal Memorial Engineering College Panniwala Mota in Sirsa based on investigations done by the State Vigilance Bureau (now called anti-corruption bureau) in a first information report (FIR) registered on October 18 The FIR number 20 was registered under sections 420 120 B of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and sections 7 and 13 of the Prevention of Corruption Act against the former chairperson and members for alleged misuse of their official position in making appointments during 2001 to 2004 period on various posts The President’s sanction to prosecute communicated by the Union personnel ministry to the Haryana government on June 7 said the perusal of Vigilance Bureau records revealed that these former HPSC functionaries “misused their official position and showed undue favour for illegal gratification and committed irregularities resulting in the selection of ineligible candidates at the cost of eligible candidates thereby committing offences punishable under Sections 420 120-B IPC and sections 7 and 13 of PC Act” after carefully examining the material before her investigation and forensic reports and other relevant documents a case for an alleged offence under sections 7 (offence related to public servant being bribed and 13 (2) (criminal misconduct by a public servant) of the Prevention of Corruption Act and various sections of the IPC is made out against the above-named persons Therefore the President being the competent authority to remove these public servants from office under Article 317 of the Constitution considers that prima facie a case for alleged offences under section 7 13(1)(a) and (d) read with 13(2)) of Prevention of Corruption Act 1988 is made out against the these former HPSC functionaries and the said functionaries should be prosecuted in the court of law accords sanction for prosecution under Section 19(1) of the Prevention of Corruption Act against these former HPSC functionaries for their prosecution in the court of law,” the sanction order reads.