A huge ball of brightly burning gas drifting through a neighboring galaxy may be
the heaviest star ever discovered -- hundreds of times more massive than the
sun, scientists said Wednesday after working out its weight for the first
time.

Those behind the find say the star, called R136a1, may once have
weighed as much as 320 solar masses. Astrophysicist Paul Crowther said the obese
star -- twice as heavy as any previously discovered -- has already slimmed down
considerably over its lifetime.

In fact, it's burning itself off with
such intensity that it shines at nearly 10 million times the luminosity of the
sun.

"Unlike humans, these stars are born heavy and lose weight as they
age," said Crowther, an astrophysicist at the University of Sheffield in
northern England. "R136a1 is already middle-aged and has undergone an intense
weight loss program."

Crowther said the giant was identified at the
center of a star cluster in the Tarantula Nebula, a sprawling cloud of gas and
dust in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy about 165,000 light-years away from
our own Milky Way.

The star was the most massive of several giants
identified by Crowther and his team in an article in the Monthly Notices of the
Royal Astronomical Society.

While other stars can be larger, notably the
swollen crimson-colored ones known as red giants, they weigh far
less.

Still, the mass of R136a1 and its ilk means they're tens of times
bigger than the Earth's sun and they're brighter and hotter, too.

Surface
temperatures can surpass 40,000 degrees Celsius (72,000 degrees Fahrenheit),
seven times hotter than the sun. They're also several million times brighter,
because the greedy giants tear through their energy reserves far faster than
their smaller counterparts.

That also means that massive stars live fast
and die young, quickly shedding huge amounts of material and burning themselves
out in what are thought to be spectacular explosions.

"The biggest live
only 3 million years," Crowther said. "In astronomy that's a very short
time."

Small lifespans are one of several reasons why these obese stars
are so hard to find. Another is that they're extremely rare, forming only in the
densest star clusters.

Astronomers also have a limited range in which to
look for them. In clusters that are too far away, it isn't always possible to
tell if a telescope has picked up on one heavyweight star or two smaller ones in
close proximity.

In this case, Crowther's team re-examined previously
known stars to see if they could find an accurate measurement of their weight.
The team reviewed archival data from the Hubble Space Telescope and gathered new
readings from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope at
Paranal in Chile.

Scientists who weren't involved in the find said the
results were impressive, although they cautioned it was still possible, although
unlikely, that scientists had confused two very close stars for a bigger, single
one.

"What they're characterizing as a single massive star could in fact
be a binary system too close to be resolved," said Mark Krumholz, an astronomer
at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Both he and Phillip Massey,
an astronomer with the Lowell Observatory in Arizona, also cautioned that the
star's weight had been inferred using scientific models and that those were
subject to change.

But both scientists said the authors had made a strong
case, arguing that the solar material being thrown off from feuding stars in a
binary system would produce much more powerful X-rays than have been
detected.

Crowther acknowledged that R136a1 could have a partner, but he
said it was likely to be a much smaller star, meaning that the star's its birth
weight was still considerable -- perhaps 300 solar masses instead of 320.
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Finding new flu drugs is essential as flu viruses mutate and are adept at
evading the limited array of antiviral drugs.

In a paper published in
Nature Biotechnology, scientists from Hong Kong and Canada said they had found a
chemical "nucleozin", which fought off both seasonal flu viruses and the H5N1 in
mice as well as in cell culture.

"We have now brand-new weapons to combat
influenza virus resistant to ... (antiviral drugs like) oseltamivir and
zanamivir," said microbiologist Richard Yao at the University of Hong Kong, who
led the study.

Nearly all of the seasonal H1N1 viruses circulating in the
United States in the 2008-2009 flu season were resistant to Roche AG (ROG.VX)
and Gilead Sciences Inc's (GILD.O) Tamiflu, known generically as oseltamivir,
according to the paper.

Adamantanes, an older class of drugs, was also
powerless against seasonal H3N2 flu viruses in the United States during that
same period.

Zanamivir is the generic name for Relenza, GlaxoSmithKline
(GSK.L) and Biota Inc's (BTA.AX) flu drug

Nucleozin targetted a protein
in flu viruses, called nucleoprotein, that was responsible for virus
replication, Yao said in reply to questions from Reuters.

Yao said they
selected nucleozin from a chemical library with more than 50,000 compounds, the
same library which experts here used to study the SARS virus.

"Nucleozin
is highly potent in cell culture and also in mice infected with the highly
pathogenic influenza virus H5N1 ... (it can) stop the virus from replicating,"
Yao said.

The compound was effective against H1N1, H3N2, and H5N1 viruses
and researchers can now target nucleoprotein to fight flu, Yao
said.

"Scientists could now use nucleoprotein as a target to develop
antiviral therapeutics for the treament of influenza infection," he
said.

A cousin of the new H1N1 swine flu virus, the seasonal H1N1, has
been circulating widely for a long time. SARS surfaced in southern China in
2003, killing about 800 people world-wide.

The H5N1, although mainly a
disease in birds, has a mortality rate of 60 percent on the rare occasions when
it infects people. It was first discovered in people in 1997.
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Want the other meal, want nutrition even more
 Have dinner and want nutrition to match the following several points of rational attention outside:

1 drink little, try not, drink sweet beverage, suck beverage of heat instead of green tea, oolong tea, chrysanthemum scented tea,etc..

2 must take staple food first, don't wait for dish pass the five flavours take appetite of staple food. Have staple food can protect intestines and stomach, can also reduce because protein and a large number of fat decompose, produce harmful danger of wastes first

3 tries hard to avoid frying food and fatty cooked food. Same raw materials, there is no harm in, choose, need cooking way to put into oil, cold and dressed with sauce, steamed, sauced bittern, boil in vain, stew in clear soup, soup dish,etc..

4 eats more vegetables and soyfood, eat little food of meat. Dining table have some getting green vegetables always, can some mushroom, Auricularia, bamboo shoots accompany even in the meat dish. Can stretch the chopsticks to the food willfully.

Ask oneself 5 every days: Have drunk a cup of yoghurt? Have had 0.5 kilograms of vegetables? Have had 0.15 kilograms of staple food? Have had a kind of food grains other than rice and wheat? Have had beans or bean curd? Have had an egg? Are the meat and oil eaten too much?

6 appetite don't be too great, seven or eight fen is full. Dinner drink time to be relatively long, slightly careless will diet excessive, want attention park the mouth before the stomach is energetic extremely.

7 tries to supplement light food such as some fresh vegetables, porridge of food grains other than rice and wheat and mushroom, bean curd at home, let the tired out intestines and stomach have a rest, supplementary enough vitamins and meal fiber.

8 if because working reason too late to cook and have a meal, propose, choose yoghurt or milk take the place of the meal with fruit.
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Nutrition analysis of the noodles served with fried bean sauce

  Often substitute the ordinary meal dinner with the noodles served with fried bean sauce, how on earth is it on nutrition? This will be talked about from raw materials of the noodles served with fried bean sauce.

   The composition of the noodles served with fried bean sauce is three parts: Noodles, fried bean sauce with the dish yard '  Batching such as various vegetables added into bowl at the end)  . Seriously, in the noodles served with fried bean sauce, the noodles is the staple food - -" meal " ,And fried bean sauce and dish yard belong to "  The dish " .

A noodles

    From the viewpoint of nutrition, as to " meal " Requirement,lasting coarse food grain, more of fibers, thiamine the high a bit, taste "  Very hungry " One o'clock. According to digesting the pace, the noodles is slightly stronger than the rice and steamed bun, digest a little more slowly, especially slightly boil "  The muscle is said " Noodles of the sense. Usually look from nutrition, the good noodles needs higher protein content, under the same quantity, can get more proteins than the rice.

    If can choose to add the miscellaneous beans noodles, noodles of buckwheat, noodles of egg with egg with buckwheat of the beans, the nutritive value is a little higher, the sense of allaying hunger is a little stronger too.

    But as the staple food, the noodles has unfavorable respects. First of all, it needs making by boiling, a large amount of soluble nutrient will be dissolved with soup, for instance potassium, vitamin B1, B2, Nick sour, folic acid,etc.. This is undoubtedly a thing very sorry. In order to let the hot noodles be cooled as soon as possible, people will often put the noodles to the cold water to wash twice in summer, the losses of heavier nutrient. You know, it is more to sweat in summer, these vitamins are exactly the assortment apt to be scarce of human body.

    This regret was originally very easy to remedy - -So long as drinking a bowl of noodle soup can be solved, bring the nutrient dissolved out into belly together. But drinking the noodle soup now will consider repeatedly - -Because much salt is put in the present noodles, the flavour of noodle soup is too salty, if wanted to control the salt, the soup opposite keeps someone at a respectful distance, the ones that sought his law are good separately.

2 fried bean sauce

    And then come to see the sauce that the noodles served with fried bean sauce use. Traditional noodles served with fried bean sauce of Beijing usually use salted and fermented soya paste to be the main material clan, use fat thin meat cubelets as the batching. Salted and fermented soya paste is that soybeans and flour are mixed, made, among them the protein content is relatively high, B vitamin content is quite abundant. Through fermenting, rich in vitamin B12 in salted and fermented soya paste, vitamin in the pork is B1 relatively high, vitamin that can be remedied while boiling the noodles to a certain extent is lost. Its main shortcoming, is that salty degree is often too high.

    The main problem is, actually the fat content was high for the pork, used the fat thin meat cubelets, bomb make, can usually put oil, fried bean sauce into deep and vast shining oiling, make people a little psychological and uncomfortable. But change the current situation what difficult matter is this, change tight pork filling or beef filling into, and then have the fried bean sauce with the non-stick pan, can reduce the fat content of the fried bean sauce greatly, have no great influence on taste.

    The content of the fried bean sauce can be fully abundant too in fact. If can use little salted and fermented soya paste, cooperated with some more sweet sauce and pure soybean and made big sauce, taste will be more delicious, and not so salty. If can add a little sand tea sauce, will increase seafood's flavor; If add some broad bean paste, can increase the perfume of some fermented hot peppers. Can also add green bean, mushroom, mushroom, bamboo shoot man, eggplant piece, dried bean curd man,etc. when the fried bean sauce, further enrich mouthfeel and nutrition of the fried bean sauce.

3 dish yards

    The dish yard is key point of guaranteeing the nutrition quality of the noodles served with fried bean sauce. The traditional noodles served with fried bean sauce need to mix several kinds vegetables yard, the material standing for election includes the green bean, cucumber silk, turnip silk, carrot silk, lettuce silk, blanching the bean sprouts, blanching the chicken feather dish, blanching cowpeas, blanching Chinese cabbage silk, sea Chinese cabbage silk, mushroom silk, shredded meat, shredded chicken, bean curd silk, coriander, chopped scallion,etc., various in style, numerous.

    So long as add abundant dish yard and match with noodles, mean having many fresh vegetables, realize the diversification of the food easily, vitamin C and potassium can all be fully supplied. It is especially important to add the bean curd silk, because it can supplement the more scarce calcium element in the sauce and noodles.

    But the problem is, while eating the noodles served with fried bean sauce, the total amount of yard of dish is usually smaller, can't far reach the requirement for a meal and half a jin of vegetables; In it and ganish food,green leaves vegetables the getting partial and less too or as,therefore carrotene the insufficient in supply. This problem can be solved by two kinds of methods: First, cook some more dish yard, and then mix some vegetables to eat with the sauce after eating up the noodles; Second, pay special attention to eating more green leaves vegetables in the next meal.

    Perhaps, any best noodles served with fried bean sauce, to give people infinite intention when being succinct. What one is used? What sauce is fried? What dish yard is used? Can go for innovation freely. It only need remember four major principles to think of nutritive equilibrium: Reduce salty degree, reduce fat, multi-purpose dish yard, multi-purpose coarse food grain miscellaneous beans noodles.

    Want to know the specially delicious flavor fried bean sauce that I did? Please see chaining! That is that welcome private savings is made secretly  

Love it in four seasons
It can be very simple to be happy. A masterpiece, a cup of coffee. Read in detail slowly, sample slowly.

      In spring, one's leisurely stroll, look at the beautiful scenery in spring, let people carry away. When being mentally deranged, one roams in the unoccupied drizzle of front yard, one is carefree in the streets and lanes, perhaps careless a wild flower that found, will all let me gambol. According to the fast mirror start, take the picture of oozing the heart. In it is bright-coloured in spring, really missing oneself becomes and floats it in the cloud in the sky, with the wind, there is no thought, have no purpose; With the rain, descend slowly and lightly on the earth, remit the sea.

      In spring of another year, we four people are competent, take the train to Hangzhou. Breathe out, breathe out, this the first time make train in life, outside expect, crowdedness so at train, without seat, the plan that originally wanted the pastime on the car to play card can only become invalid. Happpy the scenery on the way has not let me feel dull. When getting to Hangzhou, go straight in the West Lake first naturally. West Lake dim to look like like rain fog like wind, oneself can not extricate oneself, walk, feel round West Lake tired a whole day, see this water, this tree, see that mountain, that tower ~~~Really too beautiful to be absorbed all at once. It is silly that it is spent that you smile at me, see the thing beautiful being unwilling to let go; It is silly that it is spent that I smile at you too, have lost oneself once seeing me.

      Will it be spring another year, we six people trip, buy ticket early fortunately, we sound to play card laughing at on the way, it is happy to infect other people and follow us frequently. The Hangzhou too competent to come to play completely, but accompany him to participate in the sports meeting that the company organize. Say that comes with, in fact I come to join in the fun. Event of sports meeting have only one, long-distance race, go to the fourth bridge from first bridge of dyke Su. Hey hey, have not moved for a long time, to a person of so much long meat on one's body, win the race, have two perhaps, positive number number one, if you do not come out bottom, in my view, the latter's probability is 100%.

      Unconsciously, it has already been a feeling in summer - -It is sultry. I have made judgement here, note the appearance that everybody goes to the terminal point with the lens. He in the lens is in a sweat, but has not panted, has grimaced to me yet. It is known that that lazy fellow wants to keep strength to accompany me to stroll around the scenery. When resume spirit of coming over the setting sun set already, I to ride the setting sun mere, we undergo the white dyke along West Lake from dyke Su, though has already tired out, one No. of scenery lets us can't help stopping the step, take a group photo and regard as memory, No. one is filled with the happy laughters and cheerful voices. I will collect this picture at this moment.

      Summer - -Unhappy weather, and has not let my mood be very bad, but has added one more piece of calmness. Though is still in the unemployment, all is because of unemployment, there is enough relaxing time, enjoy a person's life. The bright moon looking up at sometimes, will shine so that I am heart-broken - -Miss and miss. The once love is pure as water, colourless and tasteless, very transparent.

      It is a cool summer in summer in Ningbo, the sea wind blew slowly, blew to the unhappy mood in the daytime at the ends of the earth. At night, about three Jiangkou of our looks, catches the night scene beautiful hand in hand together, the agreement should go out of way of 12,500 kilometers in life. In July, we went to the seashore to step on the wave, play, left pairs of heavy and small footprints. This incomparable summer when cherishes the memory of passes by quickly, vacation when the last one is happy leave for at yesterday too.

      In summer of another year, the tenth we mean the button is promising the original agreement firmly, calculate and just walk out one in life. One neither long nor short in year, one year we ripe a lot of, ideas are more too. Always in go through, know how around thing most precious lose, people, so all of us' efforts, make great efforts to let the other side treasure oneself even more.

     You do not just come over to see me once in two weeks at my side in summer of this year, you say I am selfish, there is not once that see you. I admit, go, watch you incorrect, can go, see what can you change. Save some car fare and buy more garments and pack oneself. It always thunders this summer, finally, thunder it is more and more too after perhaps reached summering, my heart has left for a while, has stopped like this thunder too.

       Too many things will happen in 2008, the love of explaining like " dense male genital " that must cause some hysteria of mine. The grief of life, will draw the rest in our love? Can guarantee no one, can last copies of deep and eternal love heart with.

      The harvest in autumn has brought a pleasant surprise to me. I born in autumn, autumn but happiness, for autumn being sentimental. When you appear, happy sentimental to find home, I fluid heart find, find sustenance even. Find oneself excited in accordance with fall in love with first you that shouldn't long for, but I am no longer vast and hazy at that time. That autumn, having left our trace of ten thousand flowering shrubs, the passage picture left our emotion. When the autumn air is fresh, our interdependent difficulty in the face of happening suddenly; When the moon produce clear sky, we snuggle up to and sketch the contours of the happy dream.

      In autumn of another year, work so busily, have no time and go through and think of too many things, day passed by in this way, the memory left has sample with you only. When being happy, like child, nestle you, want you to coax me to be happy, you always say I am a childlike child. When being sad, like a lunatic goes frantic, give vent to all unhappy things on you. And you just bear quietly, say I am a childlike child.

      In cold winter, freeze so that my hand is blue. The hands that you are white and abundant give play to its greatest function now. Big hands hold small hands tight, tell it it is no longer cold this winter. Came back home in a busy one day, it has been already dark. Phone you and say you have not come back yet, have asked the tired out body to come back home, push away and open the door lonelily, has found red rose and fragrant wine more. It is here behind that you hide from, holding candle and cake will say to me: Happy Valentine's Day!

      In winter, nestle you, go to the cinema with you. The most unforgettable one is and you eat the roast chicken and see the film, feel the drawing room of the whole shadow is on we two.

      New Year reached, we did transient parting. In the day to have you, I feel sad, I comfort oneself at my side straight, all of us should be strong. Perhaps one day, we will all leave, then we don't be sad either, because we have already passed by spring, summer, autumn or winter of a few years, all of us leave happy memory every day, perhaps you and I will all forget every day, but will not forget our four seasons. We want to dry the tears, believe that future is beautiful. Once a section of sincere love was put in front of us, all of us did not treasure carefully, but we want to keep it carefully, we want to digest it slowly the time of the next lifetime.
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Roast black carp of spring onions
Cook spring onions roast black carp today, who ask me cook delicious at yesterday, room-mate buy one come back, let me cook also.

     Certainly this main material is a black carp, lots of spring onions.

     Batching can careless either, burn deliciously, these things are very important. I depend on them completely.

     Besides daily necessaries, also need cooking wine, candy, ginger slice, head of garlic, hot pepper and octagonal.

     Cook pan hot at first, quench oil into, and then put black carps, the epidermis is a little yellow that fry, then put the soy sauce, the soy sauce had better be that the delicious food is delicious, it is not enough to put a little more for the color to always smoke, in this way the color is ultra good, add a little more a small amount of water, add a little more yellow wine, then put three hot peppers, a piece of octagonal, lots of spring onions, add right amount of candies, vinegar and salt, cover it on the pan stuffily and burn for a moment, when the color of the spring onions is turned into colors as decoction and when the soup is of dense juice and thick, the pan can arise to put a small amount of gourmet powder.

     How about it, let's have a try, is uncertain or according to my taste according to my order. The taste which I burn out: Have acid in being sweet, acid have hot, have fragrant in being hot, coloured in being fragrant. I to think of, want, do so, put so many condiment to want, set free so temporarily at yesterday too time not burning at yesterday too. Having burnt too before this, so much condiment is put, taste was not strong finally. But two result come out to cook these really very good, I and room-mate leave one skeleton, hot pepper and garlic, ginger, 8 only whom fish of plate take two day continuously, almost even decoction is mixed the meal is eaten.

     It is an extempore art too to cook, it needs inspiration too to cook. Burn and look, taste, it is the best appraisal on the works to eat up the whole dish.
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