extended into the access roads at the two ends of the longwall face, so that the plough can win coal along the entire length of the longwall face. The disadvantage of this arrangement is that the heavy and bulky drive units for the plough and the conveyor are accommodated in the access roads themselves, which is obviously undesirable.
The aim of the invention is to produce a mineral mining installation incorporating a comparatively simple and light auxiliary winning machine for winning material in a "stable-hole" region.New Hope for Endangered Eels, Japanese Summer Delicacy

Self-proclaimed “Dr. Eel” Katsumi Tsukamoto poses on July 27, 2017, beside an eel statue on the Shonan campus of Nihon University, south of Tokyo. A professor at the only “Eel Science Laboratory” in Japan, Tsukamoto believes that complete farming of Japanese eels will be a commercially viable possibility after only a decade. The endangered Japanese summer delicacy may get a new lease on life with commercial farming. (AP Photo/Sherry Zheng)

FUJISAWA, Japan (AP) — The Japanese summer delicacy of roasted eel, braised with a tangy sauce and sprinkled with prickly mountain pepper, is in question as the creatures with their mysterious migrations become increasingly endangered.

Soaring demand for Japanese eel, or Anguilla japonica, helped put the creatures on the International Union of Conservation