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Aspects of Weather- The student will recognize various aspects of weather.
Atomic Structure- The students will be able to locate the three basic parts of a atom on a diagram.
Atomic Structures - Students will be able to calculate the number of neutrons based off the number of protons and the atomic weight.
Atomic Structure and Ionic Bonding (A Visual Approach)- Determine the number of protons, neutrons and electrons for a given element by using the periodic table.
Atoms - At the end of the lesson students should be able to label a diagram of a atom on their own and be able to make calculations if given the atomic mass.
Chemistry is Crystal Clear- Understand that crystals have six basic shapes.
Classification of the Chemical Elements- Students will learn about some of the important chemical and physical properties of the elements.
Color, Light and Excited Electrons- Identify wave parts - crest, frequency, wavelength, trough. Recognize visible light as part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Composition of the Atom- The students will be able to construct a model of the atom for any element. A performance assessment will be made of this task.
Concentration vs Solubility- The student will be able to distinguish between concentration and solubility.
Crystals- Compare the patterns to basic models of the six crystal systems.
Density: An Introduction- The student will conclude that solid objects of the same size and shape can have different weights and therefore different densities.
Density: Floating, Sinking, and Suspending- The students will observe the change in density by using a variety of different objects to make them float, sink, or suspend in various liquid solutions.
Growing Crystals from Solutions- Forming crystals in three-dimensional patterns from solutions.
How Strong Is The Solution?- Make a mixture of food coloring and water and then determine which solution is stronger, using bleach to remove the color.
Ion (Derstand) Bonding through Energy Level Diagrams- Determine the number of valence electrons using energy level diagrams.
Models of Hydrocarbons- Determine and Construct models of Hydrocarbons.
Mole Relations- Students should be able to: (a) define the "mole"; (b) state the mole relationship between components of a chemical equation.
Molecular Architecture- This was a presentation of a relatively inexpensive model system for use in chemistry or some biology classes. It could also be used in junior high science classes.
Moles, Moles, Moles- Define a mole and measure out a mole by mass or volume.
Mystery: Structure of the Atom - A Case for Indirect Evidence- To acquaint Junior High students with the history, through indirect evidence, of the discovery of each component of the atom with hands on simulation activities.
Periodic Table- To introduce to the students how the periodic chart came into existence.
Polymer- Students will be able to: 1) understand the meaning of a polymer, 2) observe and compare the properties of a polymer, 3) describe the relationship between smaller individual molecules joined together to form the larger polymer molecules, 4) explore common uses of polymers, 5) learn safety and experimental techniques.
Radiation Energy- Explain that radiation energy is all around us and that it can be measured even though it cannot be seen. Understand several ways that radiation (from radioisotopes) helps us every day.
Reading The Periodic Table- Categorize a group of shells and unknown elements using different characteristics.
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Structure of the Atom- Perform a phenomenological activity to illustrate the various concepts of the atom.
Surface Tension of Water- To use the phenomenological approach to demonstrate the basic concepts associated with surface tension.
The Marvels of the Molecule- Describe the concept of the molecule. Create a model of a water molecule.
The Mole- The role of a unifying hypothesis (law) and the reasoning process leading to Avogadro's hypothesis.
The Science of Color and Light- Recognize and identify happy/sad and winter/summer colors from the story -Understand how people see colors.
The Structure of an Atom - To investigate and understand the modern and historical models of atomic structure a. the contributions of Dalton, Thomson, Rutherford, and Bohr in understanding the atom.
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What's The Matter?- Students will be able to name the three states of matter. Students will be able to state the properties of the different states of matter.
Why Are Electrons Important?- Given the location of an element on the periodic table, the student will be able to give the highest energy level the valence electrons are on, and how many valence electrons it has.


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23.12.21 Which brands sell the most SUVs in Russia?
For 9 months of 2021, 586.7 thousand new cars of the SUV segment were sold in our country
The Ministry of Industry and Trade will start a competitive selection for the conclusion of a SPIC on electric vehicles
The Ministry of Industry and Trade plans to start a competitive selection of applications from electric transport manufacturers for the conclusion of SPIC 2.0 at the beginning of 2022. This was announced by Dmitry Chernov, Deputy Director of the Department of Automotive Industry and Railway Engineering, by noting that the Ministry of Industry and Trade has prepared proposals for introducing electric vehicles into the program of preferential car loans, under which a discount of 25% will be provided for their purchase.
Also, electric transport will be available under the concessional leasing program, where a subsidy from the state will already be about 30% of the cost of a vehicle, writes the TASS agency. In addition, according to Dmitry Chernov, the Ministry of Industry and Trade plans to include components for the creation of hydrogen transport in the localization scoring system. He also added that the ministry plans to raise the score of traction batteries for electric vehicles to 1000 points. According to the department, it will create an additional incentive for automakers and component suppliers.
Recall that in August 2021, the Russian government approved a concept for the development of production and use of electric road transport in Russia for the period up to 2030, developed by the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia in conjunction with the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia. The adopted document will help to create conditions for the production and use of electric vehicles in Russia, and will allow domestic manufacturers to occupy their niche in the global market.
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To ensure continuous feedback for the Company's employees and counterparties directly with the Company's management regarding prevention and counteraction of illegal actions, RusHydro has established a 24/7 Trust Line that includes various special communication channels.
The Company's Trust Line is operated by the Company's Internal Control and Risk Management Unit, responsible for processing calls in strict confidence as per RusHydro internal documents.
Please note that this address is only intended for letters pertaining to RusHydro activities.
Letters with offers of services, employment or other messages not immediately falling within the scope of the Company's activities will not be considered or forwarded to other RusHydro units.
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1.1. The Trust Line is established within the scope of the Program of Measures for Identifying and Preventing Fraud and Unlawful Actions of the Company's Employees and Counterparties.
1.2. The Trust Line operating rules (hereinafter the "Rules") are intended to regulate acceptance, handling, taking of appropriate measures (as may be necessary) with respect to, and preparing responses to calls from Callers.
1.3. Director for Internal Control and Risk Management guarantees the confidentiality of information contained in calls.
1.4. Callers have the right to receive responses to their calls within the time limits established by the Company's local regulatory documents (regulations), provided the calls are properly prepared and sent as per these Rules, save for anonymous calls.
1.5. Calls prepared and sent in violation of these Rules or provided anonymously are handled at the discretion of the Director for Internal Control and Risk Management.
1.6. If the issue addressed in a call cannot be substantively responded to without disclosing state secrets or the Company's commercial secrets, the Caller sending such call may be informed that the issue in question cannot be responded as the indicated information may not be disclosed.
2.1. Calls are accepted both using a special feedback form on the Company's website andcorporate portal Trust Line, by e-mail, auto answerphone, as well as immediately by the Director for Internal Control and Risk Management in the course of a personal meeting.
– A brief description of the call subject matter (information, facts, circumstances, possible reasons, full name and title of involved persons, consequences, including potential (estimated) material damage for the Company, recommendations, etc.).
– The Company's scope of activities in which the violation was committed (procurement, HR management, etc.).
– The name of the Company's unit in which the violation was committed.
– The period of time during which the violation took/is taking or might take place, and frequency (repeatedly, once).
– Full name and details to contact the caller to specify the information contained in the call and to send the response after the call is processed (at the discretion of the Caller).
2.3. Calls may be sent by e-mail to: ld@rushydro.ru (from any mail box from an external Internet segment).
2.4. Calls may be sent using a special feedback form at the Company's website/corporate portal, for which please log on to the special Trust Line page on the Company's corporate portal at http://my.rushydro.ru/helpful/pubrec/default.aspx or at the Company's website at http://www.rushydro.ru/, follow the Trust Line link and fill in the special feedback form.
2.5. Calls may be made by auto answerphone. Please call +7(495) 710-5463 (round-the-clock), wait for the signal and leave a voice message.
2.6. Calls may also be made at a personal meeting with the Director for Internal Control and Risk Management (hereinafter the "meeting").
2.6.1. An application for the meeting may be sent via the communication channels indicated in clauses 3.3, 3.4 and 3.5 hereof or through the personal assistant by 7 (495) 225-3232 ext. 16-51.
2.6.2. The application shall include the subject matter of the call, contact details and preferable time and place of the meeting.
2.7. The procedure for handling and preparing responses to Trust Company's local regulatory document (regulation).
– Distribute deliberately misleading information that discredits the honor and dignity of the Company's employees or their family members.
– Abuse or threaten life, health or property of the Company's employees or their family members.
– Pursue any other illegal goals or goals contravening public order or morals.
– Distribute any advertising information or send information not directly relating to the Company's activity.


This brilliant human social network model sounds very useful also to understand the fascinating social media viral mechanism.
1) Not all the people in the network are the same.
Different people have different number of connections. In networks representation (pict 1), the nodes are the people and the lines are the connections. The number of connections that a node has, is called the degree of a node.
2) Position withing the network matters.
Central nodes have higher degree (Pict 2), which means that people more central in the network have more connections than people on the sides. So, for instance, A has more chances to get the thing that is currently spreading in the network and to get it sooner than B. Therefore, the ideal way to track something that is spreading through the network, is to monitor people in the center of the network rather then monitoring random people.
3) Your Friends have more friends then you do.
This is the friendship paradox. Basically friends of randomly chosen people have higher degree and are more central in the network than the random people themselves. Why? because people with many friends have more probabilities to be friend of random people. So the easy way to get closer and closer to the center of the network is simply to ask random people to nominate their friends.
All this is great, but how can these points be translated for social media strategies?
Well, according to this theory, if we want an idea to go viral through a social network, we have to get the most central people of the network to know about this idea. How do we get to them? By asking random people to involve their friends, which, in social media, means finding creative ideas to engage random people to involve their friends.
Putting it in Twitter terms, it could simply mean engaging random people to retweet your tweets and, in Facebook terms, engaging random people to share and 'like' your page, because the main target are not the people you randomly get in contact with, but their friends.


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St Regis debuts in Kuala Lumpur
5 May 2016 by BusinessTraveller
Starwood's St Regis brand has opened its first property in the Malaysian capital.
The 208-room St Regis Kuala Lumpur is located within the mixed use KL Sentral development, with views of the Lake Gardens, the National Museum and Houses of Parliament.
Features include guestrooms starting from 63 sqm, six food and beverage options including Taka by Sushi Saito by three Michelin-starred Japanese chef Takashi Saito, the Crystal rooftop bar, and the Drawing Room for Afternoon Tea (complete with its own tea sommelier).
There is an outdoor swimming pool, fitness centre, yoga room and Iridium Spa, and over 10,000 sqm of events space.
The hotel also features an art collection including a 3.5 metre-high horse sculpture by Colombian artist Fernando Botero, and Grace Thunder, a diptych of two 4.9-metre hand-etched leather murals by Wales-born Mark Evans.
Starwood recently opened its first St Regis hotel in Malaysia – an all-suite resort property with a 600-metre private beach in Langkawi (see news March 16).
The luxury brand is also set to open properties in the Maldives, Changsha and Cairo this year.
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Mark Caswell
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Google Chrome –Why SEO Is More Important Now Than Ever Before?
1. Why has SEO become more important now than ever with Chrome?
2. Why should you emphasize now on making website Chrome Compatibility and do Google Optimization?
3. Why pseudo SEO knowledge does not help companies manipulate rankings now?
4. Why marketers need to pay attentions to Chrome or ignore at their peril?
5. Why appropriate content wins while scarp will be thrown out of Google index?
Search engine optimization has become a critical need especially when Google Chrome is now launched. Yes, this browser suggests the top websites based on organic web ranking, CTR, unique and daily visits, etc. However, if your SEO efforts aren't up to mark or fail to win the top slot on Organic Results Page in Google, the giant search engine will surely ignore you in the testing of their browser, too.
If Chrome attains huge success in the coming years, Google will test against your site - if you rank. SEO companies or online marketers need to pay heed to, or ignore at their peril.
If users think your site is worth to remember, Google Chrome will do it for them. No… you don't need to bookmark, the next time you open the browser chrome will suggest what you have visited last time. Furthermore, if your site ranks for keywords on organic page, Chrome will suggest it in the browser itself. There is no need to use Google suggest.
Just have a look at the Chrome comic pics.
Google Chrome suggests that if you make your content remarkable, they'll market it for free to their users directly in the OmniBox. However, time will only tell how this new browser does but marketers should start paying attention to this right now.
Beyond doubt, millions of users must have installed this browser by now. With this, box checked and search will become semantic. Search compatible website with appropriate content will continue to find place in check box. Artificially or black hat SEO will soon droop its ranking while ethical SEO of website with good content will gain in rankings based on Chrome's statistics.
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Why Stevia Is a Great Dietary Choice for People with Diabetes
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Like everybody else, you and other people with diabetes want to enjoy the "sweetness" in a soft drink or tabletop sweetener.
At the same time, you want to reduce the role that sugar plays in your caloric intake. Not surprisingly, stevia – a zero-calorie natural sweetener – has been a popular choice in the diabetes community for a long time. If you haven't yet heard of it, chances are you will soon.
The use of the stevia leaf itself was pioneered by many diabetes patients in the U.S. 10 or 15 years ago, even before mainstream brands like Truvia put it in front of most general shoppers. Today, large food and beverage companies are starting to introduce en masse products that are formulated using stevia.
What is stevia, and what makes it a healthy choice for diabetics?
Grown primarily in Paraguay, Brazil and China, the stevia plant is grown for its sweet leaves. In fact, the extract of the leaves of Stevia rebaudiana – one of many stevia species – is approximately 200 times sweeter than sugar, but does not promote tooth decay. Stevia has been consumed for decades as a sweetener in Japan, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the use of stevia extract as a food additive in 2008.
In addition to its sweetness, stevia has no calories or carbohydrates, giving it no glycemic load and making it a favorite option among those with diabetes. Studies have also indicated that stevia may even have direct medicinal effects. These preliminary studies have shown that stevia may be used to lower or stabilize blood sugar levels, that it can raise "good" cholesterol levels and reduce "bad" cholesterol levels in the human body, and that it may help to lower high blood pressure.
Another benefit of stevia – one that distinguishes it from some other alternatives to sugar – is its ability to remain stable under high temperatures. As a result, it can be used to cook and sweeten a wide range of products including coffee, tea, oatmeal, cakes, jelly, bread and chocolate.
Who is using stevia?
Multinational food and beverage companies, including Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, are starting to look into stevia as a healthier alternative sweetener for their flagship products. Stevia is currently marketed under the trade names Truvia (Coca-Cola and agricultural giant Cargill), PureVia (PepsiCo and Whole Earth Sweetener Company), and SweetLeaf (Wisdom Natural Brands). Both Coca-Cola and PepsiCo intend to use stevia as a soft-drink sweetener in the U.S., but haven't yet unveiled stevia-sweetened cola versions of Coke or Pepsi.
Given the wide recognition of the harmful effects of sugar, it is almost inevitable that food manufacturers and individual families – and especially those with diabetes – will learn more about stevia's benefits and decide to adopt it on a large scale.
Meanwhile, companies such as Stevia First Corp., an early-stage agribusiness based in California's Central Valley, are focusing on the industrial-scale production of stevia. Stevia First Corp. is developing stevia products in the U.S. as a domestic alternative to Chinese suppliers who account for more than 80 percent of stevia production today.
As I and many others involved in stevia production believe, this sweet leaf is bound to have a bright future as an alternative to sugar and other sugar substitutes in diets around the world – and it may do wonders to keep those with diabetes healthier.
For more information, please visit www.steviafirst.com.
Robert Brooke is a co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Stevia First Corporation, an early-stage agribusiness based in California's Central Valley and focused on the industrial scale production of stevia.
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2,000 kids given confidence along with their free new shoes
DALLAS, Tx. - Manny Ohonme received his first pair of shoes from a missionary when he was a 9-year-old in Nigeria.
That one pair of shoes changed his life. He started playing sports, and many shoes later, came to America on a basketball scholarship. He now runs the organization Samaritan's Feet [https://www.samaritansfeet.org/]. Together with its partners, the organization has distributed 7 million pairs of shoes in 88 countries and 325 U.S. cities.
"So don't tell me you can't change the world. One person can make a difference," Ohonme told FOX 4.
Recently a dozen North Texas churches hosted an event with Samaritan's Feet at St. Philips School in Dallas. Over 200 volunteers washed the feet of 2,000 Dallas children before giving them some new shoes and socks.
"Some of these children haven't had new shoes in six months, a year, two years. Some children are walking around with shoes three sizes too small," explained project coordinator Damita Jo Crosby.
But volunteers weren't only asking them their shoe sizes. They asked them about their goals in life.
"He was talking to me about what do I want to be when I grow up? I said I want to be a math teacher because I like math that's my favorite subject. I believe I could be a community helper too," said 9-year-old Jahzara Walls.
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We ran very well last night. The boys swept all 3 races. The girls were 2nd in each race behind some very talented and hard working teams from Rock Canyon and ThunderRidge. I am very pleased with the way we performed. As a TEAM you did an excellent job rising to the occasion and stepping up for your teammates.
Although the competitive season is over for the majority of the TEAM everyone is still welcome to show up and run. If you are ready for a break go ahead and take it. I will post more info this weekend about time off after XC. My general rule of thumb is that if you plan on running track this spring take 2 full weeks off from running before starting back up again. I will post more detailed information this weekend about time off after XC.
Today at practice (Wed) I will have individual conversations with people about the NXR race. Please remember that it is an expectation that you are at all practices between now and the AZ trip, including fall break, if you are going to attend the trip.
If there are any seniors that have been in the program (both XC and track) for 4 years, are interested in the trip to Arizona, and understand the commitment level involved please come talk to me privately.


The San Diego Padres and the Chicago Cubs will both be trying to pick up a win on Thursday when they battle at Wrigley Field.
Eric Stults will be the starting pitcher for the Padres on this day. Lefthander Stults is 2-2 this season with a 5.67 ERA.
Starting this game for the Cubs will be Travis Wood. The lefthander has a 2.25 ERA to go along with a 2-1 record this season.
Oddsmakers currently have the Cubs listed as 131-moneyline favorites versus the Padres, while the game's total is sitting at 8.
In their last action, San Diego was a 6-2 loser on the road against the Cubs. Bettors on Chicago at +110 on the moneyline collected their winnings from that game, while the total score (8) sent UNDER bettors home happy as well.


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Jezebel's Daughter
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Wilkie Collins was a British author best known for his mystery novels.  Some of Collins' classics include The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name.  This edition of Jezebel's Daughter includes a table of contents.
Wilkie Collins (January 8, 1824-September 23, 1889) was the author of thirty novels, more than sixty short stories, fourteen plays (including an adaptation of The Moonstone), and more than one...
Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel
William Trevor
The denizens of a crumbling Dublin hotel are the subject of a meddling photographer in this Booker Prize–shortlisted "masterpiece" (Irish Times). Once a flourishing establishment, O'Neill's Hotel has fallen on hard times. The same could be said for the people who live there. Among them are Mrs. Sinnott, the elderly, deaf, and mute proprietor; her drunkard son, Eugene; Morrissey, a small-time pimp; and the grim, lone porter O'Shea. But what might sound bleak to some holds irresistible allure for globetrotting photographer Ivy Eckdorf.   Hearing stories of O'Neill's Hotel from an ocean liner barman, Eckdorf catches the unmistakable whiff of human interest. Surely some tragic story hides within this crumbling corner of Ireland. Now she intends to uncover that story, frame it just so, and turn it into her next coffee table book. Though she has no connection to these hard-luck souls, she has arrived. And no one's life will be the same—not even hers.   "An astounding richness of pathos, humour and tragedy." —Francis King   "A small work of art [that] reaches antic heights." —The New York Times
Through Every Storm - Darcy And...
Leenie Brown
Forced to marry. Deeply in love. If only each knew the other's heart.
A gambler, a profligate and forcibly married to the silly daughter of a country gentleman, no one expected George Wickham to amount to much, nor did they expect him to fall deeply in love with his wife.  When that wife takes an unplanned tripin the company of another gentleman, leaving Wickham and her children behind,he will be forced to face his fears and fight for those he holds dear.
When her funds run low, Lydia Wickham chooses to travel to Derbyshire to seek help from her sister.  What she finds when her husband arrives to take her home is not the kind of help she expected, but exactly the kind she needs.  Will she be able to overcome her shortcomings and prove herself worthy of the one person she cannot bear to disappoint?
Through Every Storm is part of Leenie Brown's Other Pens Collection of books that picks up the storytelling pen where Jane Austen put it down. If you like well-written stories of sweet redemption, then you will love this story about a couple whom everyone discarded as hopeless finding the help they need to save their love and claim a happily ever after that seemed lost forever.
So, put the kettle on, pick up your copy of Through Every Storm, and step into a sweet romance, set eight years after the close of Pride and Prejudice, that is filled with trials and fears and tinged with the vibrant hues of hope, redemption, and love that is worth fighting for.
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He's an annoyance. She's a puzzle. Together, they make sparks fly.
Caroline Bingley 's greatest desire is to marry a wealthy gentleman with an estate. However, Pemberley and its master have been lost.  While this is a most unfortunate turn of events, it's not the worst of it, for Caroline's brother insists that he will marry his most recent angel despite the lady's ridiculous family.
And Caroline? Well, she must return to Netherfield and perform the part of perfect hostess for her brother and the gentleman she has lost, as well as his sister and his annoyingly direct cousin.
Colonel Richard Fitzwilliam has always found Caroline Bingley attractive. However, by focusing on her sharp tongue, he has deftly managed to avoid any entanglement that might threaten his plan not to marry.
Having been challenged to re-evaluate his opinion of Caroline, Richard has found himself unable to resist the puzzle she presents.
While Richard attempts to understand and Caroline attempts not to offend, love works its magic causing hearts to become engaged. But is love's enchantment powerful enough for a gentleman bent on remaining single and a lady equally as determined to marry only a man with an estate to come to an understanding? Or will love find itself rejected and shivering under the stars of a winter's night?
One Winter's Eve is the sequel to Two Days Before Christmas and just one of Leenie Brown's numerous Pride and Prejudice inspired stories. If you like well-written, sweet romance starring a flawed heroine in need of guidance and a determined hero bent on seeing her improve, then you'll love this story where love rises above imperfections revealing itself as an instrument that is matchless in its ability to affect change and bring lasting joy.
So, put the kettle on, pick up your copy of One Winter's Eve, and snuggle in for a sweet romantic read.
Confounding Caroline: A Pride...
He thought his future was bleak, but a well-orchestrated misstep might just bring him the happiness he seeks.
Fitzwilliam Darcy has experienced the sadness that currently resides in the eyes of his friend, Charles Bingley. Determined to see Bingley happy, Darcy confesses his part in creating the despondence his friend now feels and prepares to suffer the separation that will ensue.
However, what he expects and what he gets are very different things. Instead of facing a lonely life filled with heartache, he finds himself standing at the beginning of a path leading to not only his friend's happiness but his own as well.
It will not, however, be an easy path. There will be obstacles to overcome, but with a little help and scheming, no impediment will be too insurmountable – not even Caroline Bingley.
Confounding Caroline is the first book in Leenie Brown's Marrying Elizabeth series of Pride and Prejudice inspired stories.  If you like well-written, sweet romance with determined heroes and surprising heroines willing to push the bounds of comfort and propriety to claim their one true love, then you will love this story about out-scheming a schemer in the quest for the chance at a happily ever after.
So, put the kettle on, grab your copy of Confounding Caroline, and slip into a world of unexpected mischief and join Darcy on the first leg of his journey to happily ever after.
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This book is a collection of short and sweet Austen-inspired stories intended to be a light pick-me-up . . . a bit of fluff to brighten your day.
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A Music Room Meeting
A look at the beginning of Richard and Harriet's relationship
From Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
With All My Love
A letter from Edmund to Fanny
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Mr. Bingley Plans a Ball
Mr. Bingley returns to Netherfield
From Tolerable to Lovely
A ballroom blunder stops Mr. Darcy's famous disparagement
A Battle of Wills and Words
Elizabeth engages in a verbal joust with Colonel Fitzwilliam
Two Days in November
Darcy and Elizabeth embark on a plan to bring happiness to Jane


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Home News everton eyeing up a move for mohammed kudus
Everton eyeing up a move for Mohammed Kudus
Everton are interested in signing the Ghanaian midfielder Mohammed Kudus this summer.
According to Ghana web, Everton have already begun negotiations with the player's club, FC Nordsjaelland.
The 18-year-old is quite highly rated and it will be interesting to see if the two clubs manage to reach an agreement for his services.
If the transfer goes through, Kudus is likely to join up with Everton's youth side. He is unlikely to make an impact on the first team just yet.
It would certainly be on for the future.
Everton have done well to develop young talents into first-team stars over the years and they will be hoping to do the same with Kudus if the transfer goes through.
As for the player, he might be tempted to move to England and join a big club like Everton.
He will know that a top class youth setup and a first-team manager like Marco Silva could help him fulfill his potential in future.
The highly-rated midfielder can play as forward as well. However, he is at his best as an attacking midfielder.
The 18-year-old managed to score three goals for FC Nordsjaelland this past season.
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Кристоффер Вильхельм Эккерсберг (; 2 января 1783, Блокрог — 22 июля 1853, Копенгаген) — датский  и педагог, основоположник Золотого века датского искусства в области живописи.

Биография
Кристоффер Эккерсберг родился в Блокроге () на юге полуострова Ютландия. С 1803 года учился в Академии художеств в Копенгагене, закончил её в 1809 году с золотой медалью и получил стипендию для поездки в Париж. В 1811—1812 годах учился в мастерской у Ж. Л. Давида. В 1813—1816 годах жил в Риме. С 1817 года — профессор Академии художеств в Копенгагене, в 1827—1829 — её директор. Из-за проблем со зрением в 1840 годах перестал писать. Умер 22 июля 1853 года в Копенгагене во время эпидемии холеры. Похоронен в Копенгагене.

Творчество
Эккерсберг испытал значительное влияние классицизма, оказал важное воздействие на развитие национальной датской школы живописи, явился основоположником Золотого века датской живописи.

Ранние пейзажи итальянского периода «Тибр около Понте Ротто»; «Вид сквозь арки Колизея», «Интерьер Колизея» (Государственный музей искусств) исполнены в манере академической пейзажной живописи XIX века. В Италии Эккерсберг написал и портрет скульптора Б. Торвальдсена (1814). Полотно написано в манере неоклассицистического портрета рубежа XVIII—XIX вв. в строгом и выразительном стиле. В подобной манере исполнены и полотна «Госпожа Шмидт» (1814), «Семейство Натансон» (1818), «Девушка из семьи Марсман» (1820). Из поздних картин следует назвать морские пейзажи «Русский линейный корабль на рейде» (1828), «Морской пейзаж с парусником» (1831—32), «Корвет "Галатея" в бурю» (1839) и портрет «Женщина перед зеркалом» (1841). Пейзажи Эккерсберга отличаются красочной, светлой и нежной гаммой, точностью исполнения.

Галерея

Примечания

Литература
 Johansen P. Den danske malerkunsts bader Christopher Wilhelm Eckersberg. — København; Flensborg, 1925.
 To nationale malere: Christen Købke, Jørn Rulow, Christopher Eckersberg. — Odense, 1945.
 C. W. Eckersberg i Rom. 1813—1816 / Red. Duveke Helsted. — København, 1983.
 La Brie Sloan Th. Neoclassical and Romantic Painting in Denmark, 1734—1848. — Evanston, Illinois, 1972.
 Willoch S. Tegningen av C. W. Eckersberg i det norske Nasional-galeri, utrykt artikel. — København, 1983.

Художники-пейзажисты Дании
Похороненные в Копенгагене
Выпускники Датской королевской академии изящных искусств
Преподаватели Датской королевской академии изящных искусств
Директора Датской королевской академии изящных искусств
Ученики Жака Луи Давида
Художники-педагоги

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Shoah week on PBS
By Tom Tugend and JTA April 6, 2010, 7:20 pm 0 Edit
LOS ANGELES — The Public Broadcasting Service will offer U.S. television viewers a concentrated history lesson during Holocaust Remembrance Week, with seven films and documentaries on Jewish death and defiance in the past and on the genocides of the present.
Four main films will be aired in prime time by 365 member stations, starting April 11 with a broadcast of the British version of "The Diary of Anne Frank" at 9 p.m., sponsored in part by the Jewish Federations of North America (check local listings to confirm date and time).
The story of the high-spirited Jewish girl in hiding from the Nazis for two years in a crowded Amsterdam attic, while at the same time facing the highs and lows of adolescence and first love, is too familiar and revered to permit tampering with the plot. However, director Jon Jones does allow himself to vary the relationships among the key characters.
Ellie Kendrick (one of the young school girls in "An Education") gives us an Anne with all her exuberance, as well as occasional orneriness and chutzpah. But the major surprise is Otto Frank, Anne's father, as portrayed by Iain Glen.
In her intimate diary, Ann was not uncritical of her parents, and Otto has been frequently pictured as cold and ineffectual.
By contrast, in the current production, Otto is very much the central and dominating figure, who keeps his family and their friends from falling apart amid the crowded tension and boredom of their tight quarters.
It is also Otto who enforces a degree of normalcy in the most abnormal of circumstances. The three adult men in the attic dress in jacket and tie, and in the celebration of a joyous Chanukah the actors seem to convince themselves and the viewers that all is (or soon will be) alright with the world.
"Among the Righteous," airing April 12 at 10 p.m., documents the dogged search by historian and writer Robert Satloff to track down and verify any instances in which Arabs aided their Jewish neighbors while Hitler's Afrika Corps swept across North Africa.
Satloff, the executive director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, embarked on his quest after noticing during a visit to Yad Vashem that there was not a single Arab listed among the Righteous Christians and, mainly Albanian Muslims, who sheltered or saved Jews during the Holocaust.
His research turned up evidence of 100 forced labor and concentration camps in Tunisia and Morocco, one so notorious that it was known as the "Buchenwald in the Desert."
Satloff finds his hero in Khaled Abdul-Wahab, a prosperous Tunis businessman, who, like Oskar Schindler, entertained Nazi officials to cover sheltering Jewish families on his family farm.
There is also a brief testimony by Tunisian-born Sivan Shalom, Israel's former foreign minister, on the help extended to his father by Arab friends.
"Blessed Is the Match," scheduled for April 13 at 10 p.m., recounts the bravery of Hannah Senesh, a young poet and diarist. In 1944, Senesh joined an elite group of Palestinian Jews to parachute behind Nazi lines and rescue Jews in her native Hungary.
Senesh was caught, tortured and executed by the Germans, but her name lives on in the annals of Israeli heroism.
Turning from the horrors of the past to the bloody present (and future), historian Daniel Goldhagen (author of "Hitler's Willing Executioners") premieres his book and documentary feature, "Worse Than War," on April 14 at 9 p.m. on PBS.
Looking at the sorry record of the last 100 years, Goldhagen counts 100 million civilians, mostly women and children, killed in genocides in Turkey, Ukraine, Nazi-occupied Europe, China, Cambodia and on to Guatemala, Bosnia, Rwanda and Darfur.
That staggering figure, he says, exceeds all the military deaths in all the wars of the century.
Followed by a camera crew, Goldhagen last year went to 10 countries in Asia, Africa, the former Soviet Union and Central America, interviewing survivors, perpetrators and families of victims.
Amid horrifying footage and testimony, Goldhagen tries to make some sense of it all, seeking the causes — and possible solutions — to prevent future "ethnic cleansings." or, the term he prefers, "eliminationism."
Also during Holocaust Remembrance Week, a limited number of public broadcasting stations will carry two more documentaries, "Holy Lands: Jerusalem & The West Bank" and "House of Life: The Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague," as well as a play-within-a-play, "Imagine This."
The cinematic version of a recent London stage musical, "Imagine This" is arguably the most startling and complex of the week's offerings.
It opens with a group of bourgeois Jewish families in Warsaw enjoying an outing at a merry-go-round, when Nazi dive bombers interrupt the idyll.
Next, crammed into a ghetto, Daniel, the leader of the Jewish inmates, decides to buck up their spirits by putting on a play.
The presence of a flourishing theater, and even an orchestra and library, most notably in the Lodz Ghetto, is historically correct and was dramatized in Joshua Sobol's memorable "Ghetto."
For his production, Daniel chooses the last stand of the Jews against the Romans at Masada, with obvious similarities to the "actors'" present situation.
In parallel, the characters as ghetto inmates and Masada resisters are faced with the choice of surrender or defiance.


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Current Affairs International Current Affairs Space Missions
China plans 1st Manned MARS Mission in 2033
China National Space Administration has planned to send its first crewed mission to MARS in 2033.
Manned MARS Mission (MMM) will be launched with regular follow-up flights.
China's Mars Mission will be launched with a long-term plan to build a permanently inhabited base on MARS and extract its resources.
This ambitious plan will intensify a race with United States to put humans on MARS.
Plan was disclosed after China landed a robotic rover on Red Planet in May 2021. It was China's inaugural MARS mission.
Manned Mission by China
The People's Republic of China has planned manned launches to Mars for 2033, 2035, 2037, 2041 and so on. Before the manned missions, China will send robots to Mars that will study possible sites to set up base and to build systems to extract resources there. Resources would be extracted to study it properly for manned mission.
For human habitation on the planet, crews will have to be able to use resources from Red Planet. For instance, they should be ready for extracting any water beneath planet's surface, generating oxygen on-site and producing electricity there. China must also develop technology to fly crew back to Earth.
How spacecraft will tap energy?
To reduce travel time to Red Planet, spacecraft would have to tap energy from nuclear reactions in the form of heat and electricity, besides from traditional chemical propellants.
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Samsung Galaxy Camera Announced – Powered by Android Jelly Bean 4.1
by Joel Fernandes 29 August, 2012 4:09 pm6
"Ladies and gentlemen, the camera is reborn." Yes, a Samsung Galaxy Camera! "We think it's a new and essential tool for the visual communication era."
Well, the crowd at Berlin went "wow" after the South Korean company unveiled the new Samsung Galaxy Camera immediately after the announcement of the Samsung Galaxy Note 2. Who said Android was only restricted to smartphones? The new Galaxy camera is powered by Android's latest Jelly Bean, and it is the world's first digital camera to feature Android 4.1
The all new Android Jelly Bean powered camera is, of course designed for Android lovers, and for those who wish to shoot, edit and share photos and videos on the go. The Samsung Galaxy Camera features a massive 4.8 inch HD clear SLCD display, with 1.4 GHz quad-core processor. The camera boasts of a 16-megapixel BSI CMOS sensor, optical image stabilization, and features a 21x zoom lens (23-483mm f/2.8-5.9 equivalent).
The interesting part is that the Galaxy Camera has in-built Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, 3G as well as 4G Connectivity. It has an 8 GB internal memory, a MicroSD card slot, which is expandable up to 32 GB memory. With a 1650mAh battery the device should get about 7 hours of battery life.
Andy Rubin, Senior Vice President of Mobile and Digital Content at Google, said:
"When we first started work on Android, we envisioned building a smart camera that would take digital photography to the next level. The Galaxy Camera is an innovative product that speaks to the openness and flexibility of the Android platform."
The Galaxy Camera runs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and also includes the standard Google Play app store. Users can simply tap on the app from the home screen and the Galaxy Camera opens up the standard Android app shelf, for easy access to photo-sharing options like Facebook or Instagram. Additionally, the Galaxy Camera is capable of sending photographs via text or email. You can almost all the features that a smartphone offers, including playing games, surf the Web, however, you cannot make any calls.
Samsung's Won-Hyoung Cho said one of prominent feature in the Galaxy Camera allows the user to create folders and tag faces easily, which other cameras do not offer. Additionally, you can save time by making use of the search tool to search through photos saved on the device by time, location, name, or face. Cho also added that the Galaxy Camera will also learn certain faces for easier tagging and creating composite shots.
The Galaxy Camera is cloud enabled. That is, your photos will also be saved to the cloud directly, while the camera can connect wirelessly to other Galaxy cameras or smartphones for easy photo sharing.
Samsung Galaxy Camera Specification Highlights:
8GB built in storage, support for microSD, microSDHC, microSDXC
4.8-inch capacitive touchscreen HD Super Clear Touch Display
16.3 megapixel BSI sensor
23mm equivalent F/2.8 lens with 21x optical zoom
ISO settings: Auto, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200
Mobile data: 3G (HSPA+ 21 Mbps) and 4G capable: 850/900/1900/2100 MHz
A-GPS, GLONASS, Bluetooth 4.0
Samsung Galaxy Camera Features:
Smart content manager
Photo wizard
Video wizard
Best group pose
Voice control option
Auto cloud backup
S Planner, S Suggest
Support for AllShare Play, Family Story, Dropbox
Pricing and availability were not revealed, however, it will be sold by wireless operators in the fourth quarter of 2012.
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Lawlor leaves Australia a star after Disabled Golf Cup win
Dundalk's Brendan Lawlor will return from Melbourne a star after making waves Down Under for the last two weeks in the name of Disabilities Golf.
Paired with Spain's Juan Postigo during this past week's Disabled Golf Cup, which ran alongside The World Cup of Golf, Lawlor looked supremely confident in helping the twosome to a 5&4 victory in their fourballs match.
It was a result that helped guide the World Team to a narrow but much deserved 3.5 to 2.5 victory over Australia in the Ryder Cup style match-up, with Lawlor understandably over the moon to be part of the winning team at the inaugural tournament.
"To be the first winners, it's crazy, words can't describe it," said the Dundalk man whose personal highlight of the day was undoubtedly holing a 60-footer for eagle at the 9th.
"The team have been fantastic, we all worked really well together. Me and Juan played really, really good the last two days. We hit the ball well, we stayed out of trouble and obviously the other boys have gone well too because they've won their points! It's been amazing."
Lawlor hit the headlines in Sydney the week before when he rubber-stamped his credentials as one of the world's best disabled golfers after finishing second at the Australian All Abilities Championship at The Lakes Golf Club.
It proved to be an unforgettable experience for the 21-year-old playing amongst some of the world's best players and although he finished 10 shots behind a most impressive winner in Sweden's Johan Kammerstad, Lawlor was plenty satisfied with his runner-up finish regardless.
"It was the best experience of my life," he gushed. "Playing in front of 5,000 people was incredible and when I put it into five feet on the last the crowd went nuts. When you shoot the same score as some of the pros you know you did okay!"
It's been an incredible two weeks, not just for Lawlor but for all-abilities golf and it is now hoped that the success of these events will see the sport introduced to the Paralympics in 2024, while it's been rumoured that a similar tournament to that of the All Abilities Championship could run alongside next year's Open Championship at Royal Portrush.
Whatever happens, Lawlor has done his country proud on the world stage and proved that in golf, no handicap is too much to overcome.


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Borders Book Festival pulls in biggest crowd to date
Friday at the Baillie Gifford Borders Book Festival. 'Credit: Alex Hewitt/Writer Pictures
A four-day extravaganza of live events attracted more than 34,000 visitors to Harmony Gardens in Melrose last week as the annual Baillie Gifford Borders Book Festival returned for its 14th year.
A guest list including top writers, stars of stage and screen, sporting heroes and political pundits helped pull in the record crowd with visitor numbers up 18% on last year.
Festival director Alistair Moffat said: "I think the reason for such amazing numbers was not only the quality of the programme, but its breadth.
"From sell-out sessions with sportsmen like David Coulthard and Gregor Townsend to natural history photographer Gordon Buchanan, TV gardener and novelist Alan Titchmarsh, comedian Susan Calman and politician Ruth Davidson, there was something for almost every taste.
"Not only does the book festival have a huge beneficial impact on the local economy, it is now the biggest cultural event of the year between Edinburgh and Newcastle and it attracts visitors from all over Britain and from abroad."
Despite the wet weather on its opening day last Thursday, sell-out crowds turned to hear snooker legend Stephen Hendry discussing the highs and lows of an incredible sporting career, Neil Oliver's passion for the history of the British Isles and wildlife expert Kate Humble on the simple act of walking and encountering life in its many unexpected forms.
For the rest of the weekend visitors enjoyed a variety of live entertainment including laughter with Alexei Sayle, Jan Ravens and Rory Bremner; music from Alexander McCall Smith's Dandie Dinmont operetta and Magpie Blue.
The world of current affairs was represented by James Naughtie, Allan Little and Dominic Grieve MP.
The Baillie Gifford Borders Book Festival will return to Melrose from 11 – 14 June, 2020. Visit: www.bordersbookfestival.org
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This is an X-ray image of the Sun taken with the Soft X-Ray Telescope (SXT) on the orbiting Yohkoh satellite. This particular image was taken on November 23, 1999.
ISAS/Yohkoh team/Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory
Fundamental Physics relevant to Space Weather
X-ray Radiation
X-rays are a high-energy type of electromagnetic (EM) radiation. X-ray radiation has a much shorter wavelength than visible light, so X-ray photons have much higher energies than photons of light.
X-rays lie between ultraviolet "light" and gamma rays on the electromagnetic spectrum. X-rays have wavelengths between about 10 nanometers (10 x 10-9 meters) and 10 picometers (10 x 10-12 meters). X-ray radiation oscillates at rates between about 30 petahertz (PHz or 1015 hertz) and 30 exahertz (EHz or 1018 hertz).
X-rays are subdivided into hard X-rays and soft X-rays. The lower energy soft X-rays have longer wavelengths, while the higher energy hard X-rays have shorter wavelengths. The cutoff between the two types of X-rays is around a wavelength of 100 picometers or an energy level around 10 keV per photon. X-rays with energies between 10 keV and a few hundred keV are considered hard X-rays.
There is no sharp distinction between the highest energy X-rays and the lowest energy gamma rays. The distinction between X-rays and gamma rays is actually based on the origin of the radiation, not on the frequency or wavelength of the electromagnetic waves. Gamma rays are produced by nuclear transitions, while X-rays are the result of accelerating electrons.
X-rays have long been used to "see" through skin and muscle tissue to make medical "X-ray images" of bones when checking for fractures. X-rays that arrive at Earth from space are absorbed by our atmosphere before reaching the ground.
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Electromagnetic radiation is the result of oscillating electric and magnetic fields. The wave of energy generated by such vibrations moves through space at the speed of light. And well it should... for...more
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The pages crackle, specks of parchment falling to the ground like snowflakes. Wrapped in a white shawl, the book open on his knees on an embroidered velvet cloth, Father Teklehaimanot turns the sheets fastidiously lest the leather ligature tear them. Inside the text is dull and faded. By contrast, the colours of the illustrations are brilliant, rich purples and blues that brighten the gloom of the monastery. On the floor lies the cloth in which the volume is usually enfolded; beside it, the pile of boxes on which it rests. This is where one of the world's most precious religious artefacts is kept, as it has been for as long as the monks can remember.
The Garima Gospels are not easy to see. These illuminated Christian manuscripts—at around 1,500 years old, perhaps the oldest of their kind in existence—belong to Abba Garima monastery, which is perched on a remote outcrop in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia. The roughly 100 monks store the two books in a circular treasure-house next to the church. Down a slope, just beyond the cloister, is a small museum, built six years ago with the help of the French government, but it is almost empty. The gospels were placed there only briefly before the monks removed them to their customary home. Visiting researchers are occasionally admitted—as The Economist was after lengthy negotiation—but tourists are rarely welcomed.


In a green and tranquil corner, in the shadow of the tower of Velia, rises the lovely villa that houses the apartment "Il Giglio". The apartment is found on the first floor, with a private internal staircase connecting it to the apartment "La Rosa". The apartment consists of a corridor at the entrance giving access to the master bedroom, the kitchen with double bed settee and bathroom with box shower. There is an attractive area outside with a BBQ where it is possible to prepare delicious meals that can be eaten in the open under the porticoed area near to the apartments.
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Watercolor of a mining operation by Mason Wells (1906 - 1984). Mason Bacheller Wells was born in Southbridge, Massachusetts, attended Harvard, Yale and San Francisco Art Institute. He was active/lived in California, Massachusetts. Mason Wells is known for geometric non objective, mod imagery. Watercolor is currently not framed. He was in Post Painterly Abstraction (a term created by art critic Clement Greenberg as the title for an exhibit he curated for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1964, which subsequently travelled to the Walker Art Center and the Art Gallery of Toronto.). His family were founders of the American Optical Company.


Held in the parking lot of PNC Bank, on the corner of Garfield Parkway and Pennsylvania Avenue, the Bethany Beach Farmer's Market began in 2007 and is currently held every Sunday between late June and early September, from 8 a.m. to noon.
Many varieties of local produce are for sale at the market from several local vendors, including Magee Farms, Lavender Fields, Ficner's Family Farm, Hudson's Produce, Davidson Exotic Mushrooms, Parsons Farm Produce, and many others.
One issue of note: Due to the crowded nature of the market, as well as a former incident, dogs are not permitted at the Bethany Beach Farmers Market at this time.


Presidential elections are taking place right now in Guatemala. The country has been in turmoil the last several days as former president Otto Perez Molina was forced to resign and stand trial for corruption earlier this week. Here's our report – featuring Allan Nairn, Sarah Blaskey, and Jeff Abbott.
The vote count is being posted, as votes are tallied, on the webpage of Guatemala's Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE).
and here is Sarah Blaskey's report for the Tico Times newspaper in Costa Rica.


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MANGERE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT
HEB Construction was awarded a $105m design and construct contract to upgrade the Mangere Wastewater Treatment Plant (MWTP) in June 2015.
The project included the construction of a biological nutrient removal (BNR) facility, which has increased the treatment capacity to serve an additional 250,000 people.
Along with our fully integrated joint venture partner McConnell Dowell, HEB constructed two reactor tanks, two clarifiers, flow splitter box, blower building, several pump stations, and interconnecting pipe work with the existing plant, including a twin 1400 dia pipeline 1.2kms long.
A new interstage pumpstation and blended sludge storage tank was constructed within the existing plant.
The JV was responsible for the design and construction of the reactor and clarifier tanks, where the JV elected to construct a post tensioned precast concrete structure.
Large precast concrete panels were cast and erected on site to form the tank walls. This has provided an economic and safer construction methodology by reducing the work at heights requirements.
There are underlying soft soils in the area, which has seen these large tanks founded on some 2400 driven piles.
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Astragalus Root - The historical use of astragalus for immune support has been backed up by studies suggesting that it may help maintain healthy white blood cell and interferon activity. Elderberry Fruit - Research highlighting a potential value in supporting immune function in influenza sufferers have made elderberry one of the most popular resistance supplements. The impressive flavonoid profile is especially worth noting in this respect. Garlic Bulb - Numerous studies have demonstrated that the sulphur compounds in garlic are active against a wide range of harmful microbes. This evidence supports the historical use of garlic in maintaining healthy resistance. Oregon Grape Root - Oregon grape root is abundant in constituents with research-proven activity against a vast array of pathogens. There is also a suggestion that this root may support convalescence after certain types of infections. Osha Root - Osha has been historically used for maintaining the health of the respiratory tract and mucous membranes. Compounds in osha also appear to possess activity against certain microbes. Osha is often reported to encourage perspiration, which also may account for some of its value in supporting resistance. Maitake Mushroom Mycelia - Beta glucans, a group of polysaccharide compounds prevalent in maitake mycelia, have been the subject of numerous studies highlighting remarkable immune supportive properties. Although this polysaccharide group is abundant in certain other species of fungi and plants, maitake beta glucans are possibly the most heavily researched to date. Directions: As a food supplement for adults, take 1 or 2 capsules daily with food. Do not exceed stated dose unless directed by a healthcare practitioner. Ingredients: two vegetarian capsules provides, MAGNIFOOD COMPLEX 750mg PROVIDING: Astragalus Root 350mg Elderberry Garlic (fresh freeze dried - organic) 125mg Oregon Grape Root 75mg Osha Root (fresh freeze dried) 25mg Maitake Mycelia (fresh freeze dried) 25mg Larch Tree Arabinogalactan 250mg Vegetarian Capsule Shell 236mg NO FILLERS, BINDERS OR OTHER EXCIPIENTS NO WHEAT - NO GLUTEN - NO CORN - NO SOY - NO YEAST - NO DAIRY - NO GELATINE - NO ANIMAL INGREDIENTS - NO ADDITIVES - NO SUGAR - NO COLOURS - NO FLAVOURS - NO PRESERVATIVES suitable for vegetarian and vegans.
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Fear is part of our autonomic nervous system and is needed for our survival. Imagine what would happen if we were not afraid of a huge elephant running towards us. There is an old Indian story/myth displaying this very idea, where after much work a man has no fear left and he doesn't move out of the way of the a huge elephant coming through the village. The villagers tell him he must run out of the way, but he says over and over "Its ok I have no fear", no need to explain what happened! So we need fear to keep us safe in the world. However, not all fears are helpful to us.
Yoga helps us to let go of fears from past wounds that may get in our way of living a life of freedom. These fears from past trauma are stored in the body, in our very cells not just in our memories. We have also been taught to fear certain things; we also have fears passed on from our ancestors. Yoga is an act of kindness on oneself, it helps us to understand ourselves more. We can start to see that many of the fears we have are imagined in our mind and are part of the story we tell about ourselves. These fears may hold us back from reaching our full infinite potential. Fear from previous experience can continue to get overlapped onto a new experience. This can keep repeating itself repeatedly our whole life until we work with it. There are other ways we can work with fears, such as Counselling; talking therapy.
Yogi's work at being unbound by anything especially fear. There are many ways in yoga we can work with this; on the mat, we may face fear, meditation, and self-inquiry. Yoga Nidra and lucid dreaming, to name a few. Over time we learn to let go of the stories we may tell ourselves; we are not good enough, not smart enough, pretty or successful enough, etc. We can examine these thoughts and ask ourselves "Is this story true" this takes courage, openness, and honesty. Tuning to the truth (Satya) is at the forefront of yoga ethics.
One of the disciplines in yoga is called Tapas, which can translate to - heat or fire, fire, fire is transformational. One of my teachers says it's fiery determination, which is needed for anything we want to succeed at in life, when you have that giving up is never an option. So, Tapas can mean doing something difficult to make your mind stronger. You can work with fear this way; it must be on an individual level we are al different. Everyone is afraid of something, big or small. Some people are afraid to talk up. Some people fear the silence of being quiet, so they can't stop talking. The person who is afraid to express themselves learns to open their voice and speak their truth. The person that has too much to say learns by the practise of silence (mouna) not to keep filling the void that may make them feel uncomfortable, they learn to let others speak and not be afraid just to listen.
It's the 20th December, writing this blog post comes to me through lucid dreaming after my second hospital appointment regarding my broken ankle.
Ten days after I broke my ankle I'm back at the fracture clinic bring assessed for what's next. As I wait, I'm aware that I have started to recreate the scene of my accident. I can feel the fear creeping in. They cut off my temporary plaster that was put on until the swelling went down. My mind is replaying the scene; it's as if my plaster is my black boot the ambulance man cut off in my house when the accident happened. In my mind, I'm aware that I'm now almost seeing my twisted, misshapen foot. They take the plaster off, and my foot looks different and is very painful and swollen but not twisted and misshapen like before. My mind is playing tricks with me. They attempt to put me in a boot, but my ankle is screaming, they give up as there is just too much pain, too much swelling. They put me in a sparkly plaster which will stay on for three weeks. Sparkly Christmas glitter plaster is on offer for one week only at I'm told! Well, that's a bonus at least it like fun!
After special X-rays to see if my bones will stay together when I stand on both feet 50/50 I return to the Trauma Doctor. He tells me my bones are healing well and I can start to slowly and lightly weight bear on my toes… "WHAT," my mind says? The fear yet again. I tell him I don't feel good about this; we chat for a while about what I must do to get strong again. When I arrive back home with new my sparkly plaster, I rest for a bit leg higher than the heart. Later, I must get up and try what the DR has told me. I know I must navigate my path without fear.
I've worked with fear a lot since becoming a yoga teacher I know it's guises well, worry, heart racing, heat coming in, the anxiety, the panic. Over the last ten years I've worked with many things I'm afraid of including the fear of death, most peoples biggest fear, yogi's seek to irradicate this. Being at the bedside watching my Mother die from lung disease nine years ago was one of the hardest things I've ever done, feeling helpless, death terrified me. One of the lighter things I have worked with was fear of headstand I was terrified of falling. Finally, one teacher suggested I use this as my Tapas to make my mind stronger she said: "When you are telling yourself you will fall, reverse it". When you are about to go up into headstand, tell yourself - "I can do this"… To my surprise, it worked! So, with the new way of gentle weight bearing on the toes of the broken ankle, I did this same thing. I stood still for some moments, breathing into the present moment and told myself there was nothing to fear and I could go it and did it. I will not say it's didn't hurt at all, but not like the imaged pain. The imagined fear was telling me it would not be possible.
Many people spend their lives fearing what people think of them. What they say, how they look. How you look seems to more important now than how you are inside. The world has become such a false place with Facebook Twitter Instagram. Yoga is a beautiful practice to help you become more self-confident to live the life you want to live, a life of more freedom. Not the life that someone else thinks you should live. Slowly like the sea changes the shape of our coastlines, yoga washes away our fears to reveal what the yogis say is our essential nature. We have only one life, and it's short. I don't want to get to the end of my life and have regrets of what I could have been or could have done.
The guru's say Practise. Practise. Practise all is coming… I keep the faith; I keep practising.
Everything we do is a choice. We can live a life of fear or courage, what will you choose?


The Dudley Safety Advisory Group has been set up to advise on safety matters, in an attempt to ensure that public safety is maintained at all events held in the Borough – however large or small. The group meets in the last week of every month.
This includes events held on the public highway. It should be borne in mind that any event on a public highway involves a significant amount of risk. If you are in any doubt about the safety of your event – do not hold it! The number one priority for event organisers must be to minimise the risk to participants' and public safety. As well as the possible danger to people taking part and other road users, you also need to think about the inconvenience you may cause for pedestrians and traffic.
As organisers you are encouraged to consult with the Safety Advisory Group, who will be able to offer you advice in planning your event. In certain circumstances we may invite you to join one of our meetings to discuss your proposals further.
We consider all event notifications and offer advice and guidance to all parties concerned in the planning and organisation of events. Our advice is in addition to any legal requirements and government guidance, which you should also refer to.
Generally the police do not support any event that takes place on the highway due to the inherent dangers to public safety. The police may however make contingency plans to deal with any potential public safety issues as a result of your event taking place, and also take any action deemed necessary on the day of the event to resolve any public order issues that occur. You also need to be aware that there may be a charge for emergency services or local authority resources, should they be required. The safety concerns and advice given by the Safety Advisory Group to event organisers will be documented. If there is an incident resulting in court/public inquiry proceedings, we have an obligation to notify to any investigating authorities the safety advice given to you about your event.
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It's TJWhale here again to talk about realism and Thrive and sort out some common misconceptions.
What do we mean when we say Realism?
What we mean is that a proposed feature is within the laws of physics and chemistry as they are currently understood. So having an object which can travel faster than the speed of light is not realistic, because that violates relativity. However for the space stage there are several cool ideas for things which don't exist now, but could exist inside the known laws of physics, such as Alcubierre drives or Wormholes which would allow FTL travel.
This means that if something exists on earth then it's fine to be in Thrive because we know it must fit inside the laws of physics and chemistry in order to exist. However just because something doesn't exist on earth doesn't mean it shouldn't be in Thrive. For example purple chloroplasts or a humanoid with six eyes are both fine because there is no principle reason why they couldn't exist.
Does this mean that anything which is realistic can be in the game?
No, it's not sufficient to say "this is realistic and therefore it should be included" because the whole point of making a game is to make it fun. Games are toys and are meant to be played with. Maybe "fun" is too small of a word, maybe the concept should encompass things like engagement, enjoyment, immersion, experiences that elicit emotion. There is no way to finish the sentence "it's not fun but …" which makes it worth adding to the game.
For example if we were to consider making a slug simulator where it took 30 minutes to slither down a garden path this would be very realistic and very boring. Reality is awesome at times and can also be nasty, boring and dull. If we were to have something like this we would want to work out how to make this a cool experience (speed up the slug or speed up time or make a lot of tiny obstacles or something).
What does this mean for the microbe stage?
One thing it means for the microbe stage is that in general it's fine to mix and match organelles between cells. For example a pilus is a structure found on Earth on bacteria so is it ok that in the game you might put it on a eukaryote? Yes, there is no physical reason why, on a hypothetical alien planet things won't evolve like that. Likewise nitrogen fixation is believed to be restricted to prokaryotes but it's not inconceivable for a eukaryote to have evolved that ability. Nitrogen fixation is being added to 0.4.0 and a nitrogen fixing plastid has been added to enable eukaryotes to fix nitrogen if they so choose.
There are some restrictions that will be imposed. For example prokaryotes won't be able to have membrane bound organelles (like mitochondria, chloroplasts and chemoplasts) because you must have a nucleus to have membrane bound organelles. Moreover there may be other restrictions we impose down the line for gameplay reasons. However in general you should be able to take any organelle (eyespot or agent gland or bioluminescent proteins) and put them on any cell because there is no principle reason to disallow this. Moreover we are adding photosynthetic proteins which can be used by prokarytoes to do photosynthesis which are not membrane bound.
To summarise realism doesn't mean "earth like" it means built with respect for the scientific laws as they are currently understood. There's plenty of crazy stuff on Earth to prove that there is a lot of room in these laws, for example the largest prokaryotes are visible to the naked eye being 0.1-0.3mm in size. In 0.4.0 prokaryotes have been added to the game and they can grow to any size. Moreover there are cells which live deep in the sediment at the bottom of the ocean for thousands or millions of years in total darkness and extreme slow motion. We are also adding a cave biome which, like Movile Cave, will be pitch black and full of hydrogen sulfide. These caves can contain a whole ecosystem based on a different energy source.
At the moment we have plenty of inspiration for organelles which exist on Earth and we may choose in the future, depending on gameplay testing, to add more which don't exist on Earth but could on an alien planet. That's what makes Thrive a xenobiology game about hypothetical life.


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Vink is een radioprogramma en  podcast van de Nederlandse omroep AVROTROS waarin podcasts worden gerecenseerd.

Vink wordt elke week in de nacht van vrijdag op zaterdag om 02:00 uur uitgezonden; de eerste aflevering was op 29 maart 2019. In Vink bespreken en beoordelen Mischa blok, Vincent Bijlo en Stan Putman (internetredacteur bij de Volkskrant) en een wekelijks andere gast Nederlandstalige podcasts; in 2021  presenteerde Milou Brand het programma omdat Mischa Blok 's-middags Toine en Blok presenteerde. Sedert 8 juni 2019 wordt Vink ook uitgezonden op NPO Radio 1. Voor de radio-uitzending schommelde de ranking in Apple Podcasts Netherlands: All Podcasts tussen 100 en 150, daarna tussen 22 en 70. In de categorie Apple Podcasts : Netherlands : Society & Culture steeg de ranking van tussen 23 en 45 naar tussen 8 en 21.

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Bonding is a process in which an enamel-like material is applied to a tooth`s surface, sculpted to an ideal shape, hardened, and then polished for an ideal smile. This procedure usually can be accomplished in a single visit.Bonding is often performed in order to fill in gaps or change the color of your teeth. It typically only entails one office visit, and the results last for several years.