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At the moment though, there's still plenty of hope for the former, not least ebcause director James Wan (Saw, The Conjuring, Insidious, Fast & Furious 7) has an impressive track record of making films that are far more entertaining that you might expect.
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PS: Run for your life Kid.
PSS: Perhaps your Mom can adopt the "inquire first, punish second" model.
PSSS: Maybe they need to sell Valium at Disney.We saw more people on edge and ready to rumble there than at a NHL title game.
Had it not been for the two vignettes at the end, I would have said, I have to wonder how the human race has managed to survive so long.
There is a manual available. It comes in a wrapper in the glove box. The problem is some people never think far enough ahead to read the damn thing.
It depresses me that so much neglect and abuse goes on IN PUBLIC. I'm assuming those parents are the product of their parents, which means those kids will someday grow up to be bad parents too.
To the Dad who took his daughter on a date - bless your heart.
I'm so telling my husband about this just in case we have a daughter some day...
Loved the last two stories. :)
Isn't it scary when you see what other parents get up to in public? Even worse to imagine what they must do behind closed doors!
I love that you found balance. Yin and Yang. I especially love that you ended with such a sweetly hopeful story. Nice.
The last story almost made me tear up a little bit...the first three were disturbing.
I can relate to the poor mom giving her toddler bubblegum. When my oldest was a toddler, a super-size bag of Jelly Bellies got us through many delays and long flights.
Some people just should not be parents...and others are definitely meant to be.
I still cringe when I'm out in public and I overhear people yelling at their children.
Then I wonder, is that what I sound like when my 8yr old asks for no less than 68 times for a lil pet shop, a toy that is for the under 5 set? Or when my son asks me no less than 86 times for another lego guy? Because he lost his in his car seat?
I guess I can't judge the yelling. I don't however, lay hands on my kids unless it's for a hug or a high-five!
Me too. I'm glad you balanced the bad with the good.
But really, some people should not be allowed to be parents.
It's so refreshing to see parents like that last one. Which is kind of sad since that should be what we usually see. Sometimes i just want to punch those other parents. Maybe they'll figure it out when their kids grow up and hate them.
That last vignette was so sweet. What a dad. *sigh*
YAY for the last two!!! Hiss, tomatoes, and thorns for the others.
Makes me wonder why the parents who need a spanking themselves can get pregnanet - but parents like Mr. Fix It and I can't? However, how lucky am I, that when I got married so long ago, I got my Chosen Child and now I get to watch Mr. Fix It show Chosen Child how a gentleman acts. I love it when they do their Saturday morning Daddy & Daughter breaksfasts, and love it even more when he takes her on a "date" night to teach her how to look for the man of her dreams........... It reaffirms what I knew so long ago!
It breaks my heart to see the way some kids are treated.
And it fills my heart to know there are wonderful parents are out there.
I'm with Menopausal New Mom, just imagine what happens when they are back at home. Poor kids.
Makes me consider becoming a foster parent.
Wish my Dad took me on a 'date' ..that sounds strange but you know what I mean :^D The only primer I had was my sweet mother telling me "keep them guessing" ...alright mom that cleared things up!
I'm still guessing at what that meant. That and the sanitary napkin belt and the hamster mattress she gave me after my sister had already told me about tampons. Hello 1940s!
p.s. it was almost the 80s!
I loved the last two stories :-)
The first two, especially the one about the man and his toddler, make me want to cry for those poor kids.
You know, I have to tell irresponsible parents things all the time for their kid's safety.
Loved the last story, it actually brought a lump to my throat...how lovely.
And you are so nice to have bought the Mom a cocktail!!
Great post JennyMac :)
I say the fellow on the phone got what he deserved! A mess of a mess to clean up! Loved the date thing. gotta' tell my son ao about that--his princess is only 5 now, but someday,.
I hope to be that last dad when my daughter's time comes around; she's 2.5 years. I have, at most, 13 years to get ready for that. Whiskey first, then start planning now. I guess that means I'll need to work on the whole "Son, this is how you treat a lady" deal for when my son gets there, too. He's only 4 months, so I have a bit longer to get ready for that; or less if he's anything like me. Shit; I should be worried, shouldn't I?
Disney mom...HOW CRAZY! Yikes! Love the good ones...that dad made me tear up.
Love the two stories at the end. Nice to know some parents are trying the best they know how---and mostly succeeding:)
Very well said. Love the story about the daddy/daughter date. I wish more fathers knew how to raise daughters who expect to be treated well by men.
A five hour delay??? With that and the arrival time you could have driven home!! But wouldn't have these stories to ponder!
Wow - some unbelievably sad stories to start it out (gah, i feel for those kids) and then an incredibly sweet father/daughter story to finish it up. Kudos to that dad for sure... i wish every dad were that good.
Loved this post & the Dad with his daughter out on a date made me a bit misty.
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that was the funniest (seriously parents?!!?) and SWEETEST (daddy/daughter date) post I have read in some time......
I MUST become more observant! ha
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There is lots of bad apples out there.
You should come over to one of my son's minor hockey games. I would fire 90% of those hockey parents.
How sweet is the dad/daughter story? She really is a lucky girl.
The dad/daughter date thing - so sweet. Props to him, more girls need their dads more than ever these days.
'You're fired" to some of those other parents, a little too nice, don't ya think? :)
Well written. After reading the first part, I was ready to comment with my share of observed bad parenting, but after reading the last two stories, I decided to take notes instead,
Doesn't it make you wonder how some people become parents. Of course, this morning, me standing in the driveway screaming at my kids because we were late to school and it takes them 20 minutes to walk from the door of the house to the car 5 feet away...ps. run for you lives kids.
Agree with Laura - I love the last part about Dad & daughter. So sweet. As an optimist, I have to believe that most people want to be good parents, but they mess up from time to time. Hopefully mess ups that we witness from afar are not representative of every single interaction between parent and child. -Diane
The crazy thing...most of this parenting stuff is common sense. Right? I see idiotic parents all the time and it just makes me understand why there are so many bad kids running a muck. If you do your job at the beginning (I had no role models really, and even I could figure it out) then you will have good kids...turning into good people.
ps. My girls are both lucky too, they have a good dad. (and an awesome Mom) :)
Great post JennyMac!
Having been at Disney REAL recently...I think selling Valium to parents is a great idea! That poor kid....
The daddy/daughter date thing was so awesome...he deserves a big fat promotion!!!
To the dog owner at the park, who was too busy feeding the ducks to notice my dog and me coming into the park. Who got incensed when your Dobermann tried to come toward us and jerked your bread-holding arm--something you would have been able to stop if you'd had half an eye on your dog. Something for which you then spent several minutes smacking and yelling at your dog: you're fired.
Spend some time and attention on your dog, and maybe he'll do the same to you. Poor dumb beast.
(I have no kids, but people with no patience for dogs couldn't possibly handle toddlers...or teens. Even I know that. At least kids get old enough to move out.)
Awww....the good and bad are out there! For sure!
My daddy and I still go on "dates" every now and then!!! :) I love them... :)
I agree--loved the way you ended this post!
The image of a toddler rolling in a mud bog also made me laugh a little ;). Payback!
I was thinking about this same type of thing last week when I was at walmart. I was in the parking lot and Mrs. Very Expensive SUV (just so you know it wasn't like some trashy walmart person, hey our walmart is upscale!) screaming at her child (who looked maybe ten?) in her car across the lot. Her windows were up and I was buckling the Chick into her seat and I could hear every. single. word. And I thought to myself then (and for the rest of the week) what in the heck could that child EVER have done to deserve to be yelled at like that? The answer is nothing and that made me very, very sad indeed.
Some parents. I'm hardly qualified to comment, being nineteen and childless, and I know there is no exact right way to do things. But there are definitely some wrong ways.
Where do you live that you witness such parenting douchery?! Holy crap...
That last bit about the dad and daughter made me smile. My dad did those kind of things with me. My favorite memories of my crazy teenage years were those nights with him. And even better, now I have a man who is already doing the same thing with our 8 year old daughter.
Some people should not be allowed to procreate! Thank goodness for the two at the end!
Those are horrible! I cannot stand it when I see parents screaming at their children- especially for things like were mentioned. The last two stories completely reaffirmed my faith that there are plenty of good parents out there.
I love that the dad announced that his wife tried to get him to take the diaper bag. Justice. LOL.
Looks like you got to see both sides of humanity. I hope those first couple of kiddos have someone more loving in their lives.
I miss my father...I am going to go cry now.
The last paragraph made up for all the crappy parents above. It brought tears to my eyes..
Too bad the other kids don't have the same opportunities
No way! You can not be serious. Why do we not require some sort of test to be passed before certain people reproduce? Why?
There really are some good ones out there...there's just some questionable ones sprinkled in between.
My kids do have that kind of dad. My only worry is that my daughters will naively believe that every guy is as kind and wonderful as their dad.
My sons, however, have a GREAT visual of "What Not to Wed." Ha! I kid. Except for that one week out of four...
And I've gotten pretty good at calling abusive parents on the carpet in my old age. "That looks a lot like assault, lady" works wonders.
In response to what your 2nd or 3rd commenter said, if that much is going on IN PUBLIC, think of what happens in the privacy of homes!
Thank goodness you ended it the way you did...I was getting severely depressed. Geesh. What's with these people? Hooray for that Dad!
The only time I most likely will see my little crumb's papa with a fist is the moment he meets her first date (in 17 years from now)and takes him over to the corner and shares a bit of a warning with the young lad!
The dad and daughter date....so cute!
Ok, the first few pissed me off. They should have their "parent licenses" revoked. Sorry...that's how I judge.
The last two made me cry. I have been the mom who bribed her kids with otherwise mostly off-limit treats to ensure that they remained ladylike (although not at an airport because I no longer fly!). I also wish that ALL dads in the world could be as thoughtful and caring as the last dad you mentioned. Children learn by example and behaviors that are treated as "normal" usually stay that way. It's great to see the parents who make it POSITIVE!!! He should get an award!!!
Great post!!
I LOVE the dad/date story. What a wonderful man. DH did something similar with Cait when she was 15 or so. And he loves to have long "conversations" with her boyfriend! At least he didn't take our friend up on his offer to lend us rifles that he could clean when they came to pick her up for dates! Kathy
There may not be Vallium vendors at Disneyland but as a former Cast Member and dispenser of alcohol at Disney's California Adventure, I know for a fact what a blessing a glass of booze can be to the adultkind...Makes children sweeter and lines shorter.
Unfortunately, having working reproductive glands doesn't automatically qualify folks to be parents.
And I too, hate to think what goes on in private.
I'm glad you mixed in the good with the bad (well, horrible) unlike my recent rant!
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i had just about lost all hope in parents until that last one.....seriously so sweet...i'm making my husband do that in 15 years to our little one...so so sweet.
Awww.....I love that story about the girl and her dad. So cute! My dad had a tradition in our house that we all had to take a father daughter trip before we started high school. We were horrified at the time, but in retrospect it was really cute.
What a wonderful post. I just loved every word. Sometimes when I take Kaish to the park I leave my phone home on purpose. I don't need to get every message every moment. Sometimes the most important moments are the ones when they know they are the most important things in our whole world : )
This from a mommy who makes a zillion mistakes a day!
Aw, great post, JennyMac!!! This reminded me of my dad - the last dad, not the first one.
There are some really horrid people/parents out there. Luckily, I've got good ones in my life on both accounts.
You should be in charge of EVERYTHING! You are right on about the parents who should be fired. If I ever see a parent spanking a child in public, I'll probably make the news.
How sweet those last two stories are... Awwwww!
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Awesome! I especially like having the... good parents at the end. I go away able to sleep tonight, secure in the thought that the whole world isn't going to sh*t.
It's not, right?
I try so hard not to be critical of other parents because there are days that people must think I am absolutely insane for speaking to my kids like they're 30. But it's so much harder to watch someone be CRUEL to a child. I'm grateful for the end of your post. It's a sunny spot in such a dreary landscape. I think everyone should have to apply and be approved to get pregnant. I really do.
OK..There are so many parents out there that make me want to spank them right back or curse back at them after cussing their own toddler out..But the moments like that dad, or the mom's trying to keep from going insane..all the while telling their little one's "your being so good!"(even though theyre running like crazy's)few and far between but Cheers to all you parents who do what you can to stay hired and not FIRED!
You see all kinds. People who have kids for the sake of having kids, and people who truly enjoy parenthood.
I am not a parent and I can only imagine how hard it is. That's why I can also only imagine that parenthood would be easier with a smile and not a balled up fist.
Loved the dad taking his daughter out. So sweet!
Thanks for the post once again!
Thank you for your observations, both the good and the bad. It is interesting to people watch. And I love to watch, smile at, and talk to children in public.
My heart breaks for so many little ones out there...why have kids if you're going to treat them like pets???
Your perspective of things is brilliant. A lot of parents don't have a clue. Some of it is the revolving door effect. They were raised that way, so it's all they know. Their parenting skills were handed down to them.
I took my daughter out on a special date for her 16th birthday. Just the two of us. Dinner at a real nice "get all dressed up" type restaurant, and a special gift from me to her that she will keep forever......I hope.
I'm not a perfect parent, but at least I "get it".
The dad on the cell phone has probably learned his lesson.
The story about the dad in the restaurant was priceless. What a great way for a parent to teach their child how they should be treated by a bf/gf.
Great stories.
Ah yes asshat parents..
why is it illegal to taser and sterilize them?
Hopefully the alien insect overlords who are on their way to enslave us, will frown upon the twats from the shallow end of the gene pool who terrorize their children.
It is not a right to have children it is a privilege and at some point somebody needs to cull the herd and pay attention to long term effects of letting asshats have kids.
I'm all for reinstituting Darwinian measures or at the very least, only allowing families like the Andersons on Father Knows Best to share my planet. Life is just too freakin short to put up with those other f*&#% morons.
I thought of how I witnessed a dad dragging his little girl as he tried to steal a shopping cart full of items from Walmart as his little girl cried, "No Daddy, No!!!"
He shoved the customer service girl and the get away car almost ran over another employee.
What a fine example to show your small, innocent child.
But, I do love that you also gave examples of parents that go beyond the call of duty to let their child know how valued they are. That's special.
I'm crying - for all of the kids who learn such horrible lessons, and then grow up thinking that's how its done, and so the cycle repeats, and then for all of the good guys, like the parents in your last 2 stories, whose kids grow up with a whole different thinking. Great post JennyMac!
Wow, you know how to get me riled up first thing in the morning. I have a hot button for those who pick on the smaller, younger, weaker, those-with-no-voice crowd. Once you've witnessed repeated child abuse at a time in history when domestic problems were easily overlooked by the law, you carry a perpetual sword and shield with you. It's impossible for me not to be judgmental of these folks.
On the other hand, the last two - especially the dad - warmed my heart. Thanks for ending on a hopeful note!
Keep on sharing what you see, Jenny Mac. You have a wonderful way with words (alliterative, no?)
Thanks for your kind words on my post about Scotty!
Don't you wish you could fire some parents before they procreate?
My heart was breaking during this post because I feel like a horrible mother a lot of the time (I posted earlier this week about an episode in public, ugh). Of course, these are some extreme circumstances here and I'm not like that...but still.
I loved the Dad on the date with his daughter. SO sweet!
The Dad-daughter date story got me a little misty. Redemption for the others, on some universal level?
Being a divorced father of two, I can honestly say that I was fired by my ex. It hurt, but made me a bit smarter and more aware of what I NEED to be doing. Now I have the same goals as your story for my newly seveteen year old daughter. I hope I can pull it off so she doesn't end up dating guys like me. Thanks for the story, it was spot on!
Wow... I love the last story! What a sweet thing to do for your daughter.
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text: Nanik Wenten Faculty, School of Music World Music Performance: Indonesian Music and Dance Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Phone: 661-255-1050 x2549 Fax: 661-255-0938 Room: A114 Nanik Wenten is one of Java's most distinguished dancers, choreographers and dance teachers. She was born in Yogyakarta, Java, coming from a long line of great musicians and dancers. She began her training in Javanese dance as a young girl at the Pakualaman court, and also at the Kepatihan, a prime minister's residence in Yogyakarta. In addition to mastering the dance traditions of her native Java, she also took on learning the dances of the neighboring island of Bali. Nanik's formal training was from the National Dance Academy in Yogyakarta. She also holds a master's degree in dance from CalArts, where she currently teaches Javanese and Balinese dance in the School of Music. Through her long term involvement and exposure to ballet, modern and contemporary dance in America, Nanik has choreographed a unique fusion of Indonesian dances and Western dance elements. She has collaborated with artists including Morton Subotnick (composer), Ed Emshwiller (video artist), Larry Reed (film maker and puppet master) and Marion Scott (choreographer), among others. Nanik has given lecture demonstrations, workshops and performances in Asia, Europe, and North and South America.


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Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK 2.0.0 supports Python 3
Published date: October 03, 2016
The Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK now supports Python 3. The SDK previously supported Python 2.7, but support now includes Python 3.3, Python 3.4, and Python 3.5 along with it.
The new Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK 2.0.0 also includes a few more upgrades. Connection pooling is now built in, so calls to the same host are added to the same session. This saves the cost of creating a new connection for each request. We also added a few enhancements to database consistency level support. And we added TOP and ORDER BY support for cross-partition queries, so you can retrieve the top results from multiple partitions and order those results based on the property that you specify.
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SHIVA – Nataraja bracelet: Bracelet of 8mm beads of Agate, Zircon and Silver, Stretch bracelet
(Please Note: The bracelet is Handmade! The Design and the creation of the bracelet is exclusively done by DeMar).
SHIVA - Nataraja bracelet.
Quality beads were used to create an elegant, beautiful, radiant and unique bracelet of 8mm beads that reflect and represent Shiva's Nataraja cosmic dance of fire.
The "Shiva – Nataraja bracelet" combines the power of the triple-gemstones: namely, the one of Agate, Zircon and Silver.
The entire bracelet consists of 8mm beads and is handmade.
The Nataraja bracelet is designed, through the colours and the beads, to reflect the attributes of divine strength, power, love and devotion; qualities of Nataraja, "the lord of dance".
SHIVA – Nataraja, "the lord of dance":
First, it is seen as the image of his rhythmic play which is the source of all movement within the universe. This is represented by the circular or elliptical frame surrounding Shiva (focusing on the Root Chakra).
Secondly, the purpose of his dance is to release the souls of all men from the snare of illusion (focusing on the Third-Eye and the Crown Chakra).
Lastly, the place of the dance, Chidambaram, which is portrayed as the center of the universe, is actually within the heart (aka it focuses on the Heart Chakra).
Nataraja, symbolizes "the connection between religion and the arts", and it represents Shiva as the lord of dance, encompassing all "creation, destruction and all things in between". The Nataraja incorporates the elements of a fearless celebration of the joys of dance while being surrounded by fire, untouched by forces of ignorance and evil, signifying a spirituality that transcends all duality.
The "Shiva – Nataraja bracelet": for the ones with a spirituality that transcends all duality.
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Agate: Meanings, Properties and Powers Agate Properties Agate stones are banded in stripes or layers and part of the Chalcedony family. It's the most popular and most varied Chalcedony. Some varieties of Agate have specks of color or eye markings, while some also have fossilized or solid inclusions. It displays a wide range of colors, including black, yellow, pink, red, gray, white, and brown. Some Agates have created their own identities and are easily recognizable from the lot because of their unique colors and patterns, like the Botswana Agate, Fire Agate, Dendritic Agate, Moss Agate, and Blue Lace Agate. Agate forms in all mineral environments, but it's most commonly found in igneous rocks. Agate's name is derived from the place where it was first found, which is in the Achates River in Sicily. It's such a popular and in demand stone, but thankfully, it can be found all over the world! Why Would You Use Agate? Turritella Agate has a strengthening and stabilizing energy that will help you in your daily tasks. It will help you balance your energies and direct them appropriately. The energies of Agate will calm, elevate, and uplift you. Even if you're having a very busy and crazy day, you will still be able to relax and find peace and solitude. Agate will also make sure that positive energies flow through you non-stop. It will keep you energized and empowered. It will keep you feeling positive and uplifted. Negative energies will be dispelled, and you will be protected from any kind of negative attack on your body, heart, mind, and spirit. Agate will work as a source of support and encouragement, especially when it comes to work and career. The energies of Agate will keep you inspired, motivated, creative, and productive. It's a stone that will also fill your life with joy, gladness, and optimism. Whenever you feel low and uninspired, Agate will infuse you with happy and fun energies to make you feel better. This stone will stimulate your mind and emphasize all your wonderful traits. It will encourage you to make use of your talents and gifts to change your life for the better. Agate will show you that the possibilities are endless, and you can go follow the path that best resonates with you! It will encourage you to do some self-examination just to know where you are in your life and how you feel about it as a whole. This stone will curb your desire to accomplish many things all at once, even the things that you don't need to do. It will help you better manage your time so that you will not feel overwhelmed. Montana Agate is a good grounding stone that will help you center, stabilize, and direct your energies. How Will Agate Help You? Agate, Healing and Health Agate is a helpful stone during pregnancy because it can help new moms avoid having the baby blues right after giving birth. The energies of this stone can also increase lactation. When used as an elixir, Agate can stimulate the digestive system and relieve digestive pains, such as gastritis. It can be beneficial to the intestines and the stomach. It's known to be good for the eyes and healing to the skin. It can help in the treatment of skin-related illnesses and irritations. Wearing Agate close to your heart can improve the functions of the heart and the lungs. It's helpful to the blood vessels, and it can strengthen your cardiac muscles as well. Agate and Wealth Agate is a stone that can bring abundance and fullness in all aspects of your life, particularly your financial life. When you work with the energies of this stone, you will feel enriched and empowered to achieve all your financial goals. This stone will strengthen your sense of reality and encourage pragmatic thinking. This will be very beneficial when it comes to decision making, especially if you're working on a budget. The energies of this stone will also prompt you to think on your feet and take the necessary action with wisdom and authority. It will guide you in making the best decisions without putting your finances in a precarious situation. Agate will attract a lot of positive energies that will keep you excited and enthusiastic about your financial ventures! Agate, Love and Relationships Agate has a soothing and positive effect on your emotions. When you work with Agate's energies, the pain will not hurt as much, and the anger will not burn as hot. It will help you maintain a positive attitude even if you are going through something difficult in your relationship. It will support your beliefs that all the challenges that you are going through are temporary. It will give you the reassurance that what does not kill you will only make you stronger. Whatever challenges you are experiencing will only strengthen your relationship. Agate will promote stability in your relationship and remove the emotional disharmony. It will allow you to talk about the things that are making you unhappy. It will give you the opportunity to right your wrongs and give your relationship another shot. You will also become more secure about yourself and deal with the unexpected with confidence. Agate will help you overcome negativity and let go of the bitterness in your heart. It will help you focus on all the blessings that you have and just be grateful for them! This stone will show you how you can let go of your anger, expand the love in your heart, and gather the courage to make a new beginning. It will inspire you to fill your life with only good and wonderful things. Agate will show you how to maintain your composure and keep a level head even when you're experiencing problems in your romantic life. There's no avoiding these struggles, but always remember that you decide how you're going to handle these struggles. Agate symbolizes emotional endurance. This stone will encourage you to weather the storm together and believe in the promise that you made to one another. Every relationship experiences problems and challenges. With the help of this stone, you will be able to surpass all your trials and become better people for it! Agate will promote maturity in your decisions. It will remind you that being in a relationship with someone means being responsible for their happiness as well Crazy Lace Agate will promote fidelity in your marriage and trust in your relationship. It will strengthen your bonds, and it will increase the love that you feel for each other. This stone will also remove feelings of envy or jealousy. Instead, it will give you fearlessness and emotional strength. It's a stone of strength. You can always rely on the vibrations of this stone to give you that much-needed push and that last bit of effort. Agate will remind you of your own strength, and it will encourage you to speak your own truth. It will show you how you can forgive yourself for your shortcomings, and how you can learn to accept that there's no perfect lover or relationship. Agate will direct your focus on the things that truly matter. It will remove the distractions from your life so that you can better focus on what you want. The energies of Agate will soothe and calm you. It will clear your mind and unload what's in your heart. Agate will also help you accept the fact that you will not get your way every single time. It will not always work out the way you planned but being happy and glad despite the circumstances is what will make the difference! How to Use Agate for the Best Results? Agate is cut into cabochons, small sculptures, beads, and other practical items such as bookends and paper weights. It's also a popular stone to make into jewelry because of their beauty and metaphysical properties. Having it close to your body will activate all your chakras and unlock a whole bunch of healing benefits! It's a very protective stone that can ward off any kind of harm or negative energy. Keep it inside your purse or slip it in your pocket whenever and wherever; or, even better, wear the Shiva Transcendence bracelet created by the Shiva-Team. |
Whereas gold is the metal of the sun, silver is the metal of the moon. Like the moon and water, silver is reflective and used to mirror the soul bringing people calm and balance. Silver is used to 'draw down the moon' during lunar ceremonies, giving the wearer use of the moons energy and protecting them from negativity. Silver's connection to the spiritual life is mostly seen in traditional cultures where people live in union and deep respect for the earth. For example, the Tibetans spiritual silver jewelry is often combined with gemstones and crystals which then resonate their healing vibrations more strongly. Another aspect of the silver natural healing belief is that wearing this jewelry brings the wearer more in tune with the vibrations and flow of the universe. It is the metal of emotions, love and healing. Silver's properties are strongest during the new and full moon. Silver Metaphysical Properties and Silver Mystical Properties
Silver in Healing Wearing silver jewelry is said to help heal and calm the mind, to help clear the lungs and throat, to increase circulation and purify the blood, to balance hormones and to slow the progression of degenerative brain diseases. Just wearing silver is said to help draw negative energy from the body to make way for positive energy. Any stone used for healing will benefit from being set into silver. Silver is a great conductor of energy, including magic. Any stone set in silver will be amplified and its energy more easily directed. |
Zircon Crystals and Stones... Bring Balance, Spiritual Grounding and Healing Zircon crystals or stones have an intense energy that is highly spiritual. They will help you to love yourself and others, and to recognize the spiritual aspects of yourself. It will bring the spiritual energy down from the higher transpersonal chakras via the crown chakra, then move it to all of the lower chakras. If you have problems that are causing you serious issues, and you need to take yourself out of the situation, meaning to distance your opinions and take guidance from spirit, they will help you. It will ground this energy at the base chakra, then take the energy down to the earth star chakra and Mother Gaia. While it is a spiritual stone, it is also a strong stone for grounding you. These stones have beneficial metaphysical properties, that will work within all of the chakras to stimulate the movement of sluggish energy. They help you to be more organized and to act more effectively to do what you need to do to achieve your aims. Where Is It From? Zircon Meaning Zircons are some of the oldest stones that have been used on the planet, and the meaning of their name dates back to an ancient Persian word. This name became part of the Germanic languages, and then was anglicized to the English word Zircon. The finest and best deposits of Zircon stones come from Madagascar and Canada, but it has also been found in Sri Lanka, Ukraine, Australia, Canada and the USA. The color of Zircon Crystals varies and may be red, orange, yellow, green and brown, but many of these have been heat treated to get these colors. The most common untreated stones are brownish red to brownish yellow. The most beautiful and precious gem quality stones are commonly heat treated. This is to create lovely brilliant stones with an intense fiery brilliance. These are often yellow, green, blue or may be colorless. Why Would You Use It? Zircon crystals embody a strong healing energy and have an effective spiritual grounding vibration. They are known as a 'stone of virtue' as they help to balance the virtuous aspects within you. These crystals are both common and uncommon at the same time. While they really are quite common stones, not all crystal shops carry them. This is because the stones that are really beautiful are snapped up for the jewelry trade, while the rest may be overlooked, as many do not have the look that some people associate with a beautiful crystal. They are chakra stones for all of the chakras, but they have a stronger effect within some specific chakras. Once you use Zircon crystals of any grade, you will appreciate their strong spiritual aspect. Heat treating makes it hard to ascertain the actual original color of the stone, but should not effect its metaphysical qualities. After all stones are naturally heated in the earth over the millions of years it takes for them to form. Any color of Zircon Crystals may potentially have an effect on your intuitive abilities as well as aiding you to develop stronger psychic abilities. They may both help you to develop your intuition, as well as stimulate your current level of intuition to increase. The chakras that they affect the most may depend to some degree on the color of the actual stones, and whether they have been heat treated. How To Use It This is an excellent stone to stimulate your strength of purpose, so it is a beneficial stone to use when doing a daily meditation with crystals. This may be especially helpful if you desire to achieve a specific purpose from your meditation. Using them may also help you to develop your intuitive abilities more fully. Their vibration also provides spiritual protection, so this is another reason why you might choose to meditate with them. These stones are known to help you to bring your visions into reality. To help you to discover your specific psychic communication ability more quickly, you may like to use your Zircon crystals in meditation, as this may to aid the process. They have a strong spiritual grounding energy so they will help you if you are prone to coming out of meditation feeling spacy or unbalanced. They are known as a stone of balance, and this refers to both physical, emotional and spiritual balance. The strong spiritual energy of these crystals will help you to love yourself and others. They will help your way of thinking to become purer, and more in line with heart felt compassionate feelings. This may be because they stimulate the thymus or higher heart chakra. Zircon Crystals will assist you to manifest abundance and prosperity. This may be particularly strong if the stones you have contain golden or yellow colors within them. It is the power of your intentions that is involved when you do this, so you may choose to use any color of Zircon stones to aid you to manifest money. This vibration is particularly strong within the solar plexus chakra, where many of the yellow stones have a very strong energy. Who Should Use It? Use In Body Layouts You may use them at any of the chakras from the throat chakra up to enhance you ability to make contact with beings in higher dimensions. It is known to help to combine the energies of the heart chakra, base and solar plexus chakra to create a more intense vibration within them. It will enhance your thinking if used within the crown or third eye chakra. As it clears blockages of sluggish energy, it will help to connect your higher spiritual aspects with Mother Gaia. These are excellent stones for crystal healers to use in body layouts, as they will activate specific points in the etheric body and the chakra system. Using them in a body layout is very effective to get sluggish energy moving again. To specifically use them for a body layout you will need ten Zircon stones, one for each main body chakra and one to place at the earth star and soul star chakras. If you do not have ten stones, use them with other crystals and choose the area you feel you most need to help to place these stones. Zircon Crystals will ground you, taking energy down through the base or root chakra via the earth star chakra which will help to dissipate any excess of negative energy from within any chakra. How Will It Help You? They are strong stones to aid your spirituality and health, as they help to clear blocked and disharmonious energies from the physical body, that may be stopping you from moving spiritually to a higher level. Use Zircon Crystals at the third eye to aid you to both find a solution more quickly and to help you to find a solution in alignment with what spirit feels you require. Zircon of any color will have a positive effect both at this chakra and in all other chakras. These crystals are helpful to aid you to overcome prejudice of any type. This includes racism and other types of discrimination that separates you from any segment of the community, including homophobia. Wearing Zircons Zircons are on the birthstone list by month as they are a September birthstone, if you are able to get a piece of Zircon jewelry, these are often extremely beautiful stones. Jewelry made from Zircon gemstones will be powerful pieces to wear. As they are a Virgo as well as a Leo and Sagittarius birthstone, they may be sold made into lovely Zircon birthstone jewelry. Zircon crystals can be worn anywhere on the body, as this stone effects the chakras of the entire body. They are also on the zodiac birthstones list, and even though some are heat treated they still have a powerful energy to aid you to move forward spiritually. These stones are known to provide a shield of light around the body as protection from negative spiritual energy. Because of their strong spiritual protection energy, this makes them an excellent stone to wear on the body. Stimulates Sluggish Energy To Move They are known to aid muscle problems and dizziness, help increase bone stability and assist with the healing of broken bones. They are spiritual stones that have a strong grounding action and is powerful because it works within all of the chakras. They stimulate sluggish energy to move down from the higher chakras to the earth for grounding, clearing and energizing as it goes. This may have a dynamic effect on your health. They may help you to let go of feelings of depression and anxiety and feel happier within yourself. Do not confuse them with Cubic Zirconia's, man-made stones with no healing attributes. |
The Power of Colors: Purple: Wisdom, influence, spiritual power, contact with spirits, drive away evil, change luck, independence, government, break habit. Psychic ability, wisdom, divination, remove curses, healing, psychic work, business success, to influence people in power. Powerful color with the energies that can be difficult to manage. It can be used to apply incited others to tyranny, abuse of power, idealism and influence people who have power over you. Great for inviting sadness and resentment in others. Jupiter rules the purple. The purple crown chakra governs. Green: Prosperity, abundance, money, physical & emotional healing, growth, luck, marriage, tree/plant magick, acceptance, weather, counteract envy/greed/jealousy. Money, fertility, wealth, material gain, health, healing, communication with the spirits of nature, anti-inflammatory. Venus is green - love. Making love (fond, red is for lust and sex), fidelity, reconciliation, beauty, youth, friendship, attraction, harmony, financial gain, increase the gain, social functions, possessions, wealth, indulgence, pleasure. Great for the beginning and growth. Venus is the master at Green - abundance, fertility, success, happiness in general, harmony, immortality, generosity, material gain, renewal, marriage, balancing and healing. Green can also be used to incite jealousy, greed, suspicion, resentment, illness, disorder, disharmony when applied to others and direct. Green is the color of the heart chakra. Silver: Feminine divinity, stability, psychic awareness, intuition, dreams, victory, meditation, communication, moon magick, gambling luck. Develops psychic abilities to neutralize the situation, repels destructive forces, working with the powers of goddesses. The Moon rules silver. House and the immediate vicinity, imagination, memory, mental awareness / dreams, spirituality, meditation. For psychological purposes, meditative / hypnotic. The Moon rules silver. Silver rules the third eye. |


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The Philippines has one of the largest numbers of mobile users in the world and it is also home to prepaid subscribers. Apart from sending SMS and making phone calls, prepaid load is also used to access the internet. Millions of Philippine subscribers use their mobile phones to access websites, including dating sites and apps. Different packages are offered by telcos in the Philippines, which make it slightly cheaper to use the net for a considerable period, i.e. one day, two days, or even a week. Some of these packages allow unlimited access to the internet, specifically certain popular apps such as Viber, Line, Facebook, Instagram, etc. Today, people overseas can send load to the Philippines with a simple click of a button.
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Being able to keep in touch with a loved one is an invaluable gift to anyone. Not only will it provide convenience to your girlfriend, sibling, or spouse, but it also shows a great deal of initiative and thoughtfulness that is becoming a rarity these days. While you cannot send fresh flowers on a daily basis, you can certainly send load any time without any hassle. You loved ones can keep in touch with you without any added cost to them. Sending load to the Philippines is now made easy, cost effective, and practical.


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That is a roasted goose leg sitting atop the beans up there... the Hungarian Jewish all purpose stand in for pork. Solet is one dish that crossed over from Jewish cooking into Hungarian cusine, although most Hungarians know solet as something eaten with smoked pork, which is also delicious, but as you may well have guessed, it is as unkosher as it comes. Kadar isn't kosher, the orthodox in the nabe avoid it, but it used to serve comfort food to the old Jewish communist functionaries who maintained a home in the old Ghetto district, and eventually became a magnet lunch joint for actors and theater directors. Another standard here is the beet salad - seen in the photo above - topped with home made grated horseradish which will blow the back of your head off.
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NewSouth Books, October 2019. 192 pages, paperback, illustrations
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Feeding the Birds at Your Table is designed to provide detailed, comprehensive advice and suggestions for people wishing to feed wild birds in Australia from their own backyards and balconies.
Millions of Australians feed wild birds in their gardens. Yet there is currently little information or advice on offer to tell them how to do this properly. This book provides the first readily available source of reliable information relevant to Australia. What's more, it is written by an expert who feeds birds himself.
Including profiles on different types of Australian urban birds, what to feed them and the types of feeders to use, it also has advice on how to create a bird-friendly garden. Feeding the Birds at Your Table offers sensible and practical suggestions so feeding doesn't only benefit us, but benefits the birds themselves.
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Thomas Deacon Academy is one of the few state schools to have a Combined Cadet Force, a Ministry of Defence sponsored youth organisation which provides opportunities for young people to develop leadership, responsibility, self-reliance, resourcefulness and endurance. Our values are centred around Respect, Integrity, Service and Excellence.
Former Prime Minister, David Cameron, said:
"Cadet Forces teach our young people vital skills such as teamwork and discipline. They provide them with huge opportunities, open up new horizons and new possibilities. That's why I want to see more of these in our schools so that we can give young people, no matter what their background, the skills to succeed."
The Thomas Deacon Academy CCF has two sections - an Army Section and an RAF section – both of which offer opportunities to develop an individual's skills through activities not readily available under the Academy's extensive enrichment programme, such as:
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In addition to the Combined Cadet Force, Thomas Deacon Academy is also the venue for the Peterborough Volunteer Police Cadets (VPC) which forms part of the The National VPC, an agreed, overarching framework under which police forces across the UK operate Volunteer Police Cadet schemes. The opportunities available in all three cadet sections will enhance the learning, aspirations and experience of our students.
Cadet activities can support and enhance a student's involvement in the Duke of Edinburgh Awards Scheme through the service, skills and physical sections of the Awards. Participation can lead to nationally recognised qualifications such as the BTEC Diploma in Public Services and the Institute of Leadership and Management Level 2 Award in Leadership and Team Skills (CVQO), both of which instil valuable skills for the cadets to take on to University and their future careers. |
Flying scholarships are available through the RAF Section with the aim of each cadet achieving a solo flight by the end of their course. Specialist training follows the same structure as that for the National Private Pilots Licence (NPPL). |
Cadets from all Sections will get the opportunity to attend camps at training centres and working RAF bases around the UK, with the RAF offering specialist Leadership courses and overseas camps to Gibraltar, Germany and Cyprus in 2017. These will test the skills and knowledge the cadets have learnt throughout the year as they compete with cadets from other schools around the country. |
WHAT HAVE I GAINED THROUGH MY TIME WITH CADETS? A word from our Cadets:..........
"By doing cadets I'm now starting my training in January as a regular soldier in the Parachute Regiment" – L/Cpl Matthew Baldwin
"Cadets has set me up to join up after 6th Form and has given me life skills for the future" – L/Cpl Jake Reed
"I have gained qualifications that I wouldn't have normally, these have made me a more rounded person and have given me experiences I would not have got otherwise which has prepared me for management roles and a future in leadership. Flying Scholarships help with hours towards a pilots' license, which is something that very few young people have." – Cpl Harry
"Cadets has not only improved my confidence but it has made me an effective leader." – Cpl Alex Smith
See our Combined Cadet Force in Action!
The following video was created by one of our talented ex-Sixth Formers, Theodor King, who is now studying for a B.A in Industrial Design and Technology at Loughborough University.
Level 3 CVQO Leadership and Team Skills
Former student, William Wren, successfully completed the Level 3 CVQO Leadership and Team Skills qualification in 2016. Billy attended a week long residential where he completed a range of practical and theory tasks to demonstrate his competence in leading a team. With aspirations to be a RAF Weapons Systems Operator, Billy is confident that the experience and knowledge gained in completing this qualification will support his career aspirations.
Drill and Ceremonial Camp, RAF Cranwell
RAF cadets attended the drill and ceremonial camp ay Cranwell to hone their drill and instruction skills. All cadets had to learn weapons drill as performed by Queen's Colour Squadron to participate in the final parade in front of a vast array of high ranking RAF dignitaries to celebrated the 75th Anniversary of the RAF Air Cadets.


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We do all of our own laser cutting, from the pattern drafting to the making the computer and vector file talk to the laser, to watching it cut (Must mind it through the whole process. Fire = bad!) to washing and cleaning the edges and sewing the center seam - every step from start to finish. This is not farmed out to some anonymous laser shop. Our shared laser cutter is located just a block from our screenprinting workshop in Detroit's Historic Eastern Market.
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July 28, 2022
Purchase demand continues to tumble as the cumulative impact of higher rates, elevated home prices, increased recession risk, and declining consumer confidence take a toll on homebuyers. It's clear that over the past two years, the combination of the pandemic, record low mortgage rates, and the opportunity to work remotely spurred greater demand. Now, as the market adjusts to a higher rate environment, we are seeing a period of deflated sales activity until the market normalizes.
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It will be amazing at first. A rush of emotions, a sense of peace and satisfaction – all at the same time. They will give you a feeling that no one else could so far. All your senses will come to life. Your soul will feel alive again – like a little kid again seeing the world for the first time.
For the first time in a very long time, you will feel whole. You'll feel like life makes sense again.
But before you know what is happening, it will happen all at once – that other facet of their personality, the one that almost broke you, it will show up. It will always show up. It will leave you confused, burnt, and worst of all, worst of all it will make you feel trapped, angry at yourself for allowing this to happen again. You never, ever have to feel like that.
Please, don't forget about all the nights you cried till you had no tears left. Don't ever forget about why you broke up. Don't forget about how they spun you around in their toxicity and drowned you in all their issues.
Don't ever forget about that pain, that excruciating pain they caused that left you so torn that you felt helpless. Don't ever forget that someone who cares about, loves you, will never ever do anything to hurt you. And say they do love you, say they do care, then that is even worse. That means they will always love themselves more. That means that they still haven't worked out their issues and until they have, you will always be their emotional punching bag.
They will always use you to feel good because you are amazing and strong and they know you love them so much – they know you will always take them back.
When they left, you knew somewhere in your heart that it was actually the most positive thing. You knew subconsciously that you were lucky that this person was no longer a part of your life because you opened yourself up for someone new, someone better, a more extraordinary love, someone who deserves you. Someone who always lifts you up, and not just on the days when they're in a good mood, when it's convenient for them.
You deserve someone who doesn't give you internal conflicts. Someone who never leaves when things get hard, when life becomes complicated, when you're lost and confused and aren't sure of what to do next. Someone who never leaves when you get caught in the rain, someone who never gets swayed no matter how many people are trying to get their attention, because in their heart they know that what they have with you comes once in a lifetime.
I know you love them, and I know that they may have even lifted you up when you were doubting yourself. I know they were your best friend. I know that you told them all about your past, about all the people that hurt you. About all the things you did that you're ashamed of, all the things you don't like about yourself, all the things that make you, you – and they wiped away your tears and kissed those parts of yourself that you've never showed to anyone.
They loved your heart and this is why it's so hard not to take them back. You had something special, and that connection will always be there. I know.
But I also know that they wanted things their way – that when you started to challenge them, that's when the problems started. I know that after all was said and done, they left you broken. I know that you broke up for a reason. I know about all the pain they caused you, about all the lies and all the times you hated yourself for putting up with their toxicity.
So when they come back, and they will, please remember all of this. Because I promise you, when someone is selfish, when someone has destroyed you and your happiness once – they will always, always do it again.
Leave your life open for a love that you deserve – I promise you, it's out there.
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The Theatre de l'Opera, the first french operahouse, was built between 1862 and 1875, according to plans drawn by Charles Garnier, architect.
It is the largest theatre in the World (11.000 sq. meters), an the best monumental achievement of the Second Empire. Above the steps, where the arcades lead into the theatre lobbies, some superb statues and groups, among which la Danse, by Carpeaux, are worth special notice. Upstairs, a majestic loggia opens on to magnificent foyer.
The Staircase and the auditorium are juste as sumptuous. The opera Library and Museum are in the Pavillon de l'Empereur.


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School flu closings put working moms in a bind
| New York and Mexico City
President Obama, at the behest of public-health officials, is recommending that schools with confirmed or suspected cases of swine flu "strongly consider temporarily closing so we can be as safe as possible."
Mexican officials have already taken that step and closed all schools nationwide until at least May 6.
The goal is to keep the flu from spreading. But the request brings up a glaring disconnect between the needs of public health and the majority of workplace policies, at least in the United States.
Nearly half of the people who work for private employers in the US have no paid sick leave, according to an analysis of data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Among low-income workers in private employment, almost 80 percent have no paid sick time.
Of those workers in private employment who have paid sick leave, only a third can take a paid sick day to care for an ill child.
So when a school closes, it can create chaos.
"School being shut is the worst thing that can happen for parents who work," said Tina Schiller, who on Tuesday was picking up her young daughter, as usual, from Public School 234 in lower Manhattan. "Remember that one snow day? That was enough to put people over the edge."
There are now hundreds of suspected cases of swine flu in 10 US states. Two public schools in New York, both in Queens, have been closed. Health officials are also considering closing a parochial school in Manhattan. Several schools in California, Illinois, and Texas have closed as well after students tested positive for swine flu. And more are expected to shut their doors in coming days if the flu spreads.
"It's a very serious thing to close down a school or a school system because parents need to work. It's almost easier to shut down a whole city rather than one part of it," says Nicholas Freudenberg, professor of urban public health at Hunter College in New York City. "If you shut down schools and you don't shut down workplaces, what are the parents with a 7-year-old going to do?"
The Family and Medical Leave Act, which was passed in 1993, does require large employers to give workers 12 weeks of unpaid leave in the case of serious illness or that of a child. But to become eligible, a person must work for a company that has more than 50 employees, and they must have worked there at least 12 months and for more than 1,250 hours (about 30 weeks of 40 hours each) in the preceding 12 months. As a result, many low-wage workers don't qualify for the unpaid leave.
Currently, only three cities in the US require companies to offer paid sick leave: San Francisco, Milwaukee, and Washington. Bills to require paid sick leave are pending in several states as well as in Congress. The proposed Healthy Families Act would require employers to guarantee workers seven days of paid sick leave a year to "recover from a short term illness, to care for a sick family member, to seek medical care or to seek assistance related to domestic violence," according to a letter sent to Democratic members of Congress from the bill's sponsors, Sen. Edward Kennedy (D) of Massachusetts and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D) of Connecticut.
Opponents of the bill say it would impose too many costs and restrictions on small businesses. Advocates say it would remedy the current disconnect between public-health needs and many current workplace policies.
"Even before the swine flu outbreak, there's been a growing recognition that public-health and workplace polices are indeed connected," says Kevin Miller, a researcher at the Institute for Women's Policy Research in Washington. "If a person can't stay home, there are real consequences, particularly for people who work with the public like food-service workers, who are the least likely to have paid sick leave."
Working parents in Mexico are already coping with the problem of how to take care of their children. On Monday, Mexican officials took the unprecedented step of closing all schools nationwide. On Tuesday, Teresa Castillo was in a park throwing a ball back and forth with her two children, including a first-grader.
She considers herself fortunate. "I don't work, so I can be with them," she says. But her cousins have had to scramble to find family members to care for their children. "If this goes on, I will pitch in, too," she says.
The Castillos were practically alone in the park. Most parents, such as Julia Gomez, have opted to keep their children indoors.
Ms. Gomez is a domestic worker who has had to place child care in the hands of her cousin, with whom she lives. It's a challenge, she says, to keep her active, 10-year-old son indoors all day, but she's not willing to take any risks.
The strong family networks in Mexican society, she adds, have lessened the consequences of schools closing down.
"In the US, this would be a catastrophe," Gomez says, since many working parents would have nowhere to place their children. But in Mexico, she says, "there is more often than not a grandparent, or cousin, or sibling nearby."
Outside PS 234 on Tuesday, many parents picking up their children voiced dread at the prospect of schools closing, but also a determination to keep their children safe. (PS 234 is not one of the schools that has closed.)
"It would be a big problem," said Tina Lichtman, holding her young son's hand as she waited to cross the street. "I work freelance so I could manage, and I think we would have to manage if it was a time of crisis. But I also think we have to be careful not to blow things out of proportion."
Across the street, parents and students were lining up in front of an ice-cream truck. There, Christine Scuillio, a working mother of two, said that school closures would put her "in a bind." Her children, she said, could come to her studio where she works in video production. But that could only last for so long. "It could get difficult," she said.


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Acoustic-Structure Interaction
Acoustic-Structure Interaction Creates Sound
Acoustics is the physics of sound – the sensation of very small and rapid changes in the acoustic pressure above and below the atmospheric pressure. We describe these changes as pressure waves propagating in space and time. The wave crests and troughs represent the pressure maxima and minima, respectively.
When a vibrating structural object disturbs the gas or liquid (the fluid) carrying the acoustic pressure waves, sound is created. The vibrating object in question may be a plate, membrane, or solid. This process is also referred to as acoustic-structure interaction. The pressure waves in the fluid medium also produce vibrations in the solid. The interaction is two-way, although sometimes, the interaction in one direction is dominating. An everyday example of this is the speaker cone in a sound system.
Acoustic-structure interaction involves the coupling of physics from two different fields: acoustics and structural mechanics. In some applications, both the acoustic pressure waves in the fluid and the vibrations of the solid are strong enough to affect each other significantly, resulting in two-way coupling.
An Example of Acoustic-Structure Interaction
In a loudspeaker, the structural displacements of the voice coil impose a vibration of the speaker cone membrane. This leads to pressure changes in the surrounding air and creates the sound signal heard by the listener.
If you observe a bass speaker cone as it produces sound at a very low frequency, you may notice that it moves back and forth. When it moves forward, the cone compresses the air in front of it, thereby increasing the air pressure. As it then moves back, beyond its initial position, it reduces the air pressure. The continued movement of the cone causes a wave to radiate at alternating high and low pressure at the speed of sound. The air surrounding the speaker cone also influences the cone movements, for example, in terms of so-called added mass. These effects need to be taken into account when designing and optimizing speakers.
Deformation and velocity fluctuations of a vibrating micromirror.
Deformation and velocity fluctuations of a vibrating micromirror.
In other cases, acoustic pressure waves in the medium are used to produce vibrations in a solid, such as in ultrasound imaging or in nondestructive impedance testing.
Viscous and Thermal Damping of Vibrations
Thermal and Viscous Losses
Thermal and viscous losses come into play when sound propagates in small structures, such as small transducers and receivers. This causes the sound waves to weaken, or attenuate, but most importantly, the structural vibrations are damped. These effects are typically observed in response measurements where resonances are damped (rounded with high Q-values) and shifted down in frequency. Including these effects is essential when, for example, modeling miniature transducers like MEMS microphones. The study of these loss mechanisms falls under thermoacoustics, a subset of the acoustics field. Viscosity and thermal conduction effects typically lead to significant losses (energy dissipation) near the walls of the structure in the acoustic boundary layer.
Bulk thermal conduction and viscosity can also lead to losses when acoustic signals (sonar signals, for instance) are transmitted over long distances and are weakened. In air, it is important to consider bulk losses only at very high frequencies, but they can be disregarded at audio frequencies.
Acoustic pressure for an oblique incident pressure wave on a porous sediment layer.
Acoustic pressure for an oblique incident pressure wave on a porous sediment layer.
The Couplings
In classic acoustics, when solving the Helmholtz equation or the scalar wave equation, the physical assumption is that the fluid is inviscid and isentropic. In this case, slip conditions exist on solid walls and coupling is done normal to the surface. Hence, the acoustic-solid coupling is a multiphysics phenomenon, where the acoustic pressure causes a load on the solid and the structural acceleration is exciting the fluid (the normal acceleration of the solid wall).
When the fluid is modeled including the viscous and thermal losses, both a mechanical and thermal condition must be specified at the solid surface. The no-slip condition must apply, ensuring continuity in the velocity; the movement of the solid is equal to the movement of the fluid. Finally, the acoustic fluctuations in the temperature are typically assumed to be isothermal at walls (thermal conduction is much larger in solids than in fluids). These conditions lead to a tightly coupled multiphysics problem. For harmonic perturbations, it can be thought of as fluid-structure interaction (FSI) in the frequency domain.
Porous Materials
Another area where pressure waves and structural vibrations are closely linked is when sound propagates in porous materials. The pressure fluctuations in the saturating fluid interact with different elastic waves (shear and longitudinal) in the porous material. Because the pores are often small in size, losses exist here that introduce damping in the system. Moreover, the porous domain can be coupled to pure solid structures or to pure fluid domains, introducing a multitude of multiphysics couplings.
There are several ways of describing the propagation of waves in porous materials. One of the most detailed involves solving Biots equations. They account for the coupled propagation of elastic waves in the elastic porous matrix and pressure waves in the saturating pore fluid. This includes the damping effect of the pore fluid. Another approach is to treat the porous matrix and saturating pore fluid as a homogenized equivalent fluid. In this case, only the pressure waves are modeled including descriptive losses. The loss models can range from pure empirical models based on measurements to analytical or semianalytical phenomenological models; examples include the Delany-Bazley-Miki or the Johnson-Champoux-Allard models.
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What does the phrase to get stuffed mean in the following passage taken from my IELTS reading exercise?
One of London Zoo's recent advertisements caused me some irritation, so patently did it distort reality. Headlined "Without zoos you might as well tell these animals to get stuffed", it was bordered with illustrations of several endangered species and went on to extol the myth that without zoos like London Zoo these animals "will almost certainly disappear forever". With the zoo world's rather mediocre record on conservation, one might be forgiven for being slightly sceptical about such an advertisement.


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Bear Creek Valley Golf Club is a par 72, 6796 yard layout. The course meanders through 250 acres of colorful Ozark forest, meadows and scenic valleys along "Little Bear Creek." The course has zoysia fairways, subtle L93 bentgrass greens, and multiple tee settings which will ensure an enjoyable, yet challenging, round of golf. The facilities include a casual restaurant and lounge, which opens daily at 7:00 A.M. Bear Creek Valley – affordable golf, casual dining, and a friendly atmosphere.


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Anhinga in flight. The Anhinga (Anhinga anhinga), is a water bird of the warmer parts of the Americas. .It is a cormorant-like bird.
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