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John of Damascus
Syrian monk and priest
Chrysorrhoas redirects here. For the river, see Barada. Saint John of Damascus 200pxSaint John Damascene (arabic icon)Doctor of the ChurchBorn c. 645 or 676 ADDamascusDied December 4, 749(749-12-04)Mar Saba, JerusalemHonored in Eastern Orthodox ChurchRoman Catholic ChurchEastern Catholic ChurchesLutheran ChurchAnglican CommunionCanonized Pre-CongregationFeast December 4March 27 Saint John of Damascus was a Syrian monk and priest.
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Saint John Damascene has the double honor of being the last but one of the fathers of the Eastern Church, and the greatest of her poets. It is surprising, however, how little that is authentic is known of his life. The account of him by John of Jerusalem, written some two hundred years after his death, contains an admixture of legendary matter, and it is not easy to say where truth ends and fiction begins.
The ancestors of John, according to his biographer, when Damascus fell into the hands of the Arabs, had alone remained faithful to Christianity. They commanded the respect of the conqueror, and were employed in judicial offices of trust and dignity, to administer, no doubt, the Christian law to the Christian subjects of the Sultan. His father, besides this honorable rank, had amassed great wealth; all this he devoted to the redemption of Christian slaves on whom he bestowed their freedom. John was the reward of these pious actions. John was baptized immediately on his birth, probably by Peter II, bishop of Damascus, afterwards a sufferer for the Faith.
The attainments of the young John of Damascus commanded the veneration of the Saracens; he was compelled reluctantly to accept an office of higher trust and dignity than that held by his father. As the Iconoclastic controversy became more violent, John of Damascus entered the field against the Emperor of the East, and wrote the first of his three treatises on the Veneration due to Images. This was probably composed immediately after the decree of Leo the Isaurian against images, in 730.
Before he wrote the second, he was apparently ordained priest, for he speaks as one having authority and commission. The third treatise is a recapitulation of the arguments used in the other two. These three treatises were disseminated with the utmost activity throughout Christianity.
John devoted himself to religious poetry, which became the heritage of the Eastern Church, and to theological arguments in defense of the doctrines of the Church, and refutation of all heresies. His three great hymns or "canons," are those on Easter, the Ascension, and Satin Thomas's Sunday. Probably also many of the Idiomela and Stichera which are scattered about the office- books under the title of John and John the Hermit are his. His eloquent defense of images has deservedly procured him the title of "The Doctor of Christian Art."
Works by John of Damascus
With over twenty volumes, the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers is a momentous achievement. Originally gathered by Philip Schaff, the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers is a collection of writings by classical and medieval Christian theologians. The purpose of such a collection is to make their writings readily available. The entire work is divided into two series, each with fourteen volumes. The second series focuses on a variety of important Church Fathers, ranging from the fourth century to the eighth century. The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers are comprehensive in scope, and provide keen translations of instructive and illuminating texts from some of the great theologians of the Christian church. These spiritually enlightening texts have aided Christians for over a thousand years, and remain instructive and fruitful even today!
St. John of Damascus was an Arab Christian monk and priest who lived from late 600 to late 700 C.E. He was a man of many talents, and did work in the fields of music, theology, law, and philosophy. This collection of his works includes three sermons he wrote and preached on icons in the church. The Iconoclastic Controversy (where some church members believed icons had become idols and should be removed from worship) came to a head in the eighth century, and St. John defended the use of icons in worship. This volume also includes three sermons St. John preached on the Assumption - the Catholic doctrine of Mary being taken up to heaven. St. John's sermons are a revealing look into the icon controversy and the Assumption doctrine. Those interested in these ancient debates will enjoy his historical perspective.
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Category: Phantom of the Opera News Posted by: admin Not content with the millions he's made in the world's theatres, Andrew Lloyd Webber has taken his cash cow Phantom of the Opera to the big screen. Stephanie Bunbury reports.
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Article Date: January 2, 2005 | Publication: The Age.Com | Author: editors
From this distance, it looks like a no-brainer. Take the most successful musical in history, lush it up with all the spectacle modern cinema can offer and the resonance of a 105-piece orchestra, make squillions. And now that The Phantom of the Opera is finally on our screens, you wonder why it took so long.
You also wonder, given that Andrew Lloyd Webber owns the movie outright, what kind of swell it might put on his reputed fortune of �450 million ($A1.14 billion). Because whether or not you think Lord Lloyd-Webber is worth two bob as a composer, he is indisputably talented at making money.
Paradoxically, it is partly the Phantom's very success that has kept it off our screens for so long. Warners bought the rights to Phantom in the late 1980s, but the Really Useful Group, Lloyd Webber's production company, was afraid a film version would cut into theatre ticket sales. So far, punters in 18 countries have bought 80 million tickets to see Phantom live. The cast recording of 1987 is the most successful ever, with 40 million units shifted. Andrew Lloyd Webber himself pointed out to an interviewer in 1999 that it was "the biggest entertainment in any medium ever, including film. Forget Harry Potter, forget Titanic."
Lloyd Webber first asked Joel Schumacher to direct the film in those early days of excitement at Warners, when Phantom was a hot new project and he, after surprise successes with St Elmo's Fire and The Lost Boys (1987), was a hot new talent. It was to star Michael Crawford, the original stage Phantom, and Lloyd Webber's wife Sarah Brightman as Christine.
"We were ready to make it in Prague and Munich," says Schumacher now. "We were in pre-production. The sets and costumes had been designed. And then Andrew and Sarah decided to divorce, which was amicable but their lawyers got involved in all the rights and the plug got pulled. Then a couple of years later, when Andrew came back to me, my career had taken off."
But the two men stayed friends and, after years of dinners during which Schumacher would sometimes suggest other directors for the job, Lloyd Webber urged him once again to take it on himself. "And this mutual friend, who is a producer, said, �Before you say no, think about why you wanted to do it 16 years ago. And if you still want to do it for those reasons, then do it'. So I thought about the films I could have been doing last year and this was scarier, more interesting and more passionate."
18-year-old Emmy Rossum plays Christine in the film version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera, and Gerard Butler plays the title role.
18-year-old Emmy Rossum plays Christine in the film version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera, and Gerard Butler plays the title role.
Lord Lloyd-Webber's Phantom of the Opera is the record breaker, but it was not the first. The novel by Gaston Leroux was published in 1910 and has inspired half a dozen films, the first and arguably greatest being the 1925 silent classic with Lon Chaney, which played out the full, frightening horror of the disfigured malevolence prowling the bowels of an old theatre. But when Andrew Lloyd Webber saw a campy theatrical version of the story back in the days when he was first engaged to Brightman, who would become his second wife and the first Christine in what was to become his own Phantom, it struck him as essentially a love story.
"It's that conflict in the adolescent girl," he told The Guardian newspaper in London. "Her first love is Raoul, the gorgeous tenor whom every mother would hope her daughter would marry, but the danger side of her, the rock'n'roll side, is the Phantom. We all know, us rock'n' roll dads, that she wants the Phantom."
He wanted the chance, he says, to get his teeth into "a full-blooded romantic musical". It is an approach that has won the hearts of millions, turning Leroux's hectically confused novel into "a classic".
Throughout the decade when the film of Phantom didn't happen, fans were increasingly disturbed by rumours about the casting. Michael Crawford, the definitive Phantom, is now 62, but there were demonstrations outside Warners by devotees determined that no other contender - John Travolta one year, Antonio Banderas the next - should take the role that was rightfully his. Back at the studio, however, no decisions were being made on Phantom at all. Nobody on the inside was pushing it. Lloyd Webber himself has related how a Warners representative told him that while he got the idea of people singing inside an opera house, he couldn't see why they would sing on the roof. "And I thought, �It's a musical!'" It was this that persuaded him that he should try, somehow, to buy the rights back and make the film under his own steam.
With Schumacher once again on board, any suggestion that Michael Crawford could reprise his stage success was forgotten. Schumacher loves glamour, youth and "sexiness", a word he uses frequently. "I said I'd do it, but they'd have to all be very young and beautiful and really sexy and really gifted. I wasn't going to do a middle-aged Phantom."
At one time Katie Holmes was mooted as Christine but, at 26, even she was too old. He wanted a teenage Christine and a Phantom with a bit of rock'n'roll about him.
Pretty, dewy Emmy Rossum was only 16 when she was cast. Incredibly, however, she was already a veteran of both opera and films: she joined the Metropolitan Opera House's training scheme for talented children at the age of seven and went on to work in films, coming to Phantom straight from the set of The Day After Tomorrow. Now 18, she has a frightening kind of pert self-possession. "I didn't know Emmy existed when she came for audition," says Schumacher. "The fact that there was this gorgeous girl with the most beautiful skin and perfect colouring who had been singing opera since she was seven - it was like, �Thank you, God'."
The two leading men are considerably older - Patrick Wilson, who plays the Vicomte Raoul de Chagny, is rather long in the tooth at 31 to have been Christine's childhood sweetheart, while Gerard Butler's Phantom is now 35. Butler is, as the agitators might say, no Michael Crawford, but his wavering adherence to the upper reaches of Lloyd Webber's melodies is outweighed by exactly the sort of masculine sexuality Schumacher wanted. The deal was that the leads had to be able to sing their own roles; only Minnie Driver, as the screechingly over-the-top Italian diva displaced by young Christine, was dubbed. (This despite the fact that the release of Phantom follows the release of Driver's first album as singer and songwriter. "But she has to sing like Maria Callas," Schumacher explains. "And the great opera singers take themselves very seriously. I needed someone who was willing to take the mickey, as we say, and Minnie had great fun with it.")
Whether the film will succeed, or perhaps whether it will succeed at the stratospheric level that is Lloyd Webber's rightful airspace, is another matter. Those film reviewers who declare themselves fans of the stage show have greeted the film with lukewarm approval. Plenty more hate it, largely for the reasons they would hate the stage show were they obliged to see it.
In Phantom, Lloyd Webber plunders operatic tropes, just as he did various styles of popular music in Starlight Express and Jesus Christ Superstar, in order to create "pastiche without love", to quote another critic. While Gerard Butler describes the music as "incredibly moving and powerful", the naysayers describe it, to quote one, as "a plodding musical score that burrows into your head like a bad pop tune".
There is resentment, too, that a story full of Freudian potential has been watered down to no more than another soft-rock meeting in the candy store. "The guignol is alchemised into syrup, creating a film so lifeless and soulless it's almost scary," wrote one critic.
But perhaps none of that really matters. Whatever it does in the theatres, Phantom of the Opera will have a great commercial life on DVD, being seen and loved in millions of suburban lounge rooms. Without question, both Andrew Lloyd Webber and Joel Schumacher - who will tell you affably that, no matter how much Batman and Robin flopped, "I made a fortune for them in merchandise" - will have taken that into detailed account.
The story of Lord Lloyd-Webber is not quite rags-to-riches, but it is certainly a model of focused aspiration. Young Andrew's father was an organist and composer; his mother was a piano teacher. He thinks his father could have been a great writer of film scores - "he was as good as any of the major Hollywood writers" - but he felt it would let his family down if he deserted serious music.
Andrew did not have to shoulder that burden.
He dropped out of Oxford after one term to concentrate on writing musicals. Tim Rice, the lyricist who worked with him on Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat and Jesus Christ Superstar, recalls in his memoirs that when they met in the '60s Lloyd Webber was only 17 but had no interest in writing pop songs. His focus was already the West End.
Over the years, he made those grubby streets his own. This is almost literally true: the Really Useful Group, in which he is the 100 per cent shareholder, jointly owns 12 London theatres. The greater truth, however, is the extent to which one man has transformed and dominated the commercial theatre culture.
Before Andrew Lloyd Webber, only Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap had run for years and years; its very longevity was part of its freakish sideshow quality. Cats, which opened in 1980, changed all that. It ran for 21 years; Starlight Express, which opened in 1984 to critical dismay at its lack of any real plot or memorable tunes, went on to run for 17 years. Both closed in 2002, victims of September 11. In 1986, the Phantom started swinging that chandelier. He's still going strong.
The most recent Lloyd Webber to hit the stage is The Woman in White, based on Wilkie Collins' Victorian chiller and featuring Michael Crawford in a supporting role. It opened in September to reviews ranging from the gushing to the damning. The Sunday Times deemed it a "majestic return to the musical theatre", with "a great arching narrative, brilliantly told", while The Evening Standard felt it "deserves to be stuffed and placed in a museum for deceased musicals". It was "about as spine-chilling as a Teletubbies teaparty," said The Observer, though its critic did praise some performances.
The conservative Sunday Telegraph, however, nailed it by looking at the new show as product. "This is standard-issue Lloyd Webber," said the critic, that would "run and run" rather than "run and run and run". With a revived Joseph packing them in around the corner and Phantom showing in two media, it is safe to say that the West End is still Webber Central.
Recently, however, Lloyd Webber himself suggested that his name is no longer the box-office draw it once was. He even suggested that, after 14 musicals, he might be ready to move on to something else. Movie scores, perhaps. Or serious music. "I've been sent a book of poems written in the Warsaw Ghetto during the war," he told The Guardian. "I'm thinking about it seriously � A song cycle."
Not that he has shown any real signs of letting go of the musical: there is constant talk of new ideas and he is an inveterate tinkerer, even on successful shows. He closed Sunset Boulevard in London at the height of its success to rework it, at an estimated cost of $18 million; this year, he shut Bombay Dreams, the Bollywood musical he commissioned, produced and shepherded to popular success, after just 18 months because he felt the new Broadway version was better. A revamped London show will open next year.
This is the thing about Andrew Lloyd Webber: his musicals are not, in fact, pastiches without love. If the music is middle-brow and the stories rendered banal, they are still the shows he wants to do as much as they are the shows the masses want to see. His musicals are his children, by his own admission, even if he puts them to work forever like some Gradgrind of Drury Lane. And for all his apparent commercialism, he prides himself on having pushed the musical form into new zones: on having written The Beautiful Game about terrorism in Northern Ireland, for example, even if it did only run for a year.
And clearly, he is driven. It can't be the money any more. Like the Phantom, he's out to haunt us.
The Phantom of the Opera is now showing.
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Not content with the millions he's made in the world's theatres, Andrew Lloyd Webber has taken his cash cow Phantom of the Opera to the big screen. Stephanie Bunbury reports.

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I hope whoever is reading this now is not chewing Qat.
If you don't know what qat is, let me give you a brief introduction. Qat is the son of plants, he's lettuce's cousin, and spinaches' wicked brother! Qat is the green leaf that is chewed and stored in your left cheek if you are a pro, in your right cheek if you are a beginner, and in both sides if you are a dinosaur.
I once saw a man who had to make a hole in between the qat packed into either cheek so smoke his cigarette!
There's a word for the man who packs his cheeks like this. In Arabic we call him mubahshem. There's no way to really translate this word, so I'll call him " balloon cheeks."
People chew everywhere, in the streets, inside shops, on the pavement, in hospitals, even in tourist destinations like Kamaran Dam. Somehow, a chewer always ends up in every picture you take. Families can't anywhere without being disturbed by chewers who just sit there and stare. Families need to walk with portable partitions everywhere!
Chewers have destroyed tourist spots with trash. Everywhere they go, they leave a trail of plastic bags, tissues, empty bottles, and green spit. The least you can do, when you finish chewing is pick up after yourself.
Celebrities walk on the red carpet in some countries; here, they walk on green carpets of qat. Women fill their cheeks with Botox in order to look beautiful; here, men fill their cheeks with qat. Chewers, let's be honest, is there a woman who looks elegant with balloon cheeks? And I don't think women find balloon cheeks attractive in men.
How can you flirt with girls in the street with a balloon cheek? Have you seen yourself in the mirror? And please, try not to laugh when you are chewing.
Dear chewers on cars, busses, and on the streets, please be careful not to shower people when you talk to them. People need to start holding umbrellas when speaking with chewers. And please, please, please do not spit on the street. The street is not yours to spit on. We walk here, too.
Soldiers in other countries are tall, broad-shouldered, clean, strong, and muscular. Our soldiers? They're very skinny, very young, and you find them at checkpoints each with his cheeks packed to the limit. Our soldiers need to train to build muscles, and muscles are not built with qat.
Qat in this country is the biggest money vacuum.When do you Yemenis stop chewing? When they're broke. Let's calculate it, if you spend YR1,000 a day on qat, cigarettes, and a drink that's YR30,000 a month. If you spend YR2,000 a day on your habit, that's YR60,000 a month. Some people might spend four or five thousand on their daily chew. You do the math.
With this money, why don't you sign up for a course, travel, or save money for a business?
And worse, if you are a man that can't give your young children money to buy sweets, or can't buy pampers, oil, or rice for the house—why do you buy qat?
There is something called priorities, and when you have a family, qat should not be the first.
In Yemen there has been a lot of debate on whether qat is hallal or haram (allowed or prohibited in Islam). Some imams say it is haram because of the effects it has on an individual and the country. Others said it's not encouraged and should be done under restrictions. Ironically, people who want to hear that it is "Halal" go to religious figures that chew and ask for their consultation.
Qat in the end is something you chew on, and then spit it. So think before spending money on something that would be spitted out. If you're an addict, I challenge you now to stop. Give it a try for a couple of months, and compare the difference financially and on your health. If you can't stop it, try to limit your intake to once or twice a week, and if you can't do that then chew without making "balloon cheeks", and if you can't even do that, stick to chewing at home.
Qat can cause insomnia, constipation, gum cancer and other diseases. But in the end it's your health, it's your life. If you want to harm yourself it's your choice. But to harm our eyes? Now that's not okay. You harm our eyes with cheek balloons, with spitting on the street and gawking at women.
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It Did Everything but Drag Race
When Ronnie Clark was serving in Vietnam he dreamed of coming home to a new Dodge Charger. In his mind's eye he could see his fastback object of desire: a '66 or '67 model, black with a white interior, a Hemi under the hood. It was more than a fantasy; in fact, he sent money home to his father for the express purpose of buying that car for him.
"I spent a year getting shot at, and I can't have my Hemi Charger?"
As Chris Clark, Ronnie's son, tells the story, his grandpa had other ideas. "You don't need a car like that," the elder Clark told Ronnie on his return from 'Nam. Instead, Ronnie's father used the Charger money to buy a '67 Coronet. Now, this was no slant-six stripper; Ronnie's dad had stepped up to the 440-powered Coronet R/T. But still, Ronnie wasn't happy. "Dad said, 'I spent a year getting shot at, and I can't have my Hemi Charger?' He was ticked off," says Chris.
Not long after, in the spring of 1968, Ronnie spotted a metallic bronze Satellite at a dealership in Espinola, New Mexico, not far from his hometown in Alamosa, Colorado. He fell in love with the color, went to his local Alamosa dealer, and special-ordered a '69 Road Runner in that Bronze Fire Metallic. This time he got his Hemi.
Ronnie wanted to race the car, so along with the Hemi he ordered the Super Trak Pak axle package, which included 4.10 gears, a Sure-Grip differential, and front disc brakes. He did splurge on a fancier GTX interior, but he had the backing on the carpet deleted to save weight. He left off the undercoat for the same reason. The car cost $4,200, and he had to wait six months for it to be delivered.
When the car finally arrived and he went to the dealership to pick it up, he got a shock, says Chris. "A salesman was taking it to fill it up, and was really getting on it. Dad said, 'Get that guy out of my damn car, or you can keep it. He's not driving my car that way.' He's protective of all his stuff, but that car is extra special."
As an early production '69 model, Ronnie's Road Runner is different from most, Chris says. "The outside door buttons, which are normally chrome, are black on his car. And it doesn't have the same headrests."
Turns out Ronnie never did race the Road Runner. Chris says, "He met my mom, got married, and the Road Runner went from race car to family car." It's hard to imagine a four-speed Hemi car doing grocery-getting duties, but Chris said it worked. "My mom drove it back and forth to work. That was the only car they had when they were first married. He washed it every day, waxed it once a week."
In one scenario that's hard to imagine now, Ronnie drove from Alamosa to Durango to pick up a washing machine, and had to drive back—over the 10,850-foot Wolf Creek Pass–in a blizzard. "He had tire chains on the tires and a washing machine in the trunk," Chris says, laughing.
Ronnie's affection for the Road Runner has waxed and waned. Back in the day his head was turned by a new '71 'Cuda convertible, black with a white top, a color scheme similar to the Charger he had dreamed about back in 'Nam. But when he went to trade in the Road Runner, the local dealer would only give him $800. The engine was still under warranty and the dealer didn't really want to guarantee the elephant motor. So Ronnie hung on to it.
The Road Runner's days as family transport came to an end when the water pump gave out during a trip to Oklahoma. "The engine got hot, and it collapsed the rings on two pistons," Chris remembers. "He parked it and didn't want anyone to drive it anymore." The car sat in the Clark garage for some 20 years before Ronnie attempted to rebuild the Hemi. "He went through the motor, rebuilt the carb, put in new gaskets, fired it back up, and wasn't happy with it," Chris says, "so he parked it again."
Chris, meanwhile, grew up and got into cars, and was having fun taking a T-bucket hot rod to local car shows. A few years ago he convinced Ronnie to get the Road Runner out again. Once he sorted out the engine, Ronnie has been enjoying the local show scene.
"I would trailer my car to shows, but that car has never been on a trailer," Chris says. "He'll drive it to a show, even one that's 200 miles away. My dad doesn't think about the value of the car. 'It's just a car, my car,' he says. 'If I want to take it out and drive it, I'll drive it. It's been my car since 1968.'"
Today the Road Runner is still nearly 100 percent original, and still Ronnie's car. He would be telling us the story himself, but when we talked to Chris, Ronnie was recuperating from open-heart surgery.
The car still wears Bronze Fire Metallic paint, but it's a fresh coat. The Road Runner was stripped to bare metal and repainted last year after a tent blew onto it at a show and put a ding in a quarter-panel. Chris says the starter's been changed out, "but that's about it. He bought a set of Hooker headers for it in 1969, put them on, then took them off again. Those headers are still in the shop." Ronnie also bought a set of International mag wheels for the car in 1969, and they stayed on the car until last year, when he swapped them for the Torq-Thrusts on the car now.
"He has every registration for it, has the build sheet from under the back seat, has the papers from trading the '67 Coronet, has all contracts, all the paperwork, every insurance card. He even has the receipts for the headers and wheels from 1969," says Chris.
"He and my mom are the only ones who have driven it more than a mile," adds Chris. "I've driven it only twice. He's very protective of the car. He used it as collateral to buy his first house, finance his shop, finance his second house. 'That car has given me everything I've ever had,' he says.
At a Glance
1969 Road Runner
Owned by: Ronnie Clark, Alamosa, CO
Restored by: Unrestored
Engine: '69 426ci/425hp Hemi V-8
Transmission: 4-speed manual with Hurst shifter
Rearend: Dana 60 with 4.10 gears and Sure-Grip differential
Interior: Black vinyl bucket seat
Wheels: 15×8 American Torq-Thrust
Tires: 215/70R15 front, 225/70R15 rear BF- Goodrich Radial T/A
Special parts: Original with one repaint, 60,000 original miles


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Thursday, December 4, 2008
Solstice Activity: Sun Bread
When the nights are getting longer and winter is closing in, what can you do to charm the pants off a couple dozen kindergartners while grandma is in town? Invite the veteran elementary-school teacher in to talk about the coming of the solstice, of course! This is a great activity to do with young children to explore just why it's been getting dark out long before bedtime.
Here's what we did: sat in a circle and talked about energy, and the seasons, and the sun, and the days getting shorter. I was pretty fascinated by how much these 5 and 6 year olds already know about the world around them. We brought in two balls -- a giant one for the sun and a small one for the earth. A couple volunteers acted out day and night (the earth spun around and we talked about how warmth and light come from the sun) and then the seasons (the child spun around while walking around the sun and then I picked up the smaller ball to show the earth's revolution on its axis. OK, I actually picked up the child and tossed her around, but you get the idea).
Everyone listened raptly while Jewel read Elisa Kleven's Sun Bread. The aide in the room said reverently, "You can tell she's a teacher just by the way she sits." It was so meaningful for me to get to see my mom in action. I loved how she asked the children questions all throughout the story, how she stopped and pointed at the pictures, and how focused the children were while she was reading.
Then we sang, "The earth goes round the sun!" to the tune of "The Farmer in the Dell." (We skipped the moon bit so as to stay on kindergarten message). The kids shook up a couple mason jars of heavy cream until they turned into butter, with lots of help from their kind and generous teacher and teacher's aide. While this shaking (20 minutes or so) was going on, each child made a snake and then a snail which turned into a sun's ray (at their wax-paper covered desks). Oh, and they all washed their hands! We talked about photosynthesis (leaves using sun to make plant energy) and how the cows eat grass and turn that energy into butter. So the butter (and bread) we were making would give us energy from the sun!
Finally, we talked about the winter solstice (coming up for us on Dec. 21, 2008).
My mom and I headed home to bake the bread while the kids had lunch and recess. Then my mom scurried back with the freshly-baked loaves (one of the benefits of living close by the school) and the children gobbled it all up.
Recipe for Sun Bread (adapted from Elisa Kleven's fantastic, eponymous book)
1. Mix well: 3 eggs + 3 tablespoons honey
2. Combine: 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour + 1 stick butter, melted
3. Add the egg mixture to the flour mixture and beat well.
4. In a small bowl combine 4 1/2 teaspoons yeast + 3 tablespoons lukewarm milk
Let stand until mixture is foamy, at least 5 minutes.
5. Add the yeast mixture to the batter and stir. Knead dough on greased, floured surface for 8-10 minutes.
6. Place dough in greased bowl, cover with a cloth, and let rise in a warm place for about an hour (until about doubled in size).
7. Punch down dough, knead for a few minutes. then separate into two portions.
8. To form the sun's face, shape one portion of dough into a round, somewhat flattened ball, then place on a large greased baking sheet. We made the face by making balls/snakes of dough for eyes, nose, and mouth.
9. To make the corona for your sun, roll the remainder of the dough into snakes. Then curl the snakes into puffy snail shapes. Firmly attach the snails around the edge of your sun face.
10. Cover the sun and let it rise again in a warm place for about an hour.
11. Preheat oven to 400F. Bake for about 20 minutes. Test for doneness with a toothpick in the center of the bread (should come out clean).
12. Enjoy with butter!
Got any family or classroom activities you like to do to celebrate the solstice? I'd love to hear them.
10 comments:
Oh, your bread is just beautiful!
This story makes me want to volunteer in a school just to be around kids.
- December 4, 2008 at 11:06 AM
- jennconspiracy said...
Holy cow that's some cute bread!!!
- December 4, 2008 at 11:32 AM
- Joyce said...
My kids would have loved this!
- December 4, 2008 at 11:34 AM
- JessTrev said...
Thanks, Beth Jenn and Joyce! My mom is pretty special and I feel so lucky that we got to have her come spend the day. But you're right, Beth - check out volunteering at a school. You could talk to the kids about ways to not use plastic -- without getting into too many gory details of why it's better for the earth -- I bet they would be fascinated.
- December 4, 2008 at 12:49 PM
- scifichick said...
Wow, that sounds great! Now I want a piece of that yummy bread! I think we'll be making it for solstice.
- December 4, 2008 at 12:59 PM
- Theresa said...
Beautiful! I would like to bake this bread for our Solstice observance - thanks for the recipe and the really neat story :)
- December 4, 2008 at 8:02 PM
- Mindful Momma said...
what a wonderful tradition!
- December 5, 2008 at 2:59 PM
- Mother Earth aka Karen Hanrahan said...
This story completely warms my heart. What a great project for all. I can totally smell and taste this bread! Oh my gosh with homemade butter on it no less.
- December 17, 2008 at 3:30 PM
- Garden Guide said...
This recipe uses a relatively large amount of butter... but it absolutely worth it! The results are very, very tasty. And, of course, the bread is beautiful, too. We've made this to serve to visitors who came to see our house on the Solar Homes Tour.
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Here's a little wrecky behind-the-scenes trivia for you: while I see and tag every photo submission that's sent in each week, I don't always see the e-mails they come in with. That's because my friend and wrecky minion Julianne downloads and names all the files for me beforehand.
The upshot of this is that I see photos with no context, unless Julianne sees fit to squeeze a short explanation into the file name. ("JohnS.sneeezed-while-ordering.jpg") It also means if you ever see a file name like "DebbieR.blue-penguin-penis-poop.jpg, you can blame/thank Julianne.
Most wrecks are pretty self-explanatory, of course, but then there are the ones like this:
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'Course, sometimes puzzling out a confusing cake can lead to all the wrong places:
I bet that's the last time Trin asks for "Cake, Cake, Cake!" on her cake.
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How can university lecturers ensure that their students are learning and achieving to the standard of a graduate and beyond? The Australian Conference on Science and Mathematics Education, hosted by the University of Sydney, will examine this question in a national forum of tertiary educators from Wednesday 26 to Friday 28 September 2012.
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Lately, I have almost become more obsessed with creating the ultimate playlist for our restaurant, than I have with cocktail recipes.
Some points:
- Almost all restaurants (and bars) have some sort of background music.
- The music has two audiences, primarily those who dine in the restaurant, but also those who work in the restaurant.
To the first point, the selection of music is important for the mood and feel of the restaurant. The management typically makes the call on what sort of music they want to hear in their restaurant.
A lot of restaurants these days are choosing to leave this choice to services like Muzak or Pandora.
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The best man at Julian and Janny's wedding decided that he wanted to surprise them with a cake. It was supposed to have "congratulations" written on it in both English and Thai since the bride was from Thailand.
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NEWTOWN, Conn., Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Adam Lanza went into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., wearing a utility vest and not a bulletproof ballistic vest, state police said.
"It was a fishing-type vest -- a jacket with a lot of pockets. It was not a bulletproof vest," state police spokesman Lt. J. Paul Vance told the New Haven (Conn.) Register.
ABC News and some other news organizations initially reported Lanza, 20, wore a bulletproof vest Dec. 14 when he fatally shot 20 schoolchildren and six adult staff members and wounded two at the school.
Lanza earlier shot and killed his mother, Nancy Lanza, at their Newtown home, police said.
After killing the students and staff members, Lanza committed suicide by shooting himself in the head as first responders arrived, police said.
Connecticut restricts bulletproof-vest purchases, requiring sales to be made in person. People convicted of most felonies can't buy or possess body armor.
Police asked lawmakers to adopt the 1998 legislation "because they were encountering criminals who were wearing body armor," Michael Lawlor, a state criminal justice undersecretary, told the newspaper.
A utility vest like the one Lanza wore is readily available and would not have aroused suspicion, Bridgeport, Conn., police officer Dwayne Harrison, president of the local National Association of Government Employees chapter, told the Register.
"Some kids just get those for fun," he said. "In this case, maybe he had that for magazines and bullet rounds."
The information came as a New York City woman was arrested and charged with lying to federal agents after allegedly posing as a relative of a boy killed in the mass shooting to collect donations.
Nouel Alba, 37, of the Bronx, claimed to be an aunt of 6-year-old Noah Pozner and used her Facebook account, phone calls and text messages to solicit money for a "funeral fund," a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Hartford states.
Alba denied she posted any messages on Facebook soliciting donations when asked by law enforcement about the alleged scheme, officials said.
Alba was released on $50,000 bond at her Hartford arraignment Thursday. Her public defender, Deirdre Murray, had no immediate comment.
If convicted, Alba faces a maximum of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.


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Even though the popularity of solid-body electric guitars is as big, if not bigger than ever, more and more players have been seen using hollow-bodied electric guitars in many circumstances. I know that I recently have become very attracted to them for their kind of sound, playability and really the sheer challenge of playing such an instrument.
These kinds of guitars have always been more challenging than their solid-bodied cousins, and of course, it's the reason in the first place that folks such as Les Paul, Paul Bigsby and Leo Fender started to design sold-bodies in the '40s. One thing is for sure, that if you want to play them loud, or even semi-loud, they will present you with feedback problems. I happen to really like the artistic challenge of playing with that feedback, and using it to my advantage. I used a hollow-body ES 330 on my latest album "All Tricked Out", and, it really sang like a bird with that sweet "on the verge" kind of feedback that is so much fun to control, and to "play" with! I wasn't playing super loud, but it was already feeding back a lot….I have NO idea how Ted Nugent manages to play at the volumes he does using a Gibson Byrdland, which is a purely all-hollow bodied guitar!
If you're in the mood for getting into a more "personal" kind of sound, and doing solo guitar gigs that involve things such as fingerstyle and even solo Jazz guitar, then I would certainly recommend taking a look at the hollow-bodies. Gibson and Epiphone have always led the way with their beautiful hollow-bodied instruments, and the two I have pictured here are certainly no exception! The clarity, quality of construction and overall dependability of these guitars has always been the thing of legends, and I certainly recommend them as highly as possible!
In terms of my own personal approach these days, these kinds of instruments have been my guitars of choice, especially in quieter types of gigs. I have been doing some of them strictly solo, which has its own rewards, and also as a duet with my daughter, Lexie Roth, who has a new album out, and who loves to play acoustic and electric hollow-bodies as well. It certainly brings out the best in me, as far as my old days as an accompanist, or "hired gun" as many call it, and of course, those were also great years of learning for me, as well!
So in no way am I asking for you to put down that beloved solid-body baby of yours, but I highly recommend that you give the poor and sometimes "lonely" hollow-bodied electric a try. You really may just find a new "friend", and a whole new array of sounds and textures at your more "resonant" fingertips! Enjoy…..


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E-cigs vs. T-cigs
Electronic cigarettes may be less harmful in the UK than cigarettes but may still be dangerous. Under which circumstances should a person use ecigs? Will they fill your body with plastic?
Electronic cigarettes can contain propylene glycol or vegetable glycerine with nicotine (and in at least two cases polyethylene glycol 400) to form a solution that when heated by an atomizer, produces a visible vapour that provides nicotine to the bloodstream via the lungs when inhaled.
Electronic cigarettes have not been studied enough by scientists in laboratories to form conclusive evidence that their use is either beneficial or harmful to humans. However, some are concerned that unknown side-effects could occur with continuous, consistent use of electronic cigarettes, including cancer.
Behaviour surrounding their use is worrisome because e-cigs are being used habitually by a percentage of non-smokers who otherwise would not use nicotine, they may seem attractive to children, they are not closely regulated, and their use makes it very easy to overdose on nicotine even for experienced smokers.
UK Electronic Cigarettes and E-LiquidDisassembled parts of a first generation e-cigarette.
A. LED light cover
B. battery (also houses circuitry)
C. atomizer (heating element)
D. cartridge (mouthpiece) Parts of a second generation e-cigarette.
An electronic cigarette is a battery-powered vaporizer.[1] The primary parts that make up an e-cigarette are a mouthpiece, a cartridge (tank), a heating element/atomizer, a microprocessor, a battery, and possibly a LED light on the end.[2] An atomizer comprises a small heating element that vaporizes e-liquid and wicking material that draws liquid onto the coil.[3] When the user pushes a button,[4] or (in some variations) activates a pressure sensor by inhaling, the heating element then atomizes the liquid solution[5] The e-liquid reaches a temperature of roughly 100-250 °C within a chamber to create an aerosolized vapor.[6] The user inhales the aerosol, commonly called vapor, rather than cigarette smoke.[7] The aerosol provides a flavor and feel similar to tobacco smoking.[1]
There are three main types of e-cigarettes: cigalikes, looking like cigarettes; eGos, bigger than cigalikes with refillable liquid tanks; and mods, assembled from basic parts or by altering existing products.[8] As the e-cigarette industry continues to evolve, new products are quickly developed and brought to market.[9] First generation e-cigarettes tend to look like tobacco cigarettes and so are called "cigalikes".[10] Most cigalikes look like cigarettes but there is some variation in size.[11] Second generation devices are larger overall and look less like tobacco cigarettes.[12] Third generation devices include mechanical mods and variable voltage devices.[10] The fourth generation includes Sub ohm tanks and temperature control devices.[13] The power source is the biggest component of an e-cigarette,[14] which is frequently a rechargeable lithium-ion battery.[15]A later-generation box mod e-cigarette. Image courtesy of Ecigclick
An e-cigarette is a handheld battery-powered vaporizer that simulates smoking, but without tobacco combustion.[1] Once the user inhales, the airflow activates the pressure sensor, and then the heating element atomizes the liquid solution.[5] Most devices have a manual push-button switch to turn them on or off.[16] E-cigarettes do not turn on by trying to "light" the device with a flame.[4] The e-liquid reaches a temperature of roughly 100-250 °C within a chamber to create an aerosolized vapor.[6] However, variable voltage devices can raise the temperature.[17] A glycerin-only liquid vaporizes at a higher temperature than a propylene glycol-glycerin liquid.[17] Rather than cigarette smoke, the user inhales an aerosol, commonly but inaccurately called vapor.[7] E-cigarettes do not create vapor between puffs.[18]
Vaping is different than tobacco smoking, but there are some similarities with their behavioral habits, including the hand-to-mouth action and a vapor that looks like cigarette smoke.[1] E-cigarettes provide a flavor and feel similar to smoking.[1] A noticeable difference between the traditional cigarette and the e-cigarette is sense of touch.[1] A traditional cigarette is smooth and light but an e-cigarette is rigid, cold and slightly heavier.[1] Since e-cigarettes are more complex than traditional cigarettes, a learning curve is needed to use them correctly.[19]
Compared to traditional cigarettes, the general e-cigarette puff time is much longer, and requires a more forceful suction than a regular cigarette.[20] The volume of vapor created by e-cigarette devices in 2012 declined with vaping.[1] Thus, to create the same volume of vapor increasing puff force is needed.[1] Later-generation e-cigarettes with concentrated nicotine liquids may deliver nicotine at levels similar to traditional cigarettes.[21] Many e-cigarette versions include a voltage potentiometer to adjust the volume of vapor created.[4] The amount of vapor produced is controlled by the power from the battery, which has led some users to adjust their devices to increase battery power.[6]An ordinary cigarette compared to a "cigalike" e-cigarette
E-cigarettes are usually approximately cylindrical, with many variations: pen-styles, tank-styles etc.[22] Some e-cigarettes look like traditional cigarettes, but others do not.[19] There are three main types of e-cigarettes: cigalikes, looking like cigarettes; eGos, bigger than cigalikes with refillable liquid tanks; and mods, assembled from basic parts or by altering existing products.[8]
The primary parts that make up an e-cigarette are a mouthpiece, a cartridge (tank), a heating element/atomizer, a microprocessor, a battery, and possibly a LED light on the end.[2] The only exception to this are mechanical e-cigarettes (mods) which contain no electronics and the circuit is closed by using a mechanical action switch.[23] E-cigarettes are sold in disposable or reusable variants.[8] Disposable e-cigarettes are discarded once the liquid in the cartridge is used up, while rechargeable e-cigarettes may be used indefinitely.[24] A disposable e-cigarette lasts to around 400 puffs.[25] Reusable e-cigarettes are refilled by hand or exchanged for pre-filled cartridges, and general cleaning is required.[4] A wide range of disposable and reusable e-cigarettes exist.[26] Disposable e-cigarettes are offered for a few dollars, and higher-priced reusable e-cigarettes involve an up-front investment for a starter kit.[19] Some e-cigarettes have a LED at the tip to resemble the glow of burning tobacco.[21] The LED may also indicate the battery status.[1] The LED is not generally used in personal vaporizers or mods.[2]
First-generation e-cigarettes usually simulated smoking implements, such as cigarettes or cigars, in their use and appearance.[10] Later-generation e-cigarettes often called mods, PVs (personal vaporizer) or APVs (advanced personal vaporizer) have an increased nicotine-dispersal performance,[10] house higher capacity batteries, and come in various shapes such as metal tubes and boxes.[27] They contain silver, steel, metals, ceramics, plastics, fibers, aluminum, rubber and spume, and lithium batteries.[28] A growing subclass of vapers called cloud-chasers configure their atomizers to produce large amounts of vapor by using low-resistance heating coils.[29] This practice is known as cloud-chasing.[30] Many e-cigarettes are made of standardized replaceable parts that are interchangeable between brands.[31] A wide array of component combinations exists.[32] Many e-cigarettes are sold with a USB charger.[33] E-cigarettes that resemble pens or USB memory sticks are also sold for those who may want to use the device unobtrusively.[34]
As the e-cigarette industry continues to evolve, new products are quickly developed and brought to market.[9]Various types of e-cigarettes.
First-generation e-cigarettes tend to look like tobacco cigarettes and so are called "cigalikes".[10] The three parts of a cigalike e-cigarette initially were a cartridge, an atomizer, and a battery.[35] A cigalike e-cigarette currently contains a cartomizer (cartridge atomizer), which is connected to a battery.[35] Most cigalikes look like cigarettes but there is some variation in size.[35]
They may be a single unit comprising a battery, coil and filling saturated with e-juice in a single tube to be used and discarded after the battery or e-liquid is depleted.[10] They may also be a reusable device with a battery and cartridge called a cartomizer.[12] The cartomizer cartridge can be separated from the battery so the battery can be charged and the empty cartomizer replaced when the e-juice runs out.[10]
The battery section may contain an electronic airflow sensor triggered by drawing breath through the device.[12] Other models use a power button that must be held during operation.[12] An LED in the power button or on the end of the device may also show when the device is vaporizing.[36]
Charging is commonly accomplished with a USB charger that attaches to the battery.[37] Some manufacturers also have a cigarette pack-shaped portable charging case (PCC), which contains a larger battery capable of recharging the individual e-cigarette batteries.[38] Reusable devices can come in a kit that contains a battery, a charger, and at least one cartridge.[38] Varying nicotine concentrations are available and nicotine delivery to the user also varies based on different cartomizers, e-juice mixtures, and power supplied by the battery.[22]
These manufacturing differences affect the way e-cigarettes convert the liquid solution to an aerosol, and thus the levels of ingredients, that are delivered to the user and the surrounding air for any given liquid.[22] First-generation e-cigarettes use lower voltages, around 3.7 V.[39]Second-generation PV.
Second generation devices tend to be used by people with more experience.[12] They are larger overall and look less like tobacco cigarettes.[12] They usually consist of two sections, basically a tank and a separate battery. Their batteries have higher capacity, and are not removable.[10] Being rechargeable, they use a USB charger that attaches to the battery with a threaded connector. Some batteries have a "passthrough" feature so they can be used even while they are charging.[40][41]
Second-generation e-cigarettes commonly use a tank or a "clearomizer".[12] Clearomizer tanks are meant to be refilled with e-juice, while cartomizers are not.[10] Because they're refillable and the battery is rechargeable, their cost of operation is lower.[10] Hovever, they can also use cartomizers, which are pre-filled only.[10]
Some cheaper battery sections use a microphone that detects the turbulence of the air passing through to activate the device when the user inhales.[42] Other batteries like the eGo style can use an integrated circuit, as well as a button for manual activation. The LED shows battery status.[42] The power button can also switch off the battery so it is not activated accidentally.[43] Second generation e-cigarettes may have lower voltages, around 3.7 V.[39] However, adjustable-voltage devices can be set between 3 V and 6 V.[44]Third-generation PV.
The third-generation includes mechanical mods and variable voltage devices.[45][46] Battery sections are commonly called "mods," referencing their past when user modification was common.[10] Mechanical mods do not contain integrated circuits.[46] They are commonly cylindrical or box-shaped, and typical housing materials are wood, aluminium, stainless steel, or brass.[47] A larger "box mod" can hold bigger and sometimes multiple batteries.[47]
Mechanical mods and variable devices use larger batteries than those found in previous generations.[48] Common battery sizes used are 18350, 18490, 18500 and 18650.[49] The battery is often removable,[46] so it can be changed when depleted. The battery must be removed and charged externally.[46]
Variable devices permit setting wattage, voltage, or both.[40][46] These often have a USB connector for recharging; some can be used while charging, called a "passthrough" feature.[40][50] Mechanical mods do not contain integrated circuits.[46]
The power section may include additional options such as screen readout, support for a wide range of internal batteries, and compatibility with different types of atomizers.[12] Third-generation devices can have rebuildable atomizers with different wicking materials.[10][12] These rebuildables use handmade coils that can be installed in the atomizer to increase vapor production.[48] Hardware in this generation is sometimes modified to increase power or flavor.[51]
The larger battery sections used also allow larger tanks to be attached that can hold more e-liquid.[47] Recent devices can go up to 8 V, which can heat the e-liquid significantly more than earlier generations.[39]
A fourth-generation e-cigarette became available in the U.S. in 2014.[21] Fourth-generation e-cigarettes can be made from stainless steel and pyrex glass, and contain very little plastics.[13] Included in the fourth-generation are Sub ohm tanks and temperature control devices.[13]An e-cigarette atomizer with the coil (heating element) in view.
An atomizer comprises a small heating element that vaporizes e-liquid and a wicking material that draws liquid onto the coil.[3] Along with a battery and e-liquid the atomizer is the main component of every personal vaporizer.[12] A small length of resistance wire is coiled around the wicking material and connected to the integrated circuit, or in the case of mechanical devices, the atomizer is connected directly to the battery through either a 510, 808, or ego threaded connector.[52] 510 being the most common.[52] When activated, the resistance wire coil heats up and vaporizes the liquid, which is then inhaled by the user.[53]
The electrical resistance of the coil, the voltage output of the device, the airflow of the atomizer and the efficiency of the wick all affect the vapor coming from the atomizer.[54] They also affect the vapor quantity or volume yielded.[54]
Atomizer coils made of kanthal usually have resistances that vary from 0.4Ω (ohms) to 2.8Ω.[54] Coils of lower ohms have increased vapor production but could risk fire and dangerous battery failures if the user is not knowledgeable enough about electrical principles and how they relate to battery safety.[55]
Wicking materials vary from one atomizer to another.[56] "Rebuildable" or "do it yourself" atomizers can use silica, cotton, rayon, porous ceramic, hemp, bamboo yarn, oxidized stainless steel mesh and even wire rope cables as wicking materials.[56]A 45mm length, extra-long cartomizer.
The cartomizer was invented in 2007, integrating the heating coil into the liquid chamber.[57] A "cartomizer" (a portmanteau of cartridge and atomizer.[58]) or "carto" consists of an atomizer surrounded by a liquid-soaked poly-foam that acts as an e-liquid holder.[3] They can have up to 3 coils and each coil will increase vapor production.[3] The cartomizer is usually discarded when the e-liquid starts to taste burnt, which usually happens when the e-cigarette is activated with a dry coil or when the cartomizer gets consistently flooded (gurgling) because of sedimentation of the wick.[3] Most cartomizers are refillable even if not advertised as such.[3][59]
Cartomizers can be used on their own or in conjunction with a tank that allows more e-liquid capacity.[3] The portmanteau word "cartotank" has been coined for this.[60] When used in a tank, the cartomizer is inserted in a plastic, glass or metal tube and holes or slots have to be punched on the sides of the cartomizer so liquid can reach the coil.[3]eGo style e-cigarette with a top-coil clearomizer. Silica fibers are hanging down freely inside of the tank, drawing e-liquid by capillary action to the coil that is located directly under the mouthpiece.
The clearomizer was invented in 2009 that originated from the cartomizer design.[57] It contained the wicking material, an e-liquid chamber, and an atomizer coil within a single clear component.[57] This allows the user to monitor the liquid level in the device.[57] Clearomizers or "clearos", are like cartotanks, in that an atomizer is inserted into the tank.[61] There are different wicking systems used inside clearomizers.[3] Some rely on gravity to bring the e-liquid to the wick and coil assembly (bottom coil clearomizers for example) and others rely on capillary action or to some degree the user agitating the e-liquid while handling the clearomizer (top coil clearomizers).[3][62] The coil and wicks are typically inside a prefabricated assembly or "head" that is replaceable by the user.[63]
Clearomizers are made with adjustable air flow control.[64] Tanks can be plastic or borosilicate glass.[65] Some flavors of e-juice have been known to damage plastic clearomizer tanks.[65]Box mod e-cigarette fitted with a rebuildable dripping atomizer (RDA). A view of the RDA deck showing the wicks and coils, juice is dripped into a hopper where the wicks rest as well as atop the coil assembly.
A rebuildable atomizer or an RBA is an atomizer that allows the user to assemble or "build" the wick and coil themselves instead of replacing them with off-the-shelf atomizer "heads".[10] They are generally considered advanced devices.[66] They also allow the user to build atomizers at any desired electrical resistance.[10]
These atomizers are divided into two main categories; rebuildable tank atomizers (RTAs) and rebuildable dripping atomizers (RDAs).[67]
Rebuildable tank atomizers (RTAs) have a tank to hold liquid that is absorbed by the wick.[68] They can hold up to 4ml of e-liquid.[69] The tank can be either plastic, glass, or metal.[65] One form of tank atomizers was the Genesis style atomizers.[68] They can use ceramic wicks, stainless steel mesh or rope for wicking material.[68] The steel wick must be oxidized to prevent arcing of the coil.[68] Another type is the Sub ohm tank.[69] These tanks have rebuildabe or RBA kits.[69] They can also use coilheads of 0.2ohm 0.4hom and 0.5ohm.[69] These coilheads can have stainless steel coils.[70]
Rebuildable dripping atomizers (RDAs) are atomizers where the e-juice is dripped directly onto the coil and wick.[71] The common nicotine strength of e-liquids used in RDA's is 3 mg and 6 mg.[71] Liquids used in RDA's tend to have more vegetable glycerin.[71] They typically consist only of an atomizer "building deck", commonly with three posts with holes drilled in them, which can accept one or more coils.[51] The user needs to manually keep the atomizer wet by dripping liquid on the bare wick and coil assembly, hence their name.[71]
Kanthal wire is commonly used in both RDA's and RTA's.[71] They can also use nickel wire or titanium wire for temperature control.[71]
Variable devices are variable wattage, variable voltage or both.[40][46] Variable power and/or variable voltage have a electronic chip allowing the user to adjust the power applied to the heating element.[12][46] The amount of power applied to the coil affects the heat produced, thus changing the vapor output.[12][32] Greater heat from the coil increases vapor production.[32] Variable power devices monitor the coil's resistance and automatically adjust the voltage to apply the user-specified level of power to the coil.[72] Recent devices can go up to 8 V.[39]
They are often rectangular but can also be cylindrical.[47] They usually have a screen to show information such as voltage, power, and resistance of the coil.[73] To adjust the settings, the user presses buttons or rotates a dial to turn the power up or down.[32] Some of these devices include additional settings through their menu system such as: atomizer resistance meter, remaining battery voltage, puff counter, and power-off or lock.[74] The power source is the biggest component of an e-cigarette,[14] which is frequently a rechargeable lithium-ion battery.[4] Smaller devices contain smaller batteries and are easier to carry but typically require more repeated recharging.[4] Some e-cigarettes use a long lasting rechargeable battery, a non-rechargeable battery or a replaceable battery that is either rechargeable or non-rechargeable for power.[26] Some companies offer portable chargeable cases to recharge e-cigarettes.[26] Nickel-cadmium (NiCad), nickel metal-hydride (NiMh), lithium ion (Li-ion), alkaline and lithium polymer (Li-poly), and lithium manganese (LiMn) batteries have been used for the e-cigarettes power source.[26]PV with variable and regulated power offering battery protection.
Temperature control devices allow the user to set the temperature.[71] There is a predictable change to the resistance of a coil when it is heated.[75] The resistance changes are different for different types of wires, and must have a high temperature coefficient of resistance.[75] Temperature control is done by detecting that resistance change to estimate the temperature and adjusting the voltage to the coil to match that estimate.[76]
Nickel, titanium, NiFe alloys, and certain grades of stainless steel are common materials used for wire in temperature control.[71] The most common wire used, kanthal, cannot be used because it has a stable resistance regardless of the coil temperature.[75] Nickel was the first wire used because of it has the highest coefficient of the common metals.[75]Mechanical PV with a rebuildable atomizer.
The temperature can be adjusted in Celsius or Fahrenheit.[77] The DNA40 and SX350J are common control boards used in temperature control devices.[78] Temperature control can stop dry wicks from burning, or e-liquid overheating.[78]
Mechanical PVs or mechanical "mods", often called "mechs", are devices without integrated circuits, electronic battery protection, or voltage regulation.[46] They are activated by a switch.[71] They rely on the natural voltage output of the battery and the metal that the mod is made of often is used as part of the circuit itself.[79]
The term "mod" was originally used instead of "modification".[10] Users would modify existing hardware to get better performance, and as an alternative to the e-cigarettes that looked like traditional cigarettes.[32] Users would also modify other unrelated items like flashlights as battery compartments to power atomizers.[32][47] The word mod is often used to describe most personal vaporizers.[3]
Mechanical PVs have no power regulation and are unprotected.[71] Because of this ensuring that the battery does not over-discharge and that the resistance of the atomizer requires amperage within the safety limits of the battery is the responsibility of the user.[79]
E-Cigarette Forum 051817 UK
The entering into force of the requirements of the European tobacco products directive in Estonia made e-cigarette seller Nicorex Baltic destroy 19,000 bottles of e-cigarette liquid worth €135 000, as the packaging size did not meet the new requirements.
The liquids were actually in order, had undergone laboratory testing and met the new requirements, but their packaging did not have the necessary warnings on them and the boxes did not contain instructions.
Nicorex said that the transition period allowed by the government was too short, as the shelf life of the liquids was two years, but the length of the transition period only one year.
At the same time, Nicorex welcomed the requirement that the liquids have to undergo laboratory testing and that both the equipment and liquids must be registered in a single European database.
Nicorex described the restrictions concerning the size of packaging as unreasonable, as they increased the ecological footprint.
The transition period under the new tobacco law arising from the European tobacco products directive will end on May 20, after which the stricter requirements will apply to e-cigarettes in full.
Liquids can't be sold in containers bigger than 10 ml, they can't contain more nicotine than 20 milligrams per milliliter, and the vaporizer can't be bigger than 2 ml.
The packaging needs to include a leaflet, instructions, a batch number, a date, and a warning that nicotine is an addictive substance.


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Jervis Bay's famous white-sand beaches and clear turquoise waters are amongst the safest and most beautiful in the world.
Coastal, marine and hinterland National Parks offer fantastic bushwalking, cycling tracks, Indigenous culture, camping spots, cliff-top lookouts and maritime heritage.
Teeming with native Australian wildlife, our resident dolphins play in the bay all year round. See kangaroos, wallabies, echidnas, wombats, and many rare bird and animal species in the wild.
One of the best places in Australia to witness whales on their annual migrations, humpbacks and southern right whales can be seen both offshore and inside the calmer waters of the bay from June through to November.
The many bay and ocean beaches, lagoons, secret coves and hidden creeks are perfect for swimming, kayaking, boating, fishing, standup paddle boarding and surfing.
Unspoiled coastal and country villages have local produce markets, boutique shops, art galleries and a terrific museum. The area boasts world-class cafes, restaurants, pubs, wine bars and a burgeoning music scene.
Choose from all kinds of quality accommodation from luxury to budget: couples' retreats, camping (eco-luxury or bush), boutique B&Bs, motels, hotels, cabins and self-catering holiday homes.
Jervis Bay is central to all the South Coast has to offer: Kangaroo Valley, Berry and Ulladulla all the same distance away and we are close to all the south coast wineries.
MEMBERSHIP: If you have any questions or wish to join the association please write to: PO Box 74 Huskisson NSW 2540, or email: email@example.com


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Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory is an online multi-player game, wherein the players interact with each other over a network, in two teams (Allies and Axis) to defend or destroy mission objectives. Don't forget to work as a team. Or else you will lose! ;)
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