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[VMNT Note: This poem was first posted on 27 March 2014. For more background information, please read the original post. For my other poem in this style, see The Psalm of Saint Valentine.]
As the final Friday of Lent approaches, I've decided to repost my Stations of the Cross reflection, which is written in the form of a crown of sonnets. If you get through the whole poem, you'll see what that means. If you like it, please share!
Via Crucis (or, "Requiem for the Christ")
a crown of sonnets
(Introitus: Requiem aeternam)
Might he entreat you for some favor small?
As he comes near the procurator's throne,
perhaps, from a machine, smash the fourth wall,
then guard him as a mother guards her own,
or give him rest! Upon him shine a light
that vanquishes the Empire's downward thumb;
embrace him now, assuage his trembling fright
as all his friends lie blind and deaf and dumb.
From Zion's peak the Council's voice ascends,
Jerusalem's priests swear a solemn vow:
upon your servant judgment now descends;
and yet, the tainted verdict you allow.
Hear bated breath appeal for drink and rest–
you certainly would grant a brief request!
You certainly would grant a brief request
according to your mercy, love, and care;
yet you lift not one finger to contest
those men who pluck his beard and pull his hair.
No sin has he committed in this world
for on your straight and narrow path he trod,
advancing still to snake-like whips unfurled,
his guiltless face disfigured by your rod.
Instead of threefold mercy, here he finds
a triple agony: abandonment,
the pillar, and that tool of cruelest minds,
the cross, which tears the strongest spirits rent.
Beneath its burden, ev'ry man is small;
see how he cowers, waiting for your call.
See how he cowers, waiting for your call:
when scandal strikes his blood-soaked, dust-caked feet,
weak arms and shoulders shrink from heavy haul,
anointed with the grime of pure defeat.
Upon his belly, prostrate on the ground,
beneath the pow'r of crushing human heel,
the wild profanities rush to surround–
when shall eternal memory repeal
a condemnation so degrading and unjust?
When armed and armored men are so enthralled
by violence, awakened with blood lust,
rage pauses not for him whom Death has called.
Will you descend to save your dear oppressed,
to ransom and to bring him with the blest?
To ransom and to bring him with the blest–
some lesser men might make this aching plea
when witnessing the pain of final test
that brings the cup to him on bended knee.
Absolve your chosen from the chains of sin,
for other men deserve them more than he;
remove the splint'ry burden from his skin
scraped open by the rough, abrasive tree!
Yet when his mother meets his blood-stained gaze
with silent gestures, strengthening her son,
he stumbles on, recalling her old phrase:
"I am a humble servant; be it done."
Against the spirit, human powers wane–
exceeding are his miseries and pain.
Exceeding are his miseries and pain
on this accursed, irascibly dark day;
his weakened heart reduced to ashy grain,
his broken flesh glows red with sin's decay.
Behold! Among the goats, another sheep,
a foreigner, one easy to compel,
arrested near the road where it turns steep–
on him now thrust a momentary hell!
Behold! Your servant meekly leaves the town,
a beast of burden carrying his weight;
mere days before, he gazed on David's crown
as, on a colt, he entered through the gate.
Hosannas ring then quickly fade away;
relief escapes from this appointed day.
Relief escapes from this appointed day.
De tribu Juda Leo vicit? No,
the foes pitch tents, rejoicing as they play,
exclaiming, Ave, Rex! with ev'ry blow.
Against their fearsome visage stands a dame
who braves the gauntlet lined with spear and sword;
some dignity her tattered rags reclaim–
some semblance of humanity restored.
From swollen eyes she clears the soil and sweat;
deep, gaping wounds in vain she tries to close;
he leaves her but a shred on which is set
love's true depiction, drawn with bloody woes.
Unleashed like frenzied beasts none can contain,
infernal powers dance on earth's domain.
Infernal powers dance on earth's domain,
and nothing can console the smitten one
who knows the certainty of death; disdain
for him increases, rendering undone
all hope. Can this exhausting fate be changed
or taken from him while he still can breathe?
Or was this tribulation prearranged,
a sword its master never dares to sheathe?
Its brandished blade with fury now descends
upon the beaten back of the condemned;
as written, into flight go all his friends–
again he falls, with no one to attend.
The willing flesh to club and whip gives way;
unholy terrors strike without delay.
Unholy terrors strike without delay:
not even women who have come to weep
for him can furnish aid; their sad display
of sentimental piety so cheap
and empty– a sharp rebuke they receive.
"Mourn not for me but for your children's sake,
for times approach when people shall believe
that blest are they whose wombs will never break!"
By pity, not compassion, are they moved,
embracing not the man they once adored;
restrained by fear, a lack of faith they proved:
"Does he still come in the name of the Lord,
consigned like this to some unfathomed will,
meek, low, and humble, inching up the hill?"
Meek, low, and humble, inching up the hill,
each limping pace expends his failing might,
as drop by precious drop pours out, until
he too drops 'neath the monumental plight
upon the rocky altar built for him
before all ages. Streaks of scarlet stain
the intersecting beams. Midday turns dim,
black as the night when Egypt's sandy plain
lay shadowed by Death's hand. And unto dust,
that quintessential stuff of flesh and bone,
he falls once more, returning where all must
return, deprived of living breath, alone.
With muted lips, on high he points his eyes,
faced by a torrent of insulting cries.
Faced by a torrent of insulting cries
from ev'ry foaming mouth, sharp tongues assail
his ears as soldiers eye with greed that prize
which shields his final shame– the seamless veil.
Profane hands lay upon its fragile weave
and snatch it from his flesh, peeled and exposed.
"Preserve it whole, apply no blade to cleave
its spread!" –and as the sentence is imposed,
just one man wins the relic, left untorn.
Enrolled into the cohort of your blest,
like holy Joseph, Saul, and David, shorn,
the victim weeps– alea iacta est!
Encircled by the sinister, vile thrill,
in silence he submits to murd'rous skill.
In silence he submits to murd'rous skill.
How can one look on lacerated men
and shredded flesh and rampant gory spill,
and find your saving countenance? How, then,
shall the redeemer guard the wolf-bound flock
if he is dead? Yes, he is lifted high,
but on the scaffold of disgrace. The rock
he chose rolls away, leaving him to die
in utter shame among the petty thieves.
Lashed tightly to the beams, thistle-crowned, nailed,
a mocking sign surmounting he receives
–its sarcasm a threat to Herod veiled.
Proclaiming an unlikely paradise,
derided by the crowd, he slowly dies.
Derided by the crowd, he slowly dies,
while on the grandstand, fierce protest ensues:
"The title o'er him tells blaspheming lies;
he merely said 'I am king of the Jews'";
quod scripsit, scriptum est— the final word
is said as hyssop brings a bitter wine
to soothe him, but his cry is barely heard
as he implores the ear of the divine.
The universe convulses: mountains quake
and heavens tremble, lifting in their sway
the broken, useless veil. Stone-cold hearts shake,
shouting, vere filius erat dei!
Aloft, your servant finishes the plan
exhaling one last breath as mortal man.
Exhaling one last breath as mortal man,
the spear-tip followed; not one bone was crushed.
Fresh blood and living water swiftly ran
from gaping wounds; torrentially they gushed
like new floodgates unleashing purest rain.
The man of justice falls like morning dew
unto the earth; now, opened be the plain,
that he might flourish from the depths anew,
with that poor leper Abraham once called
to join the angels, high above the proud;
and let his ruins now be kindly palled,
lain softly in a swaddling linen shroud.
Released in haste for fear of Sabbath ban
into her arms, he ends whence he began.
Into her arms, he ends whence he began;
the grief-pierced woman finds some costly myrrh
and spices saved from his youth, and the span
of thirty-three years seems a tragic blur
when tyrant men remain upon their thrones
and meek sons are dispatched with disregard,
drawn, hanged, and pierced, then sent beneath the stones
to rot under the watch of armored guard.
And yet, indignant words she dares not say,
but in her heart, she ponders silently;
the words heard by Elizabeth replay–
"The Mighty One has done great things for me…"
To ev'ry hard request, her son gave all;
might he entreat you for some favor small?
Might he entreat you for some favor small?
You certainly would grant a brief request;
See how he cowers, waiting for your call
To ransom and to bring him with the blest.
Exceeding are his miseries and pain;
Relief escapes from this appointed day;
Infernal powers march on earth's domain;
Unholy terrors strike without delay.
Meek, low, and humble, inching up the hill,
Faced by a torrent of insulting cries,
In silence he submits to murd'rous skill;
Derided by the crowd, he slowly dies.
Exhaling one last breath as mortal man
Into her arms, he ends whence he began.


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Advent Daybook, 3: Take a good, hard look/
My Advent daybook for these 24 days of waiting. Join me, won't you? (see previous Advent daybook 2017 posts here)
*Note: If you're reading this in email, the formatting usually looks much better at the website. Just click the post title to get there.*
all readings for today: Amos 3:1-11, Psalm 80:1-7,16-18, 2 Peter 1:12-21, Matthew 21:12-22
* Sunday Scripture readings are taken from the Revised Common Lectionary (Year B). Daily Scripture readings are taken from the Book of Common Prayer (Year 2).
prayer for today:
Choose a Psalm from one of the daily readings, or another that is meaningful to memorize during Advent. Spend a few moments each day memorizing and reciting the Psalm. Notice how the verses begin to embed themselves as you go about your day. Thank God for the comfort of His word.
(see all Advent daybook posts from 2016 here)


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The Pith Helmet and The Sombrero May 13, 2009Posted by thetrainerscorner in Uncategorized.
Tags: Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts, Meeting Helps, Scout Leaders, Sparklers, Training, Webelos
Hello fellow Scouters,
As a district trainer, I am accumulating a lot of training supplies (otherwise known as "Scouting clutter"). My training supplies include a pith helmet and a sombrero. Now I know that these are most definitely not official uniform pieces. But I have them to make a point: Cub Scouting should be an adventure, and it should be fun. (In fact, the last time I did Leader Specific training, I taught the Cubmaster portion and wore the sombrero the entire time).
The pith helmet represents adventure. We are not here to give the boys sit-down lectures – we are here to give them an adventure. We are here to take them and their families camping and hiking. God created a wonderful world and we get to help the boys get out and experience it. And we are here to teach them new skills and to start the process of teaching them to be leaders (which will be further developed in Boy Scouts).
And, of course, the sombrero is for fun. We absolutely have to make our program, whether at the den level or pack level, the most fun they boy will have in a week. If not, we will lose them to sports or other activities. And it is possible to compete with other activities, as I've blogged about before. At my spring den meetings, sometimes boys would come late, with their Scout uniform tops tucked into baseball pants, still wearing their cleats. If you have a fun program, the boys will be there, no matter how booked their schedule is.
So my challenge to all Cub leaders is have a program where you can wear a sombrero or pith helmet or any other crazy hat. (I know of Cubmasters that make a new hat for each pack meeting, based on the theme of the pack meeting, or just to have a crazy hat.) It's hard to be serious or take yourself too serious when you are wearing a sombrero.
Here's to an adventurous and fun Cub Scout program!
In Scouting,
– Scouter Jeff <><
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Sunken City, San Pedro CA
Sunken City is California's version of the Lost City of Atlantis. Okay, maybe it's my version of that. It contains the remains of homes that slid down into the ocean during a landslide that happened in 1929. Since then many youngsters have gathered in these parts to graffiti, hang out, and apparently drink and smoke. A lot. It was a scene that was at once both gorgeous and sad. Of course the view is fantastic, and the ruins remind me of something you'd find in an ancient land. Ehem, Atlantis, ehem...But walking around these remains in flip flops was hazardous since pieces of shattered glass bottles seemed to be more abundant than the dirt underneath. Despite trying my best to tread carefully I still managed to slip and fall on my tuches...thankfully it was on the only part of this cliffside that contained solely dirt. No need for tetanus shots or tweezers here! As for the graffiti, I admired it at first. It added character to the remains. But as I walked around this Sunken City, I felt it change from artistry to just plain old vandalism. I felt like this place could be something much more special. Most of the glass and litter that was left here would inevitably fall into the ocean, if it wasn't already just being thrown in. We read that the city was considering opening it up to the public, which I assume means maintaining it much like a park or memorial. I hope that happens one day.


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Mastering the Art of Signing-Off an E-mail
It is my strongest suspicion that there is no better indicator of one's level of coolness than how they choose to sign off on their e-mails. Much like it's 2nd cousin—the introductory handshake—the e-mail sign-off should display a casual strength in word choice as well as be uniquely memorable to each person. Deliver anything short of this, and you are most likely to be mentally written off and filed under "people I wish not to work with unless absolutely necessary." Let's avoid that.
Two simple ways to make your sign-off be spot-on:
1) Say goodbye to normalcy.
The first step to finding a proper + strong sign-off is to rid yourself of the norm. No more "Sincerely." No more "Best." None of that colorless, freshman-year nonsense. If you're reading this and simultaneously needing to respond to an e-mail that is solely awaiting a sign-off, use "Cheers," courtesy of the Brits. I like to imagine anyone that uses Cheers as someone that is lifting a glass of alcohol in my favor as they click the send button. It doesn't matter if the body of the e-mail involves me getting electronically served divorce papers. I see the sign-off and can only think, "My ex's lawyer is a rad dude."
2) You do you.
In developing your own signature sign-off, recall lines from your favorite movies or television shows. "How do you like them apples," or "ET Phone Home." Song lyrics will also provide creative ammunition. "Stayin' Alive," or maybe "Don't Stop Believin'." There are awesome combinations of words all around us. Open your ears, retain them, and then let them rip. Bonus points when contextually appropriate to your e-mail's body text or particularly relevant to the receiver.
Look—having a solid sign-off is hella important. It's the last thing one will read before they hit your actual name and/or signature for the first time and begin to wonder who you are. Give them a reason to think there's at least a chance that you are awesome.
Long Live the Queen,
Michael Kilcullen


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Obama's visit to Hiroshima reopens old war wounds
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US President Barack Obama has said he will not offer an apology during his visit to the site of the atomic bombing at Hiroshima on Friday, but the trip has already drawn reproach from veterans' groups and victims of Japanese wartime atrocities.
When US President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrive at Hiroshima on Friday it will be the first time a sitting US president has visited the site of the first atomic bomb attack launched at the end of World War II.
The trip comes amid a series of diplomatic moves in the region, part of Obama's declared "pivot" to Asia as US interests in other regions – including the Middle East – have begun to wane. But the trip has already sparked controversy among US veterans' groups and Korean victims of the war.
Speaking in an interview with Japanese broadcaster NHK this week, Obama made clear that he would not be issuing an apology for the US decision to drop the bombs that effectively ended World War II. But for some, the image of a US president visiting the site seems like something of an atonement, official apology or not.
Most Americans view the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as justified to end the war and save the many lives at risk. Some argue that the only alternative would have been a US ground invasion of Asia that would have caused even more deaths, both Allied and Japanese. Others view them as retribution for Japanese aggression in invading much of Asia and launching the December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor that prompted the US to enter the war.
Historians and officials remain divided on whether the bombings were militarily necessary. Historian and Truman biographer David McCullough has noted that, by late spring 1945, not a single Japanese unit had surrendered. But a US government report from 1946 later concluded that Japan "would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped".
Both American and Korean advocacy groups contacted Obama ahead of his Hiroshima trip, asking him not to forget about the victims of Japanese war crimes.
"I don't have any problem with him going, but there is nothing to apologise for," said Lester Tenney, a 95-year-old American survivor of the 1942 Bataan Death March, in comments to AP earlier this month. Thousands of Filipino and US soldiers died during the infamous march to Japanese prison camps.
Tenney wrote to Obama in April, encouraging him to visit Hiroshima but emphasising the suffering of Allied forces at the hands of Japanese soldiers.
"Whereas I encourage a visit to Hiroshima, I do object to any visit that does not first acknowledge the American and Allied forces that fought and died for freedom in the Pacific. To focus solely on the effects of a nuclear weapon removes all responsibility from Imperial Japan for starting the war and conducting it with gross inhumanity."
Jan Thompson, president of the American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor Memorial Society, asked the president to "forego a trip to Hiroshima until you can first make an equally poignant memorialization of the Americans who perished in Japan". Thompson's father was a US sailor who was held by the Japanese in the Philippines.
The Association of Korean Atomic Bomb Victims sent a letter to Obama the week before his visit, noting that between 40,000 and 70,000 South Koreans were killed or otherwise affected by the atomic bombs because they had been either conscripted or forced into hard labour by the Japanese.
"We hope that your visit to Hiroshima will not be used to further the Abe government's intention of portraying Japan merely as a victim," the group wrote.
Gong In-bae, a Red Cross official based in Hapcheon, echoed those sentiments in comments to The New York Times. "I doubt that any of Japan's neighbours welcome Obama's visit," Gong said. "If Japan likes to say that people killed by the atomic bombs were civilians, how about all those civilians it itself had killed in Nanjing (Nanking, China), Korea and elsewhere?"
Nightmare in the Pacific
The war in the Pacific left millions dead across Asia, with Japan responsible for chemical weapons attacks, widespread torture, forced labour and sexual slavery. American deaths in the region are estimated at more than 100,000.
"From the invasion of China in 1937 to the end of World War II, the Japanese military regime murdered near 3,000,000 to over 10,000,000 people, most probably almost 6,000,000 Chinese, Indonesians, Koreans, Filipinos, and Indochinese, among others, including Western prisoners of war," according to the late R.J. Rummel, author and former political science professor at the University of Hawaii.
The Manila massacre of February 1945 killed more than 100,000 civilians during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. But the single most notorious incident was the Nanking Massacre of 1937-1938, when the International Military Tribunal for the Far East says the Japanese army killed more than 250,000 Chinese civilians and prisoners of war. The massacre is also known as the Rape of Nanking after some 20,000 to 80,000 women were sexually assaulted.
Many Japanese dispute these figures, arguing that the Nanking death tolls are exaggerated and that most were likely killed only when they resisted the Japanese occupation.
Japanese military units conducted medical experiments on Chinese civilians and POWs and used chemical weapons banned by the Geneva Conventions. According to historians Yoshiaki Yoshimi and Kentaro Awaya, the Imperial Japanese Army began "full-scale" use of chemical weapons like nausea gas in 1938 and later used mustard gas against both Kuomintang and Communist forces.
'Rain of ruin from the air'
On July 26, 1945, a formal warning was issued to Japan calling for unconditional surrender or risk facing "prompt and utter destruction". On August 6, US forces dropped a uranium bomb on the city of Hiroshima. In calling again on Japan to surrender, US president Harry S. Truman warned: "If they do not now accept our terms, they may expect a rain of ruin from the air the like of which has never been seen on this earth." Three days later the United States dropped a plutonium implosion bomb on the city of Nagasaki.
Japan announced its surrender to the Allies on August 15, less than a week after Nagasaki was bombed. The country signed the official Instrument of Surrender that ended World War II on September 2.
An estimated 70,000 people died in the initial blast at Hiroshima, while total deaths from the resulting fallout and radiation probably surpassed 100,000, according to figures from the US Department of Energy. Up to 40,000 were killed instantly when Nagasaki was bombed, with tens of thousands more dying as a direct result of the bombing in the years following. Many died from the effect of burns or radiation sickness as well as malnutrition after their cities were reduced to rubble.
Most of the dead were civilians, although Hiroshima was a significant industrial and military centre that housed several military units. Nagasaki was one of the largest seaports in southern Japan and was of strategic importance due to its role in the production of ordnance, military equipment and ship-building.
Japanese governments have expressed remorse for the country's wartime actions in the past, but the Abe administration is often seen as marking a return to Japan's more nationalist tendencies.
Historian Sven Saaler of Tokyo's Sophia University told AP earlier this week that, under the circumstances, a US apology might be inappropriate.
"In particular right now, when Japan has a government that is ... backpedaling in terms of apologising for the war, if now the US apologised, that [would be] a weird signal," Saaler said.
While Obama won't apologise for the use of nuclear weapons, he will stress the importance of eliminating them, White House officials said. Obama has stated that one of his goals was to "seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons".
Speaking on Tuesday, Prime Minister Abe said that an apology wasn't necessary and that he would like to make Obama's visit an "occasion for the US and Japan to mourn all of the victims [of the atomic bombings] together".


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iii. Trickling Filters: It is simple and relatively inexpensive device consisting of 8-12 feet deep bed of stones at the surface of which the liquid sewage is sprayed either by a series of sprinklers or by a rotating sprinkler. The spraying is done intermittently to permit the proper aeration in between the stones to maintain the aerobic condition. The stones become coated with a film of microorganisms that oxidize the organic matter in wastewater as it seeps slowly through the bed. Thus, at the bottom of the filter, relatively clear water is collected that is drained off. Sewage may be passed through two or more trickling filters or recirculated many times through the same filter. The drawback of this system is that nutrient overload may lead to excess microbial slime, reducing the aeration and percolation rates and it becomes necessary to renew the filter bed (Fig. 17.3).
Fig. 17.3 Trickling filter device.
iii. Rotating Biological Contractors (Discs): This system consists of a set of 2-3 m diameter rotating discs (1-2 rpm) made up of wood, metal or plastic that are oriented vertically to the direction of flow of wastewater and are partially submerged in the water. The microbial film adhering to the disc decomposes the organic matter in the wastewater aerobically where the rotation of discs provides aeration. The microbial film grows to a thickness that prevents the nutrients to reach the inner microbial cells leading to their death and detachment that can removed by settling. It has also high BOD removal efficiency, requiring less space and energy for rotating the discs but requires higher initial investment (Fig.17.4).
Fig. 17.4 Rotating biological contractor unit.
(b) ANAEROBIC DECOMPOSITION
These digestors, though, are slower but they save energy. (Large-sca1e anaerobic digestors are primarily used for processing of sewage sludge and for the treatment of some very high industrial effluents having very high BOD).
(i) Septic Tank: This type of disposal system is simplest and is widely used in rural areas by individual families where public sewers are not available. It is made up of metal or concrete chamber below the ground level to which all the domestic wastes flow. Here, the wastewater is retained long enough to permit limited anaerobic digestion of various organic materials by anaerobic bacteria to produce simpler chemicals and gases, like H2S, CH4, CO2 and H2 and the residual solids settle to the bottom of the tank. This water has still high BOD and is odourous. The clarified effluent from the tank is disposed on under the soil surface (leaching field) through perforated pipes where dissolved organic matter undergoes oxidative biodegradation. The process does not eliminate pathogenic microorganisms. The undecomposed solid, called called sludge, is pumped out periodically to prevent clogging of tank and the drain field (leaching ground). After dying, the sludge can be used as manure (Fig.17.5).
Fig.17.5 Septic tank device
(i) Inhoff Tank: It is an improved design of septic tank with a a separate settling compartment from where the stabilized solids are removed (from the bottom of the tank) (Fig.17.6).
(ii) Tertiary Treatment: This is mainly the chemical treatment to remove the turbidity due to presence of nutrients and, being expensive, generally applied when the wastewater is to be used for drinking purpose and rarely for the disposal purpose. The inorganic salts in water after secondary treatment may stimulate growth of aquatic plant life, e.g. algae. Some of these salts can be removed by chemical treatments, e.g.
addition of alum that induces the precipitation of phosphate salts, which can be settled out. Activated carbon filters are used to remove non-biodegradable organic pollutants from secondary treated industrial effluents. NH4+ can be removed at high pH by volatilization as NH3 (but it can return through rainfall again). The pathogens can be killed by treatment of water by chlorine (2-5 ppm hypochlorite or Cl2 gas)
that is most commonly practised, UV radiation or O3. Chlorination by adding hypochlorous acid (HOCI) can also remove NH3
Fig.17.6 Section of an Imhoff tank.
Hypochlorite is used as Ca(OCl)2 or NaOCI. The Cl2 gas reacts with H2O to produce hypochlorous acid and hypochloric acid that are the actual disinfectants as they are strong oxidizing agents. O3 as disinfectant doer not result in the synthesis of the carcinogens, like trichloromethane compounds, as produced in chlorination, but being expensive is used in USA and Europe.
Toxic products associated with microbial biopolymer matrix can be removed along with the microbial biomass.
Processes similar to microbial mining are being considered to reduce the heavy metals. Many organisms produce acids, e.g., (H2S04) produced by Thiobacillus, that solubilize the heavy metals, that can be leached from the sludge. These heavy metals can be chemically precipitated from the leachate and they are either reprocessed for use or permanently immobitized.
(i) Sludge Treatment: The settled or screened out solid waste from the primary treatment (sludge) and the activated sludge (solid waste containing large amount of microbial biomass is digested in a tank: mainly anaerobically to reduce its odour, volume and pathogens.
Under anaerobic condition, organism, like Desulfovibrio desulfuricons reduce SO42- to S2- (H2S). Thiobacillus denitrificans NO3– to N2 (denitrification), where SO42- and NO3– act as acceptor of electrons instead of O2 in anaerobic respiration. The methanogenic bacteria produce CH4. Thus, soluble substances and various gases, like about 70% CH4, 25% CO2, H2 and N2 are produced. This gas mixture can be used as fuel and the sludge obtained after digestion can be used as manure after drying in sun. The sludge can also be landfilled or aerobically composted. Because of noxious odour, these digestors should be constructed at a sufficient distance from the residential areas (Fig. 17.7).
Fig. 17.7 Anaerobic digestor for sewage sludge.
Fig. 17.8 Sewage treatment system.
2. Biological Filters to Clean the Air
Biofilters are used for the treatment of gases and they are made up of some solid support (that is suitable for the growth of microorganisms, e.g. peat) or a liquid-gas system, where, the liquid and gas phases are separated by a membrane containing appropriate microorganisms. The polluted gas is passed through the biofilter where various microorganisms convert the hazardous gaseous pollutants into non-hazardous compounds.
3. Solid Waste Management
The various kinds of solid wastes, like municipal waste and sludge, agricultural, mining, industrial wastes, may be biodegradable (paper, food wastes, sewage wastes, etc.) or non-biodegradable glass, plastic, many insecticides, etc) and their disposal is problematic. The reduction in the use of various resources (e.g minimum packaging, avoiding disposable items, plastic bags, etc.), reusing some of the products (e.g. fly ash or the fine particulate matter produced mainly from thermal power plants can be used for the construction of roads and bricks; glass and plastic bottles, etc.) and recycling of many items (e.g. paper, plastic, glass. metal items, etc.) may not only help in the reduction of pollution but also in reduced consumption of energy. Incineration, the burning of combustible municipal waste in a furnace in the presence of O2 at very high temperature (815oC for 1 hour) producing CO2 and H2O, though reduces the volume of the waste to 90% but generates CO2 and other gases and fly ash in the air. Some of the safer technologies used for the management of solid wastes are:
(i) Landfill Technology: Landfills are gigantic anaerobic bioreactors used for the management of solid wastes that can be decomposable or non-decomposable. This is simple and cheaper way to handle solid wastes. The solid wastes are dumped into the low lying and low value lands. Everyday's waste is compressed and covered with a layer of soil. Thus, a large heap of wastes is made. The indigenous microorganisms in the waste break down the complex organic matter into simpler substances anaerobically. Finally the methanogenic bacteria generate CH4 that commences after several months to years of waste disposal and reaching to a peak value, gradually declines after several (5-10) years. Thus, the organic content undergoes slow anaerobic decomposition over a period of 30-50 years. This CH4 can be used as fuel by inserting a pipeline into the site. The landfill sites should be airtight (to prevent the escape of CH4 that is a greenhouse gas and other gases into the air) and water tight (to prevent the leaching of toxic substances into underground water) to protect the environment and this technology, if improperly managed, can be unsightly, smelly and unhygienic. Toxic wastes (like heavy metals, insecticides, etc.) or toxic products generated by anaerobic decomposition can create problems by run off to nearby water bodies and lands, seepage into the underground aquifers and by affecting the microbial decomposition in the landfill site. Therefore, the sites should be properly constructed with impermeable lining at the bottom to avoid leahates to damage surrounding land and water. The underground aquifer contaminated with leachates remains polluted for many years because of slow movement, minimal self- purification process, low microorganisms, 02 and nutrients of underground water-table. Remedial actions are inadequate and expensive, e.g., pumping out the aquifer followed by its treatment or in situ treatment by oxygenation or nutrient supplementation. Therefore, prevention of groundwater contamination is the most effective remedy. An impermeable clay cap prevents water infiltration and leaching of pollutants. The recovery of CH4 needs investment for installation of collection pipes and pumping systems and for sealing of landfill to prevent the escape of methane. Finally, the leachate collected at the bottom can be pumped out for treatment (Fig. 17.9).
The limited numbers of suitable disposal sites in urban areas are rapidly becoming filled. Premature construction on landfill sites may result in structural damage to the buildings because of subsidence and explosion hazard due to seepage of CH4 into the basements. CH4 seepage may also damage planting on disposal site,
Fig. 17.9 Landfill technology.
(i) Composting: It is an attractive alternative to landfills for the decomposition of solid, domestic and agricultural wastes and has environmental advantages (landfill operations may have lower costs but the groundwater contamination due to land filling, composting process is favoured). Only organic wastes are sorted for decomposition by separate collection of garbage. The waste can he ground and mixed with sewage sludge (that may contain heavy metals, like Cd, Cr, etc.) or wood chips and composted. Traditionally at small scale, most of the solid wastes are composted. In urban areas and due to large-scale agriculture the other treatments of wastes are expensive. It involves the aerobic microbial decomposition by bacteria and fungi of solid organic wastes from domestic, agriculture and food industry, which gets converted into sanitary human-like material. The waste is converted into huge piles of is dumped into a pit lined with a straw or wood chips and is covered with dried leaves or a layer of soil to control odour. The waste is watered once or twice a week to
keep it moist (50-60% moisture is optimum as excessive moisture interferes with aeration) and the aeration is provided by regular mechanical turning (after every 14 days) of the waste to facilitate proper oxidation of organic matter into CO2, H2O and organic byproducts. Self-heating raises the temperature to 55-60°C in 2-3 days and then, thermophilic microorganisms are involved in the aerobic decomposition. In well-aerated or oxygenated piles the temperature may rise to 70-80°C. Thereafter, the temperature declines gradually and mesophilic microorganisms now decompose the organic matter. These alternate thermophilic and mesophilic phases are repeated several times. The high temperatures thus attained help in killing of most of the pathogens present in fecal matter and sewage sludge. Aeration or turning may be adjusted to prevent the excessive heating. Periodic water spraying can also help to reduce the temperature. Inside the heap, O2 concentration is about 5 times lesser than the atmospheric concentration. C:N ratio should be greater than 4:1 (lower N restricts microbial decomposition, whereas, excessive N leads to volatilization of NH3 to lower the fertilizer value of compost and also cause odour problem).
Composting is completed in about 3 weeks. Uniform and more stable compost can be obtained more rapidly in the bioreactors in about 2-4 days, which requires curing for
about a month (Fig. 17.10). Compost from toxic wastes can be used in parks and gardens to prevent heavy metal and other types of toxicity in foods.
Fig. 17.10 A heap of compost
Problem of bad odour arises due to the presence of various S and N containing organic compounds in the waste. The escape of various gases produced during decomposition can be inhibited by allowing the decomposition in closed chambers and using biofilters or gas scrubbers. The compost thus, obtained is reduced in bulk and used as manure for soil improvement and cultivation of mushroom (Agaricus bisporus). Presence of high amount of cellulose and lignin (e.g. in wood, straw, etc.), which are relatively resistant to decomposition, slow down the compost formation.
Solid waste can be inoculated with commercially available cultures of earthworm, which help in the breakage of large pieces of organic waste into smaller particles to be easily decomposed by the indigenous bacteria and fungi in about 45 days. The compost thus obtained is rich in nutrients and is called vermicompost (Fig.17.11)
Fig. 17.11 Verrnicompost production.
4. Bioremediation
Bioremediation (or biotreatment or bioreclamation or biorestoration) is a new technology and involves application of biological system (mostly microorganisms) forthe treatment of various hazardous wastes, particularly the non-biodegradable ones (xenobiotic). These microorganisms either degrade and detoxify the pollutant or accumulate them in their body. Two types of bioremedial technologies, which employ generally a group of microorganisms, can be applied:
i. After prolonged exposure to a particular pollutant, some of the indigenous microbes develop ability to utilize or degrade that pollutant due to spontaneous mutation or acquiring some plasmid DNA from other microorganisms by conjugation. At the affected site, if some of the nutrients are limiting for the growth of such microorganisms, the addition of such nutrients (like urea (N), single super phosphate (P), etc.) may help in the promotion of growth of these microbes. This technology was successfully applied by using fertilizers to clean the oil spillage in the ocean due to accident of the oil tanker Exxon Valdez at the Alaskan beaches in 1989 where the oil was decomposed to less harmful products that became the part of the food chain. Similarly, the soils contaminated with highly toxic industrial recalcitrant chemical, polychlorinated biphenyls, can be dechlorinated by the microbial activity.
ii. In another technology, if the population of the indigenous microbes involved in cleaning the pollutant is limiting, the microbial samples are isolated from the polluted site and cultivated artificially in bioreactors. The biomass thus, obtained is used for the reinoculation of the polluted site to build up the desired population size. This technology has been found to be successful at some polluted sites.
iii. Some microbial cultures are commercially available for this purpose, e.g., the white rot fungus, Phanaerochyte chrysosporium, helps in the degradation of lignocellulosic materials, Pseudomonas putida can cure oil spills, Pseudomonas fluorescens biodegrades HCN. In this approach the introduced microbes must be able to survive and compete with the indigenous microbes in the new environment.
iv. Alternatively, the microorganisms may be genetically engineered to develop the ability to degrade the pollutant molecules and at present, the research is in progress in this field and would need years to be widely used for the environmental applications.
Though, the technology is slow as compared to physical clean up methods and is applicable only in certain environmental conditions only for certain chemicals and sometimes, the added chemicals may contaminate the environment, it is simple and cheaper and leads to the conversion of toxic substances to non-toxic ones.
5. Microbial Mining
By using certain microbes, e.g. Thiobacillus ferrooxidans, many commercially important metals like Cu, Au (gold), U, Fe, etc. can be extracted economically from the poor grade ores containing very small quantity of metal sulphides (ores) (the conventional metallurgical processes would be uneconomical with such ores). Though, this method of metal extraction is slow, it does not affect the environment (no evolution of NO2 and SO2 as in convetional metallurgical operations). The heap of the crushed ore (ex situ extraction), e.g. CuS, or the mining site by drilling the hole (in situ extraction) is inoculated with the desired bacterium, e.g. Thiobacillus ferrooxidans (a chemoautotroph that derives its energy by the oxidation of sulphides to sulphates) along with some nutrients are pumped into the hole. This leads to the oxidation of S2– in CuS ore to SO42- (H2SO4) and water soluble CuSO4following a series of reactions is formed while percolating through the orepile by the bacterium:
The CuSO4 thus, collected from the bottom of the ore heap (or pumped out from mine site) is drained to recovery plant where it is allowed to flow through the surface of Fe metal leading to the production of pure Cu metal and FeSO4 due to displacement reaction:
CuSO4+ Fe → FeSO4+ Cu↓
Alternatively, many microbes (e.g. bacteria Bacillus and Streptococcus, algae Chlorella and Anabaena, etc.) can accumulate inside their cells the desired rare metals (e.g. Mn, Au, U, etc) by growing them in very dilute metal solution (e.g. many industrieal effluents) from such microbial biomass, the metal can be extracted economically.
6. Desulphurisation of Coal
Generally the coal contains 0.2-8.0 % S but, many poor quality coals contain higher amount of S, sometimes exceeding 11 %. Burning of such poor quality S-containing coal leads to the release of SOx into the atmosphere. Such coal can be cured by inoculating the mine sites through drilling the hole with the desired microbe (e.g. Thiobacillus ferrooxidans) and water. After microbial growth the S2- (mainly FeS) is be oxidised to SO42- that is leached out.
7. Biocontrol Agents
Discussed in the chapter "Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry".
8. Biofertilizers
Discussed in the chapter "Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry".
1. Write short notes on the following:
(i)Sewage treatment
(ii) Biofertilizer
(iii)Biocontrol agent
(iv) Recovery of metals by biomining
(v) Anaerobic treatment of wastewater and sewage sludge
(vi) Xenobiotic compounds
(vii) Landfill technology
(viii)Activated sludge treatment
(ix)Treatment of solid wastes
2. Discuss the applications of biotechnology in the field of environment giving suitable examples.
3. Define waste and pollutants. Briefly describe the various sources of wastes and discuss the hazards from them.


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How Landscape Design Can Contribute To Employee Productivity
Employee Productivity and Health
Landscape design is an important part of your business plan and can provide many advantages to a workplace. One of the most subtle and most valuable effects of good landscape design is the boost in employee productivity and health. This is for a few reasons.
Seeing Natural Environments Improves Thinking
According to an article published in the American Psychological Association, viewing nature rests the mind from the strain of what is called directed attention. This is the type of attention that people use when they do tasks that require a lot of focus, and it is different from the fascination type of attention that people use when they look at nature. After resting the mind, people can focus better. Studies have also found that people can remember better and pay attention longer by 20% when they are exposed to nature.
For instance, there was a study done where people were given 40 minutes of attentionally exhausting tasks and then relaxed in different ways, including a walk in a nature preserve. The people who were exposed to nature did better at a standard proofreading test than the people who were assigned to other types of relaxation.
It isn't necessary for your employees to work in a nature preserve to get these benefits, either: being able to see or take their lunch in a professionally done landscape that has plants in it will improve their focus.
Exposure To Nature Improves Mental Health
Studies show that people who spend more time in nature feel more hopeful and often have better mental health. They feel more energetic, less stress, and less depression when outside. Being able to see a good landscape from their windows can help employees feel better about work in general and enjoy their job more.
The association between exposure to nature seems particularly strong when it comes to depression, which is a condition that can definitely sap your productivity. A study on twins that was published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health found that people were less likely to feel depressed if they had ready access to green spaces.
The improvement in mental health can be indirect, too. For instance, the effect of tiring your mind from using directed attention increases impulsivity, distractibility, and irritability. This can increase the stress on everyone who has to work with the person who is fatigued. Many studies have shown that increased stress leads to increased absenteeism and decreased productivity.
Green Environments Improve Physical Health
There is a documented association between green spaces and improved health outcomes. This might have something to do with nature's association with lowered stress levels. Lessening the stress people feel is known to have positive health effects such as improving sleep and making it easier to recover from illnesses.
For instance, there is a famous study that a director at Texas A&M University conducted on patients who were recovering from abdominal surgery. The director surveyed the recovery of patients who were given a view of trees from their window and the recovery of patients who were given a view of brick walls from their window, and he found that the patients who could see the trees recovered faster, didn't request as much pain medication, and had fewer complications.
But beyond the effects of reducing stress, green landscapes may encourage physical activity. Taking a walk around the campus at lunch is a more attractive idea if the path that you will walk on is hedged with pretty flowers. Increased physical activity promotes general wellness, which in turn boosts attendance at work and the ability to concentrate on the tasks at hand.
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Mixed Berry Jam Recipe:
Any fruit you want/have.
I used blackberries, raspberries , strawberries, and blueberries.
Add the fruit to a bowl. Mark off where the fruit comes up to.
In a large pot add fruit.
Cook fruit over medium/high heat.
Fill bowl up with sugar to fill line. I use a little less sugar than all the way up to the line.
Add sugar and 1/4 c. of lemon juice to pot. Stir.
Bring to a boil. Continue stirring until sugar dissolves.
The pectin in lemon juice will help the jam set. I cooked it for 20 minutes and mine set up over night.
If you are worried about your jam setting, add part of the lemon peel when adding the lemon juice. A lemon wedge size does just fine.
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He was such an eager beaver
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Don't you love it when you stumble upon something so much fun you have to share it with everyone? That happened to me today. I was looking for the etymology of the word plummet, a lovely word if I don't say so myself, and I found the answer using the Merriam-Webster online dictionary. Plummet comes from Middle English plomet, from Anglo-French plumet, plomet, from plum lead, lead weight. That was cool, I had used a plumb bob on an archeological dig many summers ago and always loved those two words together, but I digress. On the same page as the origin of the word plum was the heading Other Civil Engineering Terms. What a grand addition to a dictionary – other civil engineering terms. I immediately clicked on cantilever to see if I could get even more civil engineering terms, alas, they were all the same, but I did discover another wondrous option – Rhymes with. Come on, admit it you too have always wanted to know what rhymes with cantilever. I was so tickled with my new found knowledge, I made up a rhyme. It isn't very good, but what the heck, I got to use eager beaver, cantilever and wide receiver. I hope this post makes you a true believer.


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text: Mjly is Yljm's love life. She is her sisters, her mothers, herselves and her ancestors. But poor old Yljm can never be a mother or a sister—just himself!lonesome heartsBy RUSS WINTERBOTHAMIllustrated by Kelly FreasIt seems unnecessary to say that my story began a long time ago, but I do not intend to be subtle. I am not clever and my lying is unpolished, almost amateurish. So I certainly could not be subtle, which requires both cleverness and an ability to tell the truth and a lie in the same breath.Let us turn back the clock a few ages. I was lying in the sun thinking of love. I understand that you human beings have an aversion to biological discussion, so I will not go into detail. But I must remind you that my love life is quite different from yours, for I am from another planet. At the time under discussion, I was most deeply in love.My heart's desire had no shape, the lovely creature. She had no intelligence, the divine soul. But she was the greatest bit of protoplasm in any galaxy you could name. By our standards, I probably might be called handsome. I was young and healthy. I had all of my genes and chromosomes. My color was the dirty green that is associated with beauty.The sun warmed my body and the tidal undulation of my planet's surface rocked me gently. And then she came into my life. She floated gently in the breeze, her dainty figure held aloft by a mere hint of levitation. Sparks of static electricity shot from her tender cilia so brightly that I was forced to exude a layer of protective fibre to protect my visual buds. She sucked a deep breath of cyanic gas into her pulmonary pouch and spoke to me sweetly with a voice like distant thunder."My dear Yljm, the world is coming to an end."I could not believe her, for she had no intelligence. She only loved to talk. "Perhaps," I said, "but not today.""Very soon, then," said she. Her name was Mjly.I watched her with patronizing amusement. The static electricity showed that she was nervous and upset, but people often get nervous and upset over trivial matters. "Now, how," I reasoned, "could our world come to an end? The other planet has gone on for thousands of years without colliding with us. We circle it, in fact.""No," Mjly said, "that is not our doom. Actually our world will not cease to exist. Life will end here, that is all.""Ah," I said. "Our atmosphere is escaping into space." I sucked air, viciously. True, the air was thin. True, the atmosphere was escaping. But there would be breathable amounts for many thousands of centuries yet to come."Not the air. The food is all gone. Things we eat have ceased to exist."I levitated myself and looked out over the throbbing land. A few years ago, this land had been covered with vegetation. I had come to take vegetation so much for granted that I'd ceased to notice it. Now it was gone. There were no round fruits growing from tender grasses, no tubers dangling from the fungus trees, no legume vines sprawling over the rocks. Everywhere lay desert, barren dunes shaking their crests with tidal motion.I lowered myself to the ground and dug my big fibrosities into the sod. No green leaves grew there beneath the surface. The soil was dead. "This will seriously interfere with our future, Mjly," I said."We might eat each other," she replied, "but then there would be no one left.""No one? There are many others here.""The others are dying," said Mjly, blinking her otic nerves eerily. "We soon will be the only ones left."It was indeed a senseless thing to do, to die just because there was no means of going on living. But I must admit that I was tempted for a moment. But I hung onto myself, for there was Mjly, and as long as she lived, there was a reason for me to live too."It's not a cheerful prospect," I said, "but I suppose death by starvation is the best way out. We will face death as we have lived, cheerfully and fortuitously.""And why should we die, when there is another world so close?" she asked."Are you suggesting interplanetary flight, my dear?" I was amused again, even though there was little enough left to be amused at.She crinkled her sense of smell in reply, and I realized I was not being amused at the right time. Anchoring herself by magnetic processes, she began to weave the atmosphere delicately with her taste-bud tendrils. Quickly she hollowed the air molecules into a reflective mirror, and brought it to focus on our neighboring world. I levitated myself into a position so that I could look into the mirror.The near planet was quite satisfactory. It was the one you know as the earth. It was young. It was green. Huge fern-like plants grew abundantly on its surface. It was full of food. And near."The trip could be made by levitation," Mjly said.I hung back. "Animals might live there. We'd be devoured.""I am not afraid," she said."We might not get hungry for a time. Let us linger here awhile. Later when we get desperate, there will be time enough for interplanetary flight." I hated the thought of stuffing myself full of air enough to last for the long trip.Mjly lowered her visual buds. "I am going to become a mother," she said."Go then, and become a mother. I'll stay here till I get hungry and then join you."Mjly unflexed her sense of touch and I felt sorry for her. "If I could be sure," I said, "that no wild animals live on the earth, I'd go sooner."She snapped her sense of balance in happiness. "I will go first," said she. "If everything is pleasant and safe, I will return and let you know."I nodded my otic nerves and off she went.As you human beings are doubtless aware, space levitation is quite complicated, but not beyond accomplishment. Once you are able to reach the speed of escape the rest is easy. But Mjly was young and strong and soon she had disappeared from sight traveling at a tremendous velocity. I followed her as long as I could with the telescope and then I lowered myself to the tidal crest of a nearby sand dune and lost myself in metaphysical thoughts.Almost half a year later I realized that Mjly had been gone longer than I expected. Either she had been eaten by wild animals on the earth, or she had forgotten me.I was beginning to get lonesome and in a few more months I would get hungry. At the thought of enduring two such excruciating pains at a single time, I decided to risk my life. I would travel through space to the earth and try to find my beloved.As you may have guessed, the planet on which we had been living is the one you now know as the Moon, and the distance to the earth is comparatively small. The sand dunes now have hardened and the tidal sway of its surface can be felt only slightly. The moon no longer turns on its axis and it has no sweetly scented cyanide in its atmosphere. It has no atmosphere of any sort. But it stands now as it did when I left it, glorious in death. Since I departed, no living thing has trod its soil.My scientific sense instinctively came to the rescue as I approached the earth. I felt a strong gravity wrenching at my vitals and so instead of trying reverse levitation, I spread my processes so that the atmosphere caught in the folds of my skin and I came floating gently down to the ground without harm.The earth was much as it had appeared through the molecule telescope. It was covered with green vegetation, good, rich, nourishing stuff. And there was enough to feed Mjly and me for a million years.There were no animals of any sort. Again I went to my scientific sense for the answer. I realized that while vegetable life was far advanced, animal life had yet to appear. Mjly was the first of this type of life ever to set foot on terrestrial soil.But where was she? On the moon, I could often locate her a thousand miles away by a simple radio call. Although the earth was much larger than the moon, I did not doubt that she was within a thousand miles. So I generated power and issued a call.I waited for the response. It came feebly to my antenna.Using my sense of direction, I pushed through the vegetation in search of her. I did not levitate, because the feebleness of her call indicated she might be hurt and on the ground. Besides, levitation is much more difficult on the earth than on the moon.The reply came stronger to my next call and I sensed through seven of my senses that she was near. She was on the ground, probably injured, which explained why she had not returned as she had promised.I came to a patch of wilderness, a great marshy plain. In the middle of this swamp was a crater, like those caused by meteors, a deep, ugly scar in the mud. I shuddered at the thought that my darling Mjly might have landed there. Her weaker scientific sense might not have given her the cue to use her skin as a parachute and she might have made the fatal mistake of trying to reverse-levitate."Mjly!" I called, speaking aloud now. "Mjly! Where are you?""Yljm! I am here!"Yes, the voice came from the crater. Gliding to its rim, I looked down. A pool of water lay on the bottom. A greenish scum covered the surface. The scum moved with a million tiny wriggles."Yes, Yljm," came Mjly's voice. "It is I. But I am no longer one being." And her voice sounded like a million tiny chirps joined together. "I landed with such force that I came apart. Now each of my body cells lives a life of its own. And now and then each cell grows fat and becomes two. I am my sisters, I ..."Let's not be subtle about it. Mjly was a microbe, the beginning of animal life on the earth. She lives today, she is and always will be her sisters, her mothers, herselves and her ancestors. But there are few ancestors, for microbes do not die—just part of themselves die.And I do not die. For I crept away into a hole in the ground, where I will live forever. I do not starve, for roots reach me here. But I miss my love life with Mjly. I can never be a mother or a sister. I will always be me, a lonesome old bem.... THE ENDTranscriber's Note:This etext was produced from If Worlds of Science Fiction July 1954. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and typographical errors have been corrected without note. Two occurrences of the word 'visory' have been amended to visual.


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Olives / Sourdough bread / House crisps
Monkfish scampi , tartare sauce €8
Duck liver pate, chutney and sourdough toast €7
Homemade black pudding, white beans and fried egg €6.50
Charcuterie plate, pickles and toast €9
Grilled Broccoli, caesar mayonnaise, crispy ham €6
Roaring Bay mussels, curry sauce and coriander €8
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Customers are welcome to bring their own celebration cake however we may add €2.50 service charge per person
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Local Shiitake and Spinach on Sourdough Toast €8.50
Roast Beets, Walnut Pesto, Pickle Quince and Pecorino €8
Fivemiletown Goats Cheese, Piquillo Pepper, Honey and Pine Nuts €7
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Bronzing Blunders: Bronzer Masterclass
On my way to work, I watched a lovely young lady, with a lovely pale complextion, smother herself in a deep terra cotta, all over her face, and then use the same oversized brush to apply a bright pink blush. I was saddened by this sight of a lovely skintone painted dark pinky orange.
To be clear, Bronzer is not a necessary step, I use bronzer to warm up a skin tone, to give a sun kissed, healthy glow, but never to change the colour of someone's skin.
I use 2 techniques to Bronze:
1. Warm Tan: I go along the whole hairline, under the cheekbone and on the neck a bit in the depressions on either side of the throat. This gives a slightly contoured effect, illuminating the centre of the face but giving an overall bronzed look.
2. 1) Sun-Kissed: I mimic where the sun actually hits: Top of the forehead, top of the cheekbones, the bridge of the nose and the décolleté.
Choosing a texture is the first step. All these products can come in matte, semi matte, glowing or shimmery. Shimmer and glow work better with a Sun Kissed look, while the Matter finishes are better for a Warm Tan.
Liquid: It is a great option for a more blended, natural look. Try NARS Laguna Liquid Bronzer or Armani Liquid Summer or from the master of watercolours: Daniel Sandler Liquid Golden Glow
Cream: This tends to be a slightly more opaque option, and is best used at the tops of the cheeks, try Cosmetics a la Carte Bare Bronze or Vapour Solar stick or You can even layer a cream with a powder blush or bronzer, for a more sophisticated 'makeup' effect.
Pressed Powder: By far the most common bronzing product available from nearly every company on earth! The classics are the Guerlain Terracotta series, but my favourite is the sadly discontinued Shu Uemura Light. Pressed Bronzers can have a lot or little pigment and can be quite sheer or provide quite good coverage.
Colour selection is most important as this type of Bronzer tends to sit on top of the skin, but can be used as an elegant finisher, like the Hourglass Cosmetics Ambient bronzer.
I have seen products marketed as Bronzer that vary in colour from almost Ivory to a deep Rusty Brown. Choosing the best shade can be a challenge. I recommend going for a warm tone, more toward a Yellow/Golden than Orange/Bronze, with a more Neutral undertone if you are unsure. You want to mimic the effects of a suntan, not a sun burn! If you are slightly more olive or yellow toned, a bit of pink or coral in the bronzer is fine.
Some of the darker Bronzers almost have Plum undertones, which I would be careful with, but do look good on darker olive and Asian Skin tones. I sometimes just use a darker foundations to Bronze because some of the more red or plum undertones to darker bronzer can go terribly wrong.
I always recommend if you can try a product before buying it, check it in daylight and also wear it for a few hours to see how it "lives". Some Bronzers can get "muddy" as they blend with the natural oils of the skin or are the wrong undertone. Happy Bronzing!
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Episode 005 - Diet & Supplements for longevity
Author Saylor Storm asks molecular biologist, Dr. Bill Andrews of Sierra Sciences, about the best nutrition and supplements for keeping our telomeres long and healthy.
Dr. Bill Andrews is a molecular biologist and gerontologist whose career has centered around what he calls, "curing the disease of human aging." Dr. Andrews is the founder and President of Sierra Sciences, a biotechnology company.
To find out more about Dr. Andrews and his work, you can go to SierraSciences.com, watch his many youtube videos, read his book, "Curing Aging", or watch a documentary about his work called, The Immortalists.


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The jury in the trial of a Mayo man, accused of killing his baby son, has been told there are ten inconsistencies in what the accused says happened on the day his son died.
40 year old John Tighe of Lavallyroe in Ballyhaunis denies murdering six month old Joshua in June 2013 by placing two tissues in his mouth.
In his closing speech, the prosecuting barrister Paul Murray began by saying this is a very sad case but told the jurors they had to be dispassionate and use their logic.
He said the accused John Tighe says his baby died because he left him unattended and when he came back his sixth month old had pushed two tissues in his mouth and had choked on them.
But the prosecution said there are ten inconsistencies with the various accounts Mr Tighe gave about what happened that day.
The jury was told the baby died the day after his mother indicated on Facebook that she was in a new relationship.
The prosecution said 'this is a lady who the accused has texted up to 15 hundred times a week in the past.'
The jurors were also told the scene of the death was 'neat' for someone who was in a panic to try and save his son's life.


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Coastal Chaos
Season 1 • Episode 2
The six remaining people, each with a unique superhuman skill, take on the next natural obstacle course - the coastline. Traversing gigantic trees, treacherous cliffs & bodies of water will they conquer the dangerous shore or end the challenge early?
41 min|TV-PG|Premiered 07/14/2016


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What have you learned this week?
This week we have given a broad introduction to exercise prescription for the treatment of disease and you have:
- Examined different ways of measuring physical activity
- Explored exercise prescription in various clinical populations
- Reflected on how exercise prescription is prioritised for different clinical cohorts
Thinking about these elements:
- How will you apply what you have learned this week with your own patients, or in your own daily life?
At the end of Week 2, Cuisle and Aine will be reflecting on your comments in this step. Check back on Friday 29 April for an update.
Update: 16:06 29/04/2016 Cuisle Forde
Thank you all for your contributions over the last two weeks. It is hard to believe that this course is coming to an end already! This week we have examined and discussed the role of exercise for brain health, methods of measuring aspects of fitness and exercise as a treatment tool for patients with various chronic diseases. We have thoroughly enjoyed reading your comments and questions. As you can imagine the area of exercise in the prevention and treatment of disease is extensive and we have not had time to cover all aspects of this growing area in this course. We hope you have enjoyed learning about exercise over the course of this course, and with the summer coming that you enjoy staying active!
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By hijacking the symbols of success, the system controls what everyone wants, and tries to do in their lives. In this way, the system enslaves the masses by brainwashing.
David Icke explains this in this video. Really, he can see what is going on in society. He has pulled the wool off his eyes.


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Baton Rouge Highland Road Engagement Photography Session/
Congrats to Meagan + Joshua!
I can't wait to document this darling couple's wedding day in April! Being a wedding photographer is SO MUCH FUN!!! Working with all sorts of dynamic couples, helping them to document their love beautifully, and getting to know the details that make their worlds up!
Getting Meg and Joshua's images for their Engagement Session was nothing short of amazing!!! Let me tell you, Joshua doesn't have a serious bone in his body and it made for a very fun and lively photo session! We went to Highland Rd park area to shoot their shots because she mentioned liking outdoors and pretty areas! Haha... I just ran with it all and we spent lots of time at LSUs Hilltop Arboretum.
The fall colors were on point and the weather was close to cold- as close to cold as Louisiana gets- so it made for an awesome time for all of us!
Joshua has that awesome bulldog look that I think my hubs inherited as well!!! It goes awesome with his bearded manly face!
Engagements are probably a favorite thing for me to shoot. It's so fun to get to know the couple's that have trusted me with their greatest day and I love hearing the stories of how they met, fell in love and the proposal.
For these two, it was all history after first meeting. Love at the first sight kind of deal.
And the big question was hard to keep quiet!!! Meagan was hook, line and sinker the moment they began dating! And Joshua made sure he blessed his girl's socks off!
So here's to LOVE and finding the one that makes all of our days that much better!!


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If Each Tear of Self-Pity Were a Buck, I Could Pay Off My Harvest Bills.
If October is to be remembered for the incessant slog of harvest, then November's notable for my unrelenting and freakish bad luck. First we stared down a major sewage catastrophe, like we peered into the crawl space with a flashlight and stared into a murky pool of raw sewage. Four plumbers declined the job before the fifth called in a Hazmat crew to suck out the liquid poop and excavate the top 8 inches of dirt saturated by the raw dump. For weeks I'd blamed my kid. His room smelled wretched. I kept thinking, he's only 8 years old, but he already stinks up the whole house. Turns out his room sits atop the lowest point in the crawl space, and a five person family's worth of sewage output had accumulated in a fetid pool under his bedroom. Sometime after our enforced 3 night sojourn at the Hampton Inn while plumbers worked overtime, the first kid succumbed to a school scavenged viral affliction. It was the same fever/ sore throat constellation as his table partner, who'd been out sick from school mere days before. During the ensuing weeks, each of my three kids proffered the same weary "Mom, my throat hurts," while never actually overlapping with a sibling. It's an algorithmic anomaly not to be reproduced until spring fever 2012. And oh yeah, my kid broke his arm at school. I'd been in a lunch meeting and forgotten my cell phone in the car. While I was nibbling chevre, the school was leaving frantic messages as my son writhed in pain and apologized to the school nurse for crying. My shame was wrenching. For penitence, I'd schlepped him down to the ER at Oakland Children's Hospital. That's right. We walked into an Oakland ER. Need I elaborate? After that, I thought I was in the clear. With only 48 hours to go until the calendar flipped from November to December, we squeezed in a well visit peds appointment that had been ignored and punted during October harvest. At precisely 3:17 pm, the doc assured me my son was the pinnacle of 8 year old health and shooed us home. Then faster than you can say "shadenfreude," my son awakened at midnight with a high pitched, barky croup cough. Not twelve hours had elapsed between our "well" visit and a brand new bronchitis. We are blessed to wrestle two distinct viruses in the same month. Is this winning?
Of course of all my self-blathering pity is just a front to sequester my real anxieties in some remote, impenetrable cortical recess. December 11 is pinot judgment day.
I've been sluggish about composing tasting notes and dragged my feet on the 2010 tech sheets. Each bottle opened and analyzed has made me retch a little in my mouth. The 2010 pinots are my first big test, my first solo vintage. Last year, I implemented winemaking decisions that others may not have made. Every step in the journey from grape to bottle has been on my watch, my call. And now I'm sending out mass market e-blasts inviting you to judge me. Angst does not sit well with me. Don't you remember what happened to Britney Spears or LiLo? Serious melt down material.
My hope is that all three pinots show brilliantly, or at least there's something for every palate. I made three different pinots as distinct as my three kids. None of them overlapped with their viral hiccups. Why should all three wines taste simply like "cherry?"
(The aforementioned blog title was optioned to Garth Brooks for an upcoming album. He declined since you don't need no stinkin' French wood to make moonshine.)