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Gray & Gold by John Rogers Cox
A study of the book of Micah
The Incomparable God: A Story of Forgiveness & Fidelity
Purpose of Micah
"To call Judah to repentance and hope during the Assyrian crisis and to prepare Judah for the Babylonian exile by announcing God's judgements against sin and his promise of restoration."
-Spirit of the Reformation Study Bible
Available here are two discipleship resources. There is an annotated version of sermon as well as a link to a "PDD Booklet". A PDD Booklet is a study guide which is meant to be used while listening to the sermon. Folks wishing to study the content of the sermon from the book of Micah through out the week will find these resources to be very helpful.
If you have heard the sermon and wish to start at a particular point, the circles to the right of the arrow are aligned with specific points in the sermon. Try hovering your mouse over each point. Notice that handy tags pop up to let take the viewer to that specific place in the sermon. Keep in mind that each week the sermons are slightly different.
The PDD Booklet for each week and the "dots" on the sermon video are aligned to make accessing the various parts of the sermon for further study as convenient as possible.
August 8, 2021
"God's Purifying Judgement"
Micah 1:1-7 PDD Booklet
August 15, 2021
Christ Centered Mourning
Micah 1:8-16 PDD Booklet
August 22, 2021
Finding Hope in the Face of God's Judgment
Micah 2:1-11 PDD Booklet
August 29, 2021
The Shepherd-Breaker
Micah 2:12-13 PDD Booklet
September 5, 2021
Rebuilding Our Own House
Micah 3:1-4 PDD Booklet
September 12,2021
The Test
Micah 3:5-8 PDD Booklet
September 19,2021
The Greatest Prophet
Micah 3:9-12 PDD Booklet
September 26, 2021
Micah 4:1-5 PDD Booklet
October 3, 2021
Micah 4:6-8 PDD Booklet
October 10,2021
The Greatest Prophet
Micah 4:9-5:1 PDD Booklet
October 17, 2021
Micah 5:2-6 PDD Booklet
October 31, 2021
Micah 5:7-15 PDD Booklet
November 7,2021
The Remedy for Spiritual Lethargy
Micah 6:1-8 PDD Booklet
November 21, 2021
Micah 7:8-20 PDD Booklet
What is Pulpit Driven Discipleship?
Discipleship from the pulpit to communities therein pressed into the head, heart and hands of image bearers of God every day
Pulpit Driven Discipleship is the name of a process of discipleship. Discipleship begins on Sunday with the sermon faithfully preached by our pastors then the message of sermon is digested and pressed into the heart throughout the week through prayer reflection and discussion in the home or in smaller discussion groups. It is in this context that life transformation and growth occur. The pastoral leadership team and the Adult Discipleship Ministry Team are excited to walk together this Fall through the message of the Book of Micah. Please prayerfully consider incorporating PDD as your primary means of discipleship. We believe that PDD is appropriate for individuals, couples, families, and groups of all kinds. Director of Adult Discipleship Rob Davis welcomes discussion, questions, and comments of all kinds. Rob Davis 706-252-5216,


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Reports and financials
Reports and financials
Annual and interim financial statements, risk reports and other information about the Bank's results.
Annual and Sustainability Report 2022
The Report provides accessible insight into the Bank's services and operation and details about the great strides made in sustainability in 2022.
Annual and ESG Report 2021
The Report provides accessible insight into the Bank's services and operation and details about the great strides made in sustainability in 2021.
Annual and ESG Report 2020
Landsbankinn's Annual and ESG Report for 2020 reviews the Bank's operation and services in an accessible manner. In 2020, we continued to improve digital services for companies and individuals, responded to unexpected challenges with agility and took important steps toward sustainability.
Landsbankinn's Annual Report 2019
The Annual Report provides an accessible overview of highlights in the Bank's operation in 2019. The report contains information about Landsbankinn's services for individuals and companies, innovative digital services, social responsibility, human resources and gender equality. It also reviews strategy and governance and key points from the annual financial statement, about the Bank's funding and risk management.
Landsbankinn's Annual Report 2018
The Annual Report provides an accessible overview of highlights in the Bank's operation in 2018. Seldom if ever before have there been such significant changes to Landsbankinn's services as in 2018. The Bank launched 20 new digital solutions for individuals and companies. Various transactions that formerly necessitated a physical bank visit can now be taken care of at the customer's leisure. The Annual Report includes an overview of these new solutions, such as Landsbankinn's app, the Bank's card app which allows customers to make payment with their mobiles, and a digital credit assessment and loan application process.
Landsbankinn's Annual Report 2017
The Annual Report provides an overview of highlights in the Bank's 2017 operation. The Annual Report includes information on new emphases in the Bank's strategy, developments in banking operations and services, responsible investment, social responsibility, human resources, equality issues, the Bank's varied support for the community and diverse partnerships, not to mention finances and risk management.
Landsbankinn's Annual Report 2016
The Annual Report provides an overview of highlights in the Bank's 2016 operation. The annual report reviews important aspects of the Bank's foreign financing in 2016, its services to private individuals, companies and institutional investors throughout Iceland, and changes in banking. It contains a detailed discussion of the Bank's operation and strategy, its main activities in 2016, human resources policy and support for the community.
Landsbankinn's Annual Report 2015
The Annual Report provides an overview of highlights in the Bank's 2015 operation.
Financial statements for 2009
Landsbankinn's operating performance was positive by just over ISK 14.3 bn in 2009, the Bank's first full operational year. There is no realistic basis for comparison with prior years, as this was the Bank's first full year of operation.
Financial Statement for the last months of 2008
Landsbankinn's (NBI hf.) results for the period 7 October - 31 December 2008 was published 31 December 2008. The Bank was established 7 October, following the nationalisation of Landsbanki Íslands hf.
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There is power in our words. No one knows that better than the award-winning ensemble, Steve Dalton & The Leviticus Singers of Charlotte. The North Carolina-based Gospel group, who has opened for artists such as Marvin Sapp, John P. Kee, Jonathan Nelson, DeWayne Woods, Micah Stampley, and Lexi, released their single, the declarative "I Win" in December 2014. The inspiring anthem caught the attention of Gospel music fans during the first week of its release with the song moving up the iTunes Christian & Gospel chart debuting at #59. Now the Steve Dalton & The Leviticus Singers of Charlotte return with an updated rendition of the track. Penned by the group's leader, the new single, "I WIN, The Remix ft. LeJuene Thompson & Uncle Reece" is hitting the Gospel airwaves now.
Directed by Juan Ossa, the concept music video for the original song conveys stories of winning through real life testimonies of members of The Leviticus Singers of Charlotte.
Watch it below!
In addition, the music video and song were nominated for a 2015 Prayze Factor People's Choice Award, four 2015 Rhythm of Gospel Awards, four 2015 Independent Gospel Radio Alliance Awards, a 2015 Independent Artists Christian Music Award, a 2015 Gospel Blockbuster Award, a 2015 Texas Gospel Music Academy Award, a 2015 Chosen Voice Music Award and a 2015 Queen City Music Award.
The vocally-blessed ensemble is thrilled about the accolades, but their goal is simply ministry. It's one of the reasons Dalton named the group "Leviticus". He says, "I believe your destiny is tied to your name. So I was committed to choosing a name that reflected the purpose of the group and was rooted in scripture. I was led to name the group after the book of Leviticus because that's the first book where we are introduced to the Levites, those people that God called to maintain the temple. We consider ourselves modern day Levites," shares Dalton.
Their mission is to present "Vertical Music" to the world, or music that focuses on God and is sung directly to God. "Vertical Music" will be on full display on the group's sophomore release, As One: Release The Sound. Scheduled to drop on July 8, 2016, the project is a double CD with one CD presenting worship and another CD providing praise. The 20+ song project showcases songs penned by Dalton and delivered by the dynamic ensemble, The Leviticus Singers of Charlotte, seven singers hailing from the Charlotte area.
Steve Dalton received the vision for the group during a rehearsal of a conference choir. A lover of Gospel music his entire life, he learned to play the saxophone, flute, keyboard and drums before the age of 11. At 19, he became the minister of music at his home church. While growing up, his father was absent and he found himself lost in music. But the emptiness wasn't filled, not until he attended a "Spiritual Encounter Face-to-Face Weekend". God healed the brokenness of Steve's heart and inspired him to help other men in the same situation.


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The most important resources for you as you research post-graduate public interest fellowship ideas are people: Vanderbilt's Public Interest Office and Career Services staff; professors who know you well; employers in the fields you are interested in; students and alums who have worked in those fields; and other contacts you have developed through your work experiences. Throughout your networking process, you should work closely with the Assistant Dean for Public Interest. They will advise you on when and how to reach out to fellowship funders themselves.
Finally, you should spend significant time consulting with the many excellent written resources on public interest employment and post-graduate fellowships, particularly the following:
The most important online resource for fellowship planning is also the online centerpiece of all public interest employment searches: PSJD. PSJD has a membership of more than 200 law schools and over 13,000 law-related public interest organizations. Because Vanderbilt is a PSJD member, Vanderbilt students and alums can use the site to search for summer and permanent jobs as well as fellowship opportunities. You must create a personal login to use PSJD.
To search PSJD for (a) fellowship opportunities and (b) host organizations that are looking to sponsor project-based fellowship applicants, take the following steps:
You can also narrow your search by practice area and location.
PSJD's Resource Center also includes several helpful documents to guide you through the fellowship search and application process:
Vanderbilt's Office of Career Services posts fellowship opportunities and host organization solicitations on Symplicity.
Yale Law School maintains a helpful overview of public interest fellowships that is available to the public.


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|Velleman K8055 library for BeOS beta 1
The Velleman
USB Experiment Interface Board K8055 is a small USB board with several I/O
ports for electronics hobbyists. It provides 5 digital inputs, 8 digital
outputs, 2 analog inputs, 2 analog/PWM outputs (each with 8 bit resolution), and
two hardware counters bound to the two first digital inputs with customizable
debounce times.
This package contains a library to interface your BeOS/ZETA application with this board and a demo application, with full source code released under the MIT license. No driver installation is required, it uses the BeOS USB Kit.
The library is very simple and implements all the functions explained in the Velleman's developers guide for the original Windows DLL. It would be nice to have something better - i.e., object oriented classes, multithreading-multiboard support, notify on input changes, and such - but this will be for another version. If you want, take a look at the code and improve it!
This program is not approved, supported, or endorsed by Velleman.
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– ISIS Unveils Its New Gold-Backed Currency To Remove Itself From "The Oppressors' Money System" (ZeroHedge, Nov 13, 2014):
It appears the rumors are true. Islamic State is set to become the only 'state' to back its currency with gold (silver and copper) as it unveils the new coins that will be used in an attempt to solidify its makeshift caliphate. ISIS says the new currency will take the group out of "the oppressors' money system."
As Zaid Benjamin notes, ISIS releases details of its new currancy with golden 1 & 5 dinar, silver 1, 5, 10 dirham and copper 10 & 20 fils
#Iraq | #ISIS says the new currency will take the group out of "the oppressors money system" pic.twitter.com/4S4GcM86Jk
— Zaid Benjamin (@zaidbenjamin) November 13, 2014
* * *It seems Alan Greenspan may have been on to something after all…
what we're looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all
evidence, a premier currency. No fiat currency, including the dollar,
can match it."
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Of course this will mean more physical demand – along with Russia and China – and so more price suppression by the West.
A welcome distraction: the Islamist dude with the $6.500 James Bond watch.
Related info:
– George Galloway On ISIS (Video )
– Israel And Turkey Are Directly Supporting ISIS And Al-Qaeda Terrorists In Syria
– The Khorasans: As Fake As the Kardashians
– What Iraq Thinks: "It Is Obvious To Everyone That ISIS Is A Creation Of The United States And Israel"
– The Fake Beheadings of the Arch-Zionist Crime Syndicate
– ISIS EXPOSED 100% AS CIA OPERATION: 'The Next Osama Bin Laden is Here' (Video)
– ISIL Leader Al-Baghdadi Is Mossad Agent Simon Elliot
McCain and his buddy, ISIS leader Al-Baghdadi:
The U.S. has armed and trained ISIS:
– Veterans Today: CIA And US Military Fight Under Al Qaeda Command In Syria (Video)
– U.S. Special Forces Train Syrian Rebels In Jordan (Le Figaro)
– Americans Are Training Syria Rebels In Jordan: Spiegel (Reuters)
– CIA-Armed And Trained Syrian Rebels 'On Way To Battlefield'
– 'Military Intervention In Syria', US Training 'Rebels' Since 2011 And The Complete Grand Plan – The March 2012 Leak
… all of them coming directly from from our Al-CIAda unit …
– Why Was A Sunday Times Report On US Government Ties To Al-Qaeda Chief Spiked? & Gladio B
– Hillary Clinton: 'We Created Al-Qaeda' — The Protagonists Of The 'Global War on Terrorism' Are The Terrorists (Video)
– 'GLADIO, THE LIVING PROOF THERE IS NO AL-QAEDA, NO WAR ON TERROR' – 'GLADIO Is AL-QAEDA' (Veterans Today)
Just one month after this article has been published in the Guardian Robin Cook DIED:
– Former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook: 'Al-Qaida, Literally "The Database", Was Originally The Computer File Of The Thousands Of Mujahideen Who Were Recruited And Trained With Help From The CIA To Defeat The Russians'
– Al Qaeda Doesn't Exist or How The US Created Al Qaeda (Documentary)
– BBC: Al-Qaeda Does Not Exist (Documentary)
Retired U.S. General Wesley Clark …
… at the Commonwealth Club of California:
– U.S. 4 Star General Wesley Clark, Oct 3, 2007: 'We're Gonna Attack And Destroy The Governments In 7 Countries In 5 Years' … 'Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan And Iran' (Video)
… or here in this interview with Democracy Now:
– Interview With US General Wesley Clark (Ret.): US Government Planned To 'Take Out 7 Countries In 5 Years': 'Starting With Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan And Finishing Off Iran' (Video)


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Mar 5, 2019
California AG: Sacramento officers face no charges for Stephon Clark's killing
The 2 Sacramento police officers who shot and killed Stephon Clark, an unarmed black man, in his grandmother's backyard last year will not face criminal prosecution, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced Tuesday.
Backdrop: This comes after Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert said Saturday that Officers Terrence Mercadal and Jared Robinet, who shot Clark 8 times, broke no laws and will face "no criminal liability." Clark's shooting has gained national attention and led to public outcry for police reform and improved police-community relations.
Go deeper: Clark family: Fight for justice over fatal shooting has just begun


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Barrow County deputy hailed a hero for saving drowning child
BARROW COUNTY, Ga. (FOX 5 Atlanta) - A little boy is alive thanks to the actions of a Barrow County Sheriff's deputy. The 3-year-old's grandmother tracked down the deputy to personally thank him.
Deputy Bill Minish is being credited with reviving Chandler Skelton on the banks of Lake Hartwell, just north of Atlanta, on the Fourth of July.
Cellphone video shows fireworks, then frantic cries after many heard Chandler screaming from the dark waters of the lake near the Poplar Springs Recreation Area.
"Somebody's in the water, somebody's in the water, somebody in the water," people are heard saying in the video.
Deputy Minish told FOX 5 News his nephew spotted the toddler with a flashlight. That prompted him to wade out and then swim to Chandler, who was barely making ripples in water over the deputy's head about 25 yards from shore.
"If you can imagine a fish on top of the water you know the little flopping that they will do when they're on top of the water, it was something similar to that," said Deputy Minish.
The deputy said he rescued Chandler, bringing him onshore. Then with Chandler's grandfather pumping the boy's chest, Deputy Minish conducted mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, reviving the toddler.
"When I rolled him over a lot of water run out of his mouth and nose and once that happened he took a couple of breaths and his eyes popped right open," said Deputy Minish.
Chandler was checked out at an area hospital and was able to go home thanks to the lifesaving efforts of Deputy Minish.
Chandler's grandmother, Vicki Skelton, called while FOX 5 reporter George Franco was speaking to Deputy Minish
"Thank God for Mr. Minish being there, thank God. He is my angel and my hero and everything you could imagine that's him," said Skelton.
The Skelton family, including Chandler, were with Deputy Chandler last week when he received The Sheriff's Life Saving Award for saving Chandler.
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Deputy Chandler told FOX 5 News the Skelton family tracked him down at the sheriff's office which then awarded him the award.


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Conversation not navigation - the future of websites
There are more than 1.2 billion websites globally - and studies show most people don't know where to look to find basic information because often navigation labels, menus and tabs are so confusing. So with this in mind VERSA took the challenge to engage visitors by revolutionising navigation and taking hyper-personalisation to the next level.
We delivered a global first navigation-less and bot-activated website - https://versa.agency. Where customers tell you what they want and relevant content is delivered to them. Using chatbot technology we dynamically generate content based on the two-way conversation with the website visitor in real-time.
Yes, it's different. So different it can be hard for people to get their head around how it works until they experience it in action – so we decided to show what is now possible by building it for our own website.
This is a game-changer for website design, communications and marketing. Why? Because it delivers a true human-centred experience that not only eliminates menus and tabs – it gets rid of all the problems associated with them.
Navigation makes the customer do all the work to find what they are looking for. Not anymore, with our navigation-less design. They ask, they get - from a digital concierge.
Cutting the confusion
Research shows just how difficult users find menu navigation when searching for basic information. Why? Because all those generic, often vague and non-specific names like 'products', 'solutions', 'services' and 'resources' seem interchangeable and overlap.
When survey participants were asked to choose where they would expect to find specific pieces of information from menu options, the result was digital chaos – and the same occurred regardless of gender, geography, income and education.
The researchers called that confusion and frustration 'navigation paralysis' and 'failure'. At the time of the study in 2018, the proposed solution was to 'make labels as specific and clear as possible and to let your customers tell you how you should be organising your offering'.
New technology means new opportunities
In 2021, we have a better solution.
Don't use labels and don't force visitors to try and find an answer, like a mouse in a maze looking for cheese that they may or may not reach.
The technology wasn't ready before. It is now. We couldn't have built and launched this even a year ago. But we've reached one of those magical moments in business and technology where the nexus between inspiration and innovation makes the iteration possible.
The technology we have utilised has made it out of the sandbox and matured to the point where it can take development to the next level. We've used the very latest in platform technology to bring the navigation-less experience to life.
Faster, easier, better
A navigation-less website makes it easier for users to find what they want quickly, without going down a rabbit hole of endless scrolling, searching, and head-scratching.
It also rectifies the problem of impatient website users who have become conditioned to instant information gratification (thanks Google). People now expect an efficient and seamless experience from websites, apps and products, not just from search engines.
Navigation-less websites deliver that – whilst also creating interactive conversations with the user. That's a big difference. Search engines are one-way, navigation-less is two-way.
Personalised context, content and conversations
Our industry has spent the last 10 years trying to build human-centred designs using research techniques such as useability, eye tracking, building personas. Navigation-less website changes everything because it asks the one person that matters – the user of the website - how can we help 'you'?.
Two-way conversational interactions give you context. It's a hyper-personalised experience, where every single user's story and journey is a different, bespoke one, based on where they start and the context of the conversation.
The AI bot's ability to interpret, understand and fetch data instantly means you can collect and mine more accurate data. Gaining better insight to deliver hyper-personalised experiences, content, information and recommendations – without the need for users to log in.
Those insights mean you can continually adapt content and offerings and build a knowledge base that meets changing needs, demands and questions.
An accessible future
Importantly, in a world finally shining a light on addressing inclusion and accessibility, navigation-less websites have the potential to make content and answers available to all – regardless of language, literacy levels and physical abilities. When users can ask for what they want in their own words, in their own language, it doesn't matter if they're a non-English speaker, have low literacy, are vision impaired or an elderly person with dexterity issues. It democratises access to information through conversation.
Search has never been easier
That's not all, navigation-less websites also help improve your SEO. You have the flexibility to create thousands of content pages– and keep adding them - without having to find a place under a conventional navigation hierarchy. The search engines can still find and trawl your content for SEO, but your visitors won't have to – they'll be served with relevant content when they ask for it.


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Matthew Hayes flew to LA to talk to Ed Boon and co about Injustice 2. They also decide whether Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is worth buying again and talk on the Breath of the Wild ending.
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Responding to the announcement of additional funding from the Scottish Government to support colleges and universities during the pandemic, Universities Scotland Director Alastair Sim said:
"The Scottish Government's announcement of an additional £60 million one-off COVID consequential funding for universities and colleges is very welcome. The sector has faced a series of acute financial challenges because of the pandemic and this in-year funding will make a real difference in addressing some of those pressures.
"Securing additional COVID consequentials to fund research and innovation is very welcome recognition from the Scottish Government of the vital role that university research has already played throughout this pandemic and the role it will have in navigating Scotland through a successful economic recovery. We also welcome the announcement's recognition of the importance of what universities do to help students to succeed. We welcome the flexibility the Scottish Government intends for allocation of this total package of funding and we look forward to discussing this with the Funding Council as a priority."


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The Moscato wine that was created with a hint of spritz and a sense of fun and vitality, bursting with sweet tropical fruits.
Meminum Arak Boleh Membahayakan Kesihatan.
- Notes: Heady floral aromas, complimented by ripe tropical fruits. Sweet tropical fruits and flavours of sherbet and musk are balanced by crisp citrus notes.
- Enjoyed with: Spicy seafood dishes but also perfect with fruit salad for a light dessert. Also ideal as a summer aperitif.
- Country: South Australia
- Abv: 14%
- Size: 75cl
Meminum Arak Boleh Membahayakan Kesihatan.
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X-MEN Producer Wants Channing Tatum For GAMBIT Movie
Channing Tatum is no exception to the superheroe movie trend as he recently revealed that he would love to play the X-Men's Gambit on the big screen
I'm dying to do a Gambit movie with Channing Tatum. That doesn't have to be a great big movie. It's a thief in New Orleans, it's a whole different story. He's on board, and I have to get the studio on board. How can anyone resist Channing? He's such a sweetheart.Donner seems to be suggesting an inexpensive approach, one that will keep things on the cheap, especially for a character that isn't one of a dominant top tier characters of Marvel. Tatum described a charming master thief turned X-Man at a White House Down press conference last year:
Gambit was always like the woman-loving, cigarette-smoking, drinking guy. He was the punk rock of all the superheroes. He's a thief. He kind of rode the line.Despite the star and producer are thinking along the same lines, the film still doesn't have official studio approval and Donner needs to convince Fox. We'll see where the project goes from there.


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Five subjects who participated in an earlier study (Lelo et al., 1986b) of the comparative pharmacokinetics of caffeine (CA) and its primary monodemethylated metabolites paraxanthine (PX), theobromine (TB) and theophylline (TP) were administered CA to steady‐state. Using areas under the plasma concentration‐time curves for each of the dimethylxanthines derived from CA in the steady‐state study and individual plasma clearances of PX, TB and TP determined in the previous study, the fractional conversion of CA to PX, TB and TP and the individual partial clearances of CA have been defined. The mean (+/‐ s.d.) fractional conversion of CA to PX, TB and TP was 79.6 +/‐ 21.0%, 10.8 +/‐ 2.4% and 3.7 +/‐ 1.3%, respectively. When only demethylation pathways are considered PX, TB and TP accounted for 83.9 +/‐ 5.4%, 12.1 +/‐ 4.1% and 4.0 +/‐ 1.4%, respectively of the CA demethylations. The mean partial clearance of CA to PX was approximately 8‐fold and 23‐fold greater than those to TB and TP respectively. These data confirm earlier reports that PX is the major metabolite of CA in humans but suggest that PX formation is quantitatively more important than previously believed. 1986 The British Pharmacological Society
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Michelle Yeoh says she won Miss Malaysia to 'shut her mother up': 'We had a deal'
Michelle Yeoh has revealed that the only reason she took part in the Miss Malaysia beauty contest in 1983 was because of her mother.
The Oscar-nominated actor, who went on to win the contest at the age of 20, said her mother was the one who "signed the form" to enter her.
Appearing on The Graham Norton Show on Friday night (3 February), the Everything, Everywhere All At Once star recalled how her mother "suddenly [got] looped into this whole thing about" how she should go for more auditions while she was in her early 20s.
"I'm thinking, 'What on earth is she on about?'" Yeoh said. "Next thing I knew, my brother – she looped my brother into doing [the same], he was like, 'Yeah, yeah, you should try that'.
"She had entered me for Miss Malaysia. She actually signed the form, so technically, I'm not legit," she joked.
Norton chimed in and said: "But you'd think, 'Oh, terrible thing to do', but – you won!"
Yeoh continued: "I did it to shut her up. Because she wouldn't stop about it, so we had a deal. If I do this, you will never do something like this again."
After the show, Norton tweeted: "Winning Miss Malaysia just to shut your mum up? ICONIC BEHAVIOUR."
Yeoh's parents are Janet Yeoh and the late Yeoh Kian-teik, who was a politician in Malaysia. She was born in Ipoh and moved to the UK as a teenager to attend an all-girls boarding school.
During her appearance, the 60-year-old also recalled how her mother used to chaperone her dates until she went to England.
Norton asked: "At what age were you when she insisted on coming on a date with you?"
"Now, you have to remember mums are very protective, right, for all the right reasons," Yeoh said. "She always went on a date. Always, until I went to England to study."
She recalled going on a date when she was 17 years old and sitting between her mother and the boy she was on a date with.
"One time I was sitting like this [gestures with her arms crossed] and I suddenly realised, 'Why are there two hands on my leg?'
"It was his hand on my mum's hand," she recalled, bursting into laughter. "He was holding the hand he thought was mine, and then I looked at it like, 'Excuse me, guys'."
Yeoh received a nomination for Best Actress for Everything, Everywhere All At Once earlier this month, making her the first Asian woman to be nominated in the category. Her co-star Ke Huy Quan was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
She said: "Even just to be nominated means validation, love, from your peers. What it means for the rest of the Asians around the world, not just in America but globally, is to say we have a seat at the table.
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Virginia Business 2021 Top 500 List Includes Ramon W. Breeden, Jr. and C. Torrey Breeden
The second annual edition of the Virginia 500: The 2021 Power List has been released.
C. Torrey Breeden is featured in the Real Estate division. To learn more, click here.
Ramon W. Breeden, Jr. is featured as a Living Legends. To learn more, click here.
Inclusion in the Virginia 500 is not an endorsement by Virginia Business. It is simply recognition of a person's power, influence and importance within their field.
Nationally recognized, with over 60 years of expertise in every facet of the industry, The Breeden Company is a vertically integrated real estate development organization that boasts market-leading divisions including commercial real estate, multifamily property management and construction. With a portfolio of over 20,000 apartments and 2 million square feet of retail and office space that have been owned, managed and developed, The Breeden Company is one of the premier real estate development firms in the nation. Breeden Realty is one of the top commercial real estate firms in Virginia (Virginia Business, 2021); Breeden Property Management is one of the top multifamily property management firms in the country (Multi-Housing News, 2021); Breeden Construction, the much-acclaimed multifamily general contractor for numerous third-party clients, is one of the top multifamily builders in the country (Multi-Housing News, 2020).
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We trudge onward through the Big Ten, searching for reasons to live through a summer of boredom.
You May Remember Them From Such Games As...: Last season's 35-10 bludgeoning in Ann Arbor, which followed 2008's 46-17 bludgeoning in Happy Valley. That's 81-27 over two years, mathletes. Ordinarily, this would be a monumental achievement for Penn State, but don't get too proud. Take away a mid-season guarantee game against severely outmanned Delaware State, and Michigan lost their last seven games, including a 38-13 school bus fire at Illinois on Halloween that inspired the dong-punching webinar over at MGoBlog.
Reasons To Hate: Every last morsel of this. Yes, the last two years have been nice, but they don't come close to erasing the pain of 2005, 1999, and a bunch of those other games.
Sole Redeeming Quality: The oft-quoted Chinese Curse seems appropriate -- "may you live in interesting times." Not a problem for Michigan fans, who find their coach under siege from a combination of influential alumni and local writers, and see a quarterback derby that could fracture the team before the conference schedule even starts. Like Michigan or not (and we all know the answer to that), they'll be a wildly compelling team to follow this season.
Last Season, In One Picture:
Above, Tate Forcier and the 2009 Michigan defense. Not pictured, Brandon Graham eating your quarterback and generally destroying stuff.
Cold Blooded Old Times: Semi-vintage trickeration from 1995, as Joe Nastasi runs in a fake field goal in Beaver Stadium.
If Michigan Was A Character In Some Movie Or TV Show Or Whatever: George Oscar Bluth, Arrested Development. Wears expensive suits. Talks loudly. Accomplishes nothing. Expects you to care anyway. Come on!
Oddly Compelling Off-Season Scandal: This dumb "quality control assistant" / over-practicing thing that's been dogging Rich Rodriguez for months and giving ammo to every anti-Rod columnist in that economically shattered mitten we call Michigan. Don't care. Do. Not. Care. On the grand scale of collegiate athletics scandals, this is fun, but piddling. It's the NCAA equivalent of 140 hours of Congressional testimony about the Clinton's Christmas card list. Entertaining to see Michigan pump repeated rounds into their own feet? Most certainly. OMG CHEETERZ? Ehh, yeah, a little. They'll go before the NCAA Committee on Infractions in mid-August, when they'll find out whether their self-imposed sanctions (which do not currently include a reduction of scholarships) are sufficient for the NCAA's liking.
Either way, bad timing. It'll be an issue that hangs over the start of the Wolverines' season. That, and the losing. The sweet, sweet losing.
Threat Level, From Amy Grant To G.G. Allin: KANYE WEST. Still garners our collective, fascinated attention despite producing nothing of significance during the past few years. Prone to sudden outbursts of frustration and futility, yet there's a lurking sense that they'll be back and annoying us sooner than later. Their success makes them even more unbearable. Enjoy the quiet time while it lasts.


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Credit unions generally charge an administration charge on present accounts, especially if they offer help with budgeting. But some don't cost at all, so check together with your local credit union before making a decision. If you've had issue opening an account with a bank or building society, a credit union current account could possibly be a good choice for you. Credit unions are additionally in style with people who choose to handle their money through a not-for-profit organisation. You can pay back your mortgage in several different ways, though some credit unions won't offer all methods.
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Typically, dividend rates are 1-three%, however it might be as little as 0% or as excessive as eight% of the sum saved. If your union offers a bank account facility, it's going to operate very very like aBasic Bank Account. If you're after top-paying financial savings, first compare what the credit union's providing to the accounts in theTop Savingsguide. However, some social housing landlords and councils have been working with credit unions to supply tenants current accounts with lower fees.
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It's Marina Ignatova here with my new project and video tutorial!
Do you know what is the plus of Lindy's squirts? They have such stunning saturated colors that they are simply amazing to paint any decor! For example, I was painting a chipboard and took it on video.
Here is my process video – hoping you'll enjoy it!
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And some close-ups as a little inspiration
The full step-by-step process of creating a panel can be viewed on my channel
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The Oconomowoc and Lake Country Museum has in its archival collection documents pertaining to the city of Oconomowoc and the outlying areas we call the "lake country." They include Delafield, Hartland, Ashippun, Village of Oconomowoc Lake, Village of Lac LaBelle, Ixonia, Summit, Nashotah, Dousman, Monterey, Mapleton and Okauchee. Most of the materials are from Oconomowoc and Summit.
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Maverick's Theatre Company is an organization composed of professional performers with experience in Theatre, Film, Television, Stunts, Music, Animation and immersive events. Mavericks Theatre Company was created with the intent of bringing entertainment to patrons of the arts as well as give those who are unfamiliar with live theatre an experience that will leave them wanting more. Mavericks has worked in tandem with the city of Chino Hills in producing several successful productions. In 2014, Mavericks Theatre Company produced the first professional production in the city of Chino Hills's history. "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged" opened to an over sold out house with many turned away at the door.
A reviewer in the Chino Champion claimed "The only bad thing about the show was that it was only one night". The show did receive an encore presentation a few months later, and Mavericks has been contracted to produce an entire season for the city of Chino Hills. With laughter as it's first priority Mavericks entertains audiences of all ages and backgrounds. As a theatre company, Mavericks takes a fond look back into the past with classic pieces as well as a giant leap into the future with original and innovative works performing all over the Southern California areas.
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Many things have changed since local singer/songwriter Dannie Marie left her home in Alpine in 2017, but not her messages of inclusion. Her dream was to move to Nashville, and that dream has come true. She is now rebranding her music, and her name. Her dream of releasing a Nashville recorded music release online is now here. Daniella's new single "Country Club" is set to be released at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve.
"Country Club" is a mashup of Daniella's favorite genres. Country music with a new sound.
"This single has a new sound that I am doing that is a mix of pop country with electronic dance music," said Daniella. "This track is very pop, very EDM with banjo in there to give it that pop country feeling. For this song, I did very country lyrics over the pop and EDM track."
"Country Club" was co-written by country singer Chris Lane's former lead guitarist Sid Menon. Daniella said when she wrote the song, it was much different. An underdog anthem about people that feel left out, she said it was much slower, but at the end of the day, the message is still the same.
"It's about people that are bullied, left out, excluded, but at the end of the day they are confident in their selves and believe in themselves," she said. "My producer and I came up with the phrase 'Country Club,' which is like an uppity rich club that only certain people can get in to. We changed the meaning to no matter where you are from, no matter who you are, you are invited to our country club."
Daniella said between the pandemic, the country-wide division and the disfunction seen every day in social media, she believes this is the right song at the right time.
"In the song, we talk about our club is an empty lawn and our bar is whatever you brought," she said. "We wanted to do a song about invitation and inclusion, so it really evolved from its beginning stages. I am super excited. I hope people can relate to it. Now, more than ever, it is easy to be left out and excluded with the pandemic making everyone isolated. I hope that it is not only fun, but that it inspires people to feel included when they listen to it."
Daniella said getting to Nashville has been an incredible journey. She left Alpine shortly after the release of her single "Anything I Wanna Be" in 2017. She went to NorCal later that year to meet her fiancé, now husband. He had bought an old RV.
"Our plan was to renovate it and then take it on a road trip to Nashville and move there," she said. "We spent about a year renovating the RV, then took a three month long road trip. It was a fun way to relocate to Nashville."
Now that she has been in Nashville for well more than a year, she said Music City has done more for her life and career than the four years she worked in Los Angeles.
"The song writing community and the artist here has been so welcoming and nice, and I feel like doors have been opening," said Daniella. "Besides the cold weather it has been the perfect place for what I am doing."
Daniella said many times the journey is in the music. She said while traveling cross country to Nashville, she did a lot of reevaluating and praying. Growing up in the industry since the age of 6, she said she was told who she needed to be and what she needed to sound like.
"All these other people put you in this box," she said. "Now that I am older, I look back and realize I was just a kid. You have no concept like you have when you are older. One of the things that made me transition is that I feel that with my music I had become passionate about pop and other musical influences. I realized I did not have to do this Taylor Swift-y pop. I can make any kind of music that I want to. I decided that I was going to make the kind of music that I wanted to make because I am passionate about it and it feel right in my soul. I had to give my new self, and my new path a new name."
Daniella said this happened when she was 16 and she was told she needed a catchier name. That is when she came up with Dannie Marie.
"I did that because someone told me I had to do it to fit into this industry and I did not like that," she said. "At the end of the day, you cannot spend your days trying to please other people. This is something that I still battle with."
Daniella said that the industry is hard and brutal, and the one thing that always comes back to her is to never give up. She said it is simple and cliché, but it is true.
"You can look at many successful people in the industry and at some time in their lives they were told to go home and stop trying," she said, "It is those people who do not give up that end up staying in the game. Hard work is part of it also. You can have as much talent in the world that you want, but if you are not working hard, no one is going to find you and know about your talent."
Daniella said she misses everything about Alpine. She said of course, you really do not appreciate your hometown until you leave it, but there is a stark contrast of the quaint town and the big cities.
"At the four way stop that leads to my home in Alpine, and I remember coming home from LA and taking a left to my home and I would just park, roll down my windows and look at the stars. You can not find a street like that in LA," she said.


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Wonderful post, Tina. I'd love too meet her, too. I own two books in the Every Cowgirl series and am so happy of ruer and her big family. Yipee.ReplyDelete
And Tina, thank YOU again for taking the time to visit us and to conduct the interview. It was such a joy to meet you and your children. I hope our paths cross again! And I can't wait for your upcoming projects!
Oh what fun! Nellie Sue sounds like a real character! Can't wait to read Spin.ReplyDelete
Sounds fun, Tina. Thanks for sharing your interview.
What a lovely journey so far. Great interview.ReplyDelete
So nice to meet Rebecca and hear about her journey as a writer. I love her ideas for launch parties - the square dance in a barn looks like a blast! You'll have to update us, Tina, about what the plans are for SPIN. :)ReplyDelete
Rebecca's Cowgirl series are among my favorite picture books so I am glad to learn about her other books. I'm really looking forward to reading Spin.
It is fun to meet other writers. Hopefully I'll meet up with both you and Rebecca one day.
Thanks for the interview.


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Needed: Empty plastic soft drink bottle.
Procedure: Make sure the bottle is clean. Place your mouth firmly around the mouth of the bottle and blow into the bottle while squeezing the side of the bottle. What happens? Pull your mouth away from the bottle? What happens now? Again, place your mouth over the mouth of the bottle, but this time, draw as much air from the bottle as you can. What happens?
What Happened: When you blew, you forced air into the bottle. This compressed the air inside the bottle which increased the air pressure inside. You were able to feel the increased pressure because the bottle resisted your squeeze.
When you drew air out of the bottle, the bottle began to collapse. Air was taken out of the bottle, and the pressure inside dropped. Since the air pressure on the inside was less than the air pressure on the outside, the outside air pressure caused the bottle to collapse until the two pressures were equalized.
Removing air is not the only way to lower air
pressure. A fast moving current of air will do the
same thing.
Materials Needed: Strip of paper, 3 cm (1 in) by 23 cm (9 in).
Procedure: Hold the narrow side of the strip of paper just underneath your lower lip and blow across the paper. What happens?
What Happened: The paper strip rose.
A fast moving stream of air has a lower air pressure than a slower air stream. As the stream of air moved over the top of the paper, the air pressure over the paper dropped. The air pressure underneath the paper stayed the same. The greater air pressure underneath lifted the paper strip and it rose. The idea that a moving air stream has lower air pressure than air that is not moving is called "Bernoulli's Principle".
Materials Needed: A piece of stiff paper (such as construction paper), 3 cm (1 in) by 20 cm (8 in).
Procedure: Fold the paper 3 cm (1 in) from each end into a "U" shape. Place this paper upside down on a table top near the edge as shown.
Blow gently underneath the
paper. Gradually blow harder. What happens?
What To Look For: Does the paper blow away? Can you blow hard enough to blow it away?
What Happened: When you blew underneath the paper, you created a moving stream of air. We know that Bernoulli's Principle says that air in this moving stream is lower than the still air above it. The higher air pressure above the paper pressed the paper down, and the harder you blew, the more the paper was forced down.
This experiment should be done only with adult
supervision. You should always be very careful when
you use an electric fan. Keep your fingers out!
Materials Needed: Balloon; paper clips; small electric fan; several books.
Procedure: Use the books to position the electric fan so that it is blowing straight up. You should also make sure that air can get to the back side of the fan. You may need to use several books to support the fan in order to do this.
Inflate the balloon and tie it off. Slip one paper clip onto the neck of the balloon. Turn the fan on low and hold the balloon in the middle of the air stream. Let it go.
What To Look For: The balloon should be suspended above the fan. If it falls toward the fan, try turning the fan up higher, or removing the paper clip. If the balloon blows away, add a second paper clip.
What Happened: The force of the moving air underneath the balloon was enough to hold it up. The weight added by the paper clip prevents the balloon from going too high. But that is only part of the story. The balloon stays inside the moving stream of air because the pressure inside is the air stream is lower than the still air around it. As the balloon moves toward the still air outside of the air stream, the higher pressure of the still air forces the balloon back into the lower pressure of the air stream. Bernoulli's Principle at work again!
Going Further: Try this with a beach ball if you have one. The beach ball is probably heavy enough so that you won't have to use anything to weigh it down. If you do need extra weight, try taping one or more paper clips to the ball.
Take care when using the straight pin in this
experiment. Make sure that the pin cannot poke you in
the eye by not holding the spool straight up!
Materials Needed: Small piece of cardboard; sewing thread spool; straight pin.
Procedure: Cut about a 5 cm (2 in) square from a small piece of cardboard such as a "3 x 5" card. (The size is not critical.) Place a straight pin through the center of the cardboard, and place the cardboard and pin in one end of spool. The straight pin must be shorter than the spool! Tip the spool up just enough to keep the cardboard and pin from falling out. (See CAUTION!) Blow through the bottom of the spool. Try to blow the cardboard off of the spool.
What Happened: This is Bernoulli's principle at work again. The force of the moving air underneath the cardboard created an area of lower pressure. The higher pressure from the still air above the cardboard was greater than the moving air beneath it. The greater pressure from above pushed down on the cardboard and prevented you from blowing it away from the spool.
Try this on your friends!
When a car or truck moves down the highway, it
moves through a stream of air. Depending on how the
car or truck is shaped, the air can make the ride smooth or
rough. If the air stream cannot move smoothly, it will
create drag on the vehicle and will require much more fuel
to move. These next experiments show how air streams
move around different shaped objects.
Always be careful to follow all safety precautions when
using fire, and use with adult supervision only! Keep
your alcohol lamp or candle in an aluminum pie pan, and keep
the flame at least three feet away from anything that can
burn, unless otherwise instructed.
Materials Needed: A piece of stiff cardboard cut to about 10 by 16 cm (4 by 6 in); modeling clay; alcohol lamp or short candle (about 8 cm or 3 in); a friend.
Procedure: Make a stand for the cardboard from modeling clay as shown. Place the cardboard about three to four inches in front of the lighted candle or alcohol lamp. Press down on the clay to hold the cardboard firmly on the table top. Have a friend blow gently onto the cardboard while you observe the flame on the other side. Have your friend to blow harder until the candle is blown out as you watch. What do you see?
Now turn the cardboard so that the edge faces the candle. Relight the candle and again have your friend to blow until the candle goes out. Is anything different?
What Happened: When the air stream hits the flat surface of the cardboard, it is forced to spread across the front of the cardboard before it can go around. As it goes around, it swirls near the ends of the cardboard creating "turbulence". This swirling turbulence causes the flame to be pulled toward the cardboard. It also causes the flame to be pulled in several different directions which may cause the candle to "sputter" before going out.
When the thin edge is in the airstream, air can move much more efficiently, and you should see much less turbulence. The candle is much easier to blow out as well.
Always be careful to follow all safety precautions when
using fire, and use with adult supervision only! Keep
your alcohol lamp or candle in an aluminum pie pan, and keep
the flame at least three feet away from anything that can
burn, unless otherwise instructed.
Materials Needed: Round glass bottle, such as a soft drink bottle; candle or alcohol lamp.
Procedure: Place the glass bottle about three to four inches in front of the alcohol lamp or candle. Have a friend to try blowing out the flame by blowing on the bottle from the side opposite of the flame. What do you see?
What To Look For: How much force is needed to blow out the flame?
What Happened: The flame was much easier to blow out than when blowing on a wide flat surface as in the first part of the last experiment. We say that the bottle is much more "streamlined" than the flat cardboard, because it's round shape allows a stream of air to flow around it much more smoothly than a flat surface. Cars, planes, boats and other fast moving objects are designed to be streamlined to allow air to move around them as smoothly as possible. When vehicles are streamlined, they are much more fuel efficient, because energy is not wasted by fighting unnecessary drag of the air.
So far you have seen some of the effects of air
pressure. These next experiments will illustrate
another very important characteristic of air - how it
behaves when its temperature changes.
Needed: Two or three liter plastic soft drink
bottle; quarter (or other coin that will cover the mouth of
the bottle); refrigerator.
Procedure: Remove the cap from the bottle and place the bottle in the freezer portion of the refrigerator for about a half hour. When the bottle is ready, wet a quarter and remove the bottle from the freezer. Place the quarter on top of the mouth of the bottle and observe what happens. Save the cap and bottle for use in the next experiment.
What Happened: After a moment or two, the quarter begins to move. Do you know why? See if the next experiment helps you to understand?
Needed: Two or three liter plastic soft drink
bottle; refrigerator.
Procedure: If you are using the bottle from the last experiment, allow it to warm back to room temperature. Screw the cap on the bottle and squeeze the bottle. Note how easy or hard it is to squeeze. Remove the cap and place the bottle into the freezer portion of the refrigerator for about a half hour.
Remove the bottle from the refrigerator and immediately put the cap back onto the bottle. Allow the bottle to warm back up to room temperature. When the bottle has warmed, squeeze the bottle again. How easy or hard is it to squeeze now? Remove the cap. What happens?
What Happened: The bottle was much easier to squeeze before you placed it into the refrigerator than after it was removed. You should have also heard the sound of rushing air when you removed the cap. Do you know why? The next experiment should give you more information.
Needed: Balloon; refrigerator; ruler; string.
Procedure: Inflate the balloon and tie it off. Place the string all the way around the balloon at its longest point. Remove the string, stretch it out, and measure its length. Write this number down. Do the same thing for the widest point around the balloon.
Place the balloon in the freezer for 30 minutes. Remove the balloon and very quickly take the same measurements. (You may even want to do this while the balloon is still in the freezer.) Are the numbers the same or different?
Allow the balloon to warm back to room temperature and take these measurements one more time. What are they now?
What Happened: You should have seen that the measurements decreased slightly when the balloon was chilled, but as the balloon warmed back up, they increased. In fact, they were probably about what they were at the beginning. Hopefully, you're beginning to see what's going on. If so, you should be able to predict what will happen in the next experiment.
Needed: Two or three liter plastic soft drink
bottle with cap; refrigerator.
Procedure: Place the cap on the soft drink bottle tightly and put the bottle in the freezer portion of the refrigerator. Remove the bottle. What do you see? With the cap still on, allow the bottle to return to room temperature. Are there any changes?
What Happened: When you removed the bottle from the freezer, it should have partially collapsed. However, as bottle rewarmed, the bottle should have expanded back to it's original size.
In each of
the experiments in this series, air was cooled and allowed to
rewarm. In every case, when the air was cooled, it
contracted. When the air warmed back up, it
In the first experiment, when you cooled the bottle without the cap, you started with a bottle of cold air. When you placed the wet coin over the top, you formed a weak seal. As the air inside the bottle warmed, it expanded, and the pressure inside began to increase. The expanding air broke the seal and escaped, which caused the coin to jump.
In the next experiment, you used the bottle cap to seal the bottle of cold air. As the air warmed, it again expanded, but there was no way for it to escape. The pressure inside increased, which made the bottle more difficult to squeeze. When you removed the cap, the air rushed out and relieved the pressure inside.
When the balloon was cooled, it shrank, and when it was rewarmed, it expanded again. Likewise, when the sealed bottle was cooled, it collapsed because the cooled air inside contracted, but when the air warmed back up, it expanded again, causing the bottle to return to its proper size.
In all of these experiments, you observed the same thing. When air was heated, it expanded. When air was cooled, it contracted. You have probably also figured out that if this happens in a sealed container, the pressure inside is affected by the expansion or contraction.
The next two experiments will help us better
understand how pressure and temperature are related.
Always be careful to follow all safety precautions when
using fire, and use with adult supervision only!
Keep your alcohol lamp or candle in an aluminum pie pan, and
keep the flame at least three feet away from anything that
can burn, unless otherwise instructed.
Materials Needed: Aluminum soft drink can; pair of kitchen tongs; bowl of water; stove, hotplate or alcohol lamp and burner stand.
Procedure: Pour about 1 cm (½ in) of water into the bottom of the drink can. Using the tongs, place the can over a heat source and allow the water inside the can to boil. (The steam helps to raise the temperature inside of the can.) With the tongs, very quickly remove the can from the heat and turn it upside down into the bowl of water. Be careful not to spill hot water on yourself, or on anyone around you.
Happened: When the air inside the can was heated, it
expanded. The opening in the top of the can allowed the
expanding air, along with the steam, to escape as it was
heated. When you removed the can and put it into the
water upside down, two things happened. First, the
surrounding water very quickly cooled the air inside of the
can. As a result, the air inside contracted.
Second, the water sealed the top of the can so that air from
the outside could not get in. Because the can was sealed as it
was cooled, the pressure inside of the can dropped very
quickly, and the air pressure outside of the can caused the
can to collapse.
You should now be able to explain what happens in
this experiment.
CAUTION! Always be careful to follow all safety precautions when using a stove, and use with adult supervision only!
Materials Needed: One gallon metal can with a screw top; hotplate or stove top; oven mitts; metal sink or insulated potholders; water.
Procedure: Place about an 3 cm (1 in) of water in the bottom of the can. With the top off, heat the can over the hotplate or stove until it boils. Using the oven mitts, remove the can from the heat and place the can in a metal sink or on potholders. Then, quickly screw the top back on and observe what happens.
What Happened: Once again, the air inside the can was heated. The heat caused the air to expand, so that some of the air was forced out of the top along with the steam. When the can was removed from the stove, the heating stopped. By placing the cap on the can, air from the outside could not get in. As the air inside cooled, it contracted, and the pressure inside the can dropped. This allowed the greater pressure outside to crush the can.
Let's review what you've learned about air and air
1. Air has weight and takes up space.
2. Air exerts pressure on everything around it. This pressure is about 14.7 pounds per square inch at sea level.
3. Air may be compressed by forcing more air into a closed space. Liquids such as water cannot be compressed.
4. Bernoulli's Principle says that air pressure is lower in a moving air stream.
5. Air expands when warmed and contracts when cooled.
6. When air expands in a closed container, pressure increases. When air contracts in a closed container, pressure decreases.
This is quite a lot to know about air, but there is more!
Always be careful to follow all safety precautions when
using fire, and use with adult supervision only!
Keep your candle in an aluminum pie pan, and keep the flame
at least three feet away from anything that can burn, unless
otherwise instructed.
Materials Needed: Glass jar or tumbler; candle with safety holder.
Procedure: Light the candle. Carefully cover the candle with the glass container. Observe what happens.
Happened: The candle flame gradually died out.
You probably already know why. One of the gases in air
is oxygen, and oxygen is required for burning. The
candle flame will burn so long as there is oxygen inside of
the jar. However, when all of the available oxygen is
used up, the flame goes out. "Used up" may not be the
best phrase to describe what happens to the oxygen, and we'll
see why in just a bit.
Burning is one type of a process known as "combustion". Combustion is a chemical reaction that breaks down an element or compound, the fuel, by adding oxygen. This reaction releases energy in the form of heat.
Always be careful to follow all safety precautions when
using fire, and use with adult supervision only! Keep
your candle in an aluminum pie pan, and keep the flame at
least three feet away from anything that can burn, unless
otherwise instructed.
In the last experiment, you saw that oxygen is required for burning. In this experiment you will see two things that are produced by burning.
Materials Needed: Candle in a safety holder; glass jar or tumbler.
Procedure: Light the candle. Carefully hold the outside bottom of the glass container in the flame. What do you see?
What To Look For: Do you see any droplets of water on the glass? What else do you see?
What Happened: You should have seen droplets of water forming on the outside of the glass near the flame. Water vapor is produced when many fuels are burned. As the candle burned, water vapor was formed and condensed on the cooler surface of the glass.
You should have also seen some soot on the inside of the bottom. A candle burns because the melting wax produces a flammable gas, that serves as fuel for the burning candle. As the fuel burns, heat is produced. However, when many fuels burn, they don't burn completely. This soot from the candle flame is made mostly of carbon that did not completely burn.
Always be careful to follow all safety precautions when
using fire, and use with adult supervision only! Keep
your candle flame at least three feet away from anything
that can burn.
This experiment has been around for a long time. In fact, you may have already seen it at school, or may have done it yourself. But this experiment doesn't show what most people think it shows! Let's see why.
Materials Needed: Glass bowl; glass jar or tumbler; modeling clay; candle.
Procedure: Use a little modeling clay to make a holder for the candle in the bottom of the glass bowl. Also make three or four clay balls about 3 cm (1 in) in diameter. Press these balls onto the bottom of the bowl so that the jar or tumbler can rest on them when placed upside down over the candle. Make sure to leave some space between the three balls to allow water to move between them.
Fill the bowl with about 8 cm (3 in) of water. Light the candle and place the jar or tumbler upside down over the flame and allow the mouth to rest on the clay balls. Observe what happens as the candle goes out.
What To Look For: Watch the water level inside the jar. Do you see any air bubbling out from under the jar or tumbler as it was placed under the water? If you don't see this at first, repeat the experiment and watch for it.
What Happened: You should have seen the water level in the glass rise up about one fifth of the way up the side of the container. This is usually explained by saying that air is about one fifth oxygen, and that as the burning candle uses the oxygen, water is drawn up into the container to replace the oxygen. However, this isn't exactly correct.
It is true that air is about one fifth oxygen, and that the candle cannot burn without using oxygen. However, as the oxygen is being used up, another gas is being produced. As you saw in the last experiment, anything that is being burned produces water and may also produce carbon in the form of soot or ash. But the burning candle was also producing a gas called carbon dioxide. In fact, about as much carbon dioxide was being formed as oxygen was being used up.
Combining what we have learned so far, we cans say that burning can be represented by saying. "fuel combined with oxygen produces heat, carbon dioxide gas, water vapor and sometimes carbon or other substances". Burning can also be represented by the following equation:
Going Further: If carbon dioxide, a gas, is being produced by burning at the same time the oxygen is being used up, why does the water get drawn up into the container as the candle goes out? Think about this before you try the next experiment. Also, think about why some of the gasses bubbled out when you first placed the jar over the candle.
Always be careful to follow all safety precautions when
using fire, and use with adult supervision only! Keep
your candle flame at least three feet away from anything
that can burn.
This experiment takes a little while to set up, but it is well worth the time required to do it, and it solves the mystery of the missing gas from the last experiment!
Materials Needed: Glass bowl; glass jar or tumbler; modeling clay; candle; two used model rocket engine igniters (unused igniters will also work); paper match; tape; wire; 60 cm (2 ft) of insulated wire; 9 volt battery; plastic tubing or two flexible soda straws.
Procedure: Use modeling clay to make a candle holder and three small balls in the bottom of the bowl just as you did in the last experiment.
You will need two 30 cm (12 in) pieces of insulated wire. You can use wire from the Christmas light set used in the electricity experiments, or if you can find a small two wire electrical cord, you can have an adult to help you cut off a 30 cm (1 ft) piece of this cord. Carefully trim about 2 cm (½ in) of insulation from each end of both wires. Twist one end of each wire to each end of the igniter. Put a piece of tape over these twists to hold them securely.
Tape the igniter to the candle so that the center of the igniter touches the candle wick. Next, place the head of a paper match between the wick and the igniter. Make sure that the igniter, match head, and wick are touching firmly, and that the bare parts of the two wires leading to the igniter don't touch.
At this point, you should test
your setup to see if you have done everything properly.
Touch the other ends of the two wires to the terminals of the
battery. The thin wire of the igniter should heat up
enough to light the match, and the match should light the
candle. If it does not, check your setup
carefully. If needed, you may use small bits of modeling
clay or tape to hold everything in place. If you use an
unused igniter, the thin wire inside will heat the chemical
spot on the igniter causing it to burn. This will also
light the match.
Once your setup is working, rewire the candle for the rest of the experiment. Your igniter is probably good for two or three uses, but if the small wire is broken, replace the igniter with another one.
Fill the bowl with about 8 cm (3 in) of water. Place the jar upside down over the candle. Next, stick the rubber tubing up inside the jar above the water. (If you don't have rubber tubing, you can use two flexible drinking straws taped together.) Draw some of the air out of the jar to raise the water level inside about to about 1/4 the volume of the jar. Place your finger over the end of the tubing and pull it out. Stick a piece of tape on the side of the jar to mark the water level.
Use the battery to light the
candle as before. Observe what happens.
What To Look For: Carefully notice what happens to the water level from the time the candle lights until the time it goes out.
What Happened: As the candle began to burn, you should have seen the water level go down. However, when the candle burned out, the water level again rose, and returned to about the same level as at the beginning. Here's why.
When the candle was lit, the air inside the jar was heated. Oxygen was being consumed by the burning candle, but about the same volume of carbon dioxide was being formed at the same time, so the total volume of gases stayed about the same. However, remember that heated gases expand. So, the gases inside the jar expanded due to the heat, and pushed the level of the water down. By raising the level of water in the jar before you started the experiment, you were able to see the gases expand without letting them escape.
When the candle flame went out, the gases inside the jar began to cool. As gases cool they contract. The contracting gases caused the pressure to drop inside the jar and water was drawn back inside by the lowered pressure.
Remember that carbon dioxide is being formed as oxygen is being used up. Since about the same volume of carbon dioxide is being produced as oxygen is being used, and since you sealed all of the gases inside the jar, once the gases cooled, the water level inside of the jar didn't change all that much from when you started.
This experiment doesn't change the fact that oxygen is being used when fire burns. Nor does it change the fact that air is about one fifth oxygen. However, it does show that the water drawn up into the jar in the "classic" candle experiment is drawn up because of expanding and contracting of air, and not because oxygen is being used up. It is something of a coincidence that the water level rises up about one fifth of the way up the jar.
Always be careful to follow all safety precautions when
using fire, and use with adult supervision only!
Keep your candle in an aluminum pie pan, and keep the flame
at least three feet away from anything that can burn, unless
otherwise instructed.
Materials Needed: Steel wool or soap pad made from steel wool; scissors; candle with safety holder; pair of pliers or tongs; oven mitt.
Procedure: If you are using a soap pad, wash all of the soap out of the pad and allow it to dry. Cut a 3 cm (1 in) square from the steel wool or soap pad and spread out the steel strands. Next, light the candle. Using the oven mitt, grasp the steel wool with the pliers and hold the steel wool at arms length in the candle flame. Observe what happens.
What Happened: The steel wool burned in a shower of sparks. If iron is heated hot enough, and is cut into pieces small enough that are completely surrounded by oxygen, the iron will burn. This is another example of burning. You should have noticed some brown or black products produced by burning. This is called "iron oxide", but you know it better as rust.
You may have seen similar sparks while burning a sparkler. The sparks from a burning sparkler are also produced by bits of burning metal.