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Pirate's Tale
Home Town Heroes
70 Years of Love and Commitment
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Each of us has a small handful of people in our lives that have impacted, molded, and influenced who we have become. Their lessons are taught through example and demonstration. Their guidance is invaluable and sought without reservation. They lead by going before you, revealing sage and wisdom along the way. My grandparents, Bob and Mary Wilkes, are included in my small handful.
Bob and Mary were married 70 years ago on October 7th 1939. They made more than a commitment or a promise to one another on that day. They made a covenant. Now both at the age of 95 they still live out and keep that covenant made so many years ago. Not many couples have lived to see or can boast 70 years of marriage. Fewer yet can boast 70 years of a robust marriage.
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My grandfather is a shining example of patience. He is quick to listen and slow to anger. I have seen him show great restraint in frustrating situations. I have watched him remain calm when those around him come unraveled. His gentle understanding with my grandmother is something I can only hope to emulate with my own husband and children. I have often wondered if this patience was learned while on the U.S.S. Tripoli during "World War II" or if he was born with it.
My grandmother exemplifies perseverance and selflessness. I still stand in awe when I think about how she took care of her father-in-law after his stroke. She had a toddler in tow, my father, and her husband was gone to war. She did so much for others, putting them first. When I talked with her about this season of her life, I was shocked by her modest reply, "You just did what needed to be done." I try to think about my grandmother and what she did for others when I feel overwhelmed, overworked or stressed.
My father once told me that growing up with my grandparents was much like "Leave it to Beaver" or "Father Knows Best." He and his brother would watch these shows and think that's how everybody lived. It was what they knew and experienced in their house. It was not until later that they realized just how blessed they were and how exceptional their lives had been with my grandparents at the helm.
This loving couple has: raised two fine men, supported and encouraged three grandchildren, and have enjoyed sharing time with two great-grandchildren. They put family and each other before themselves. They still hold hands, give each other kisses, and make each other a priority. They may be older now but they still teach me something new every now and then about marriage, love, and what it means to live life to abundance.
Happy 70th Grandmere and Granddad! Thank you for your years of love and commitment to each other and to those of us around you. You are a shining beacon to us all.
Submitted by Erin Wesnitzer in love for her grandparents
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The Key Biscayne Chamber of Commerce is shining a spotlight on the island's stellar dining scene during the entire month of October 2016 during its Second Annual "Taste Paradise." Restaurants are welcoming diners to embark on a culinary journey in paradise.
The Chamber's Marketing Committee—chaired by Nora Camejo, Publisher of Key Biscayne's Lions Club Directory,—extended a special invitation to BHA residents to head over the Rickenbacker Causeway to Key Biscayne for "The World's Best Cuisine on One Island." Event organizers further elaborate:
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managing an LCHF lifestyle in Israel
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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."
– Bertrand Russell
Recently I spoke with a guy who read this blog. "Hard to believe" was his spontaneous reaction.
And yes, very hard to believe – and very worrying – doctors, dietitians, and other professionals who are supposed to take care of our health, know so little. (I really don't want to think about the alternative – that they know and ignore …)
There is nothing new! There are observational studies from almost 150 years ago to the present. There are also current studies, short and long term. And yet … For the last 50 years "low-fat" has become the motto for health, although none has managed to prove it. On the contrary, there are more and more studies who prove the importance of fat for our bodies (e.g. for prevention of Alzheimer.)
But who's surprised, when a lot of the studies (most of them?) are, directly or indirectly, sponsored by food and pharma companies?


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Welcome to the new look, The Theme Game! From now on, it's so simple! Redpeffer and I will choose a weekly theme and invite you to link up any posts that fit with it, old or new. It's a chance to give some older posts a new airing, or to write to your heart's content on the new theme – totally up to you, and we look forward to seeing what you come up with. I'll always announce the following week's theme at the bottom of Tuesday's posts, too, so you've plenty of time to write or find an appropriate post.
It is still a game, of course, so we'll pick a weekly winner, and then both Iona and I will share that post over several days for the world to read (well, our social media followers and readers anyway!). As always, we ask that you do take the time to visit some of the other posts, and Iona and I will add ours to the linky, too – I do love rifling through my archives!
Last week, our theme was 'family', and we had so many wonderful posts link up. We did manage to choose a winner, and our winner was Complicated Gorgeousness – well done! You can read the post here, and both Iona and I loved it.
This week, our theme is 'play', so come link up and share any play-themed posts. It'd be lovely if you can grab the badge, too. Look forward to reading…
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The demonic in me
In Arthur Versluis' The Philosophy of Magic he writes:
"There is one aspect of invocation that must be reiterated: the difference between expulsion of the demonic and invocation of the daimonic… the invocation of devic or celestial influences implies the expulsion of the lower, bestial or demonic creatures which ordinarily inhabit the mind of man – the demons of desire and hatred… Each time we manifest desire or aversion, we are bringing to life, signing a pact with, one of the demons of ego.
The reason the true magus – in the vernacular – 'consorts with demons' is to expulse those inner forms of ego. Every instant, every day that one lives without having expulsed those demons is a day lived in a tacit pact with them…For these reasons, the popular image of the magician as one who 'consorts with demons' is at once ironic … and accurate…"
This passage struck a chord with me, not least because it was a topic I was discussing with a friend not too long ago. He said that anything in your life which controls you instead of you controlling it, is demonic and calls for some kind of exorcism. That in itself resonated as I feel that I am undergoing an exorcism of my past at the moment which is freeing me physically and mentally. I know a couple of people who have confided in me that they are scared of their own alcohol intake that it is potentially problematic and yet they do nothing to change the situation – this could be classed (according to the above definition) as a form of demonic possession. Compulsive eating is demonic as the sufferer of this condition is most definitely under the control of the disorder, not the other way around. The uniting thread seems to be compulsion, a forcing of our will away from the middle path, often away from what we know is good for us: a compulsion to self-harm through excessive food, excessive alcohol, dangerous relationships or >insert your chosen 'sin' here<. Although I know that some people may get their knickers in a twist about me suggesting even indirectly that their 'weaknesses' are demonic and they are in need of an exorcism, I hope that they can overcome the knee-jerk response (which may indeed be the inner demon recoiling at being uncovered!) and consider the concept. I find the idea of almost personalizing the compulsions within very interesting. We can often recognise the compulsion, the end-product as it were, but not know the origins which is why we throw ourselves into therapy or compulsive repetition of our errors – so easily one demon can become legion within us if we don't deal with the original intruder; after all, once demon number one has settled into the comfort of an entrenched ego, why wouldn't he send out a general invite to his mates?
Yes, I am being flippant, but the concept still holds and it is helping me compartmentalise a mess of feelings inside me. So once the demon is identified, the question is, what to do? I think that is a personal decision, and I would not give a generalised answer to that when someone may take it as law and run with the idea right over a cliff (metaphorically speaking … although isn't that what Jesus did with the devil whose name was 'Legion'?). I am still pondering the nature of my demons, and bizarrely the thought of them doesn't scare me. Colin Wilson wrote a fantastically interesting novel called The Mind Parasites – creatures that have colonised the minds of all men [sic] and who control the fate of mankind by remaining hidden in the depths of the unconscious. After reading that book you never look at the dark, quiet corners of your own mind in the same way again! But where as these parasites frightened me, the concept of the demonic doesn't. I am keen to know them, because once known, once I have their name, I will be able to oust them from my being and I find that a very positive thought; just as once I admitted that my illness was psychosomatic, rather than clasping a sweaty hand to my forehead and curling up in victim mode at the wasted years and torments of my own mind (!) I felt hugely rejuvenated and empowered. Real chronic physical ailments are sometimes manageable but never curable. By admitting the potential psychosomatic origins of my illness, I have unleashed a flood of energy and uncovered some dark corners with the light optimism: if it is in my mind, then I can conquer it and be well. If the compulsions are demonic, I can know them and expel them. Of this I have no doubt.
The other aspect to this concept is that ego and habit energy is the resting place and breeding ground for such demonic energies. So logically, a two-pronged attack both on 'knowing your demons' and on breaking down ego and habit energy would be the most successful. I feel that the last month when I was riding on an artificial high (as genuine as it felt at the time, it was un-real), I was actually surfacing the wave of my ego. It felt good, it felt great, if felt compulsively, addictively wonderful – like too much chocolate, too much coffee, too much sex. And ultimately it was 'too much' of everything, it took me away from the middle path and I lost myself in 'feeling'. I brought a lot back from the journey – there are things I learned – but it showed me once again how deceptive the path of ego can be. We think we are being true to ourselves, when actually we are living a fantasy.
So there are a few essentials for me that come from the concept of the demonic: as Dion Fortune indicates in her book Psychic Self-Defence, the greatest protection is being very grounded in this life, being grounded enough to give a belly laugh at a good film. I am finding my Kundalini yoga supremely grounding; it is what broke the cycle of flying high-higher-highest and brought me gently back to earth. I am now incorporating a minimum of two meditation sessions a day, where I can tune back into myself and check how far I have strayed off the Beauty Path. And this new moon I shall be beginning some ritual work to face my demons. I have Sobek to my left and Anubis to my right, and I am more than ready to stare into the mouth of Apophis. May Osiris bless me and my path. It's time to know the demons, and really know my Self.
© starofseshat 2008
Hieros Gamos
There is a difference between feeling sexual and being sexual. We all know this. We have all felt sexual without having sex, and (dare I say especially women) have had sex without feeling sexual. And yet the 'feeling sexual' part of ourselves is always driven to completing the act. The goal is always physical union.
What if the actual goal is to feel sexual? To hold onto the buzzing energy that we get when we feel in tune. This feeling, I think, comes when we unite body and soul in ourselves. The spark for this internal union may be someone else, in fact is often sparked by the mutual (or one-sided!) affection for another person. We learn to love ourselves through the love we feel from another (imagined or real, and whatever the "quality"/sincerity of that love). We forget for a moment the imperfections of our body and stop beating ourselves up for not being this, or that. For a moment we just ARE, and bask in the affection of another, and revel in the union of our Selves.
The danger here is in thinking that physical union with the other is inevitable or necessary. We all know how the initial frisson fades after years or days (!) or a one-off sexual encounter (!). Suddenly we start seeing the imperfections of the other, and by logical deduction we believe our own clay feet to be revealed. Of all the women who have spoken to me about their sex lives over the years, not a single one has hoped that the actual sexual physical union would continue. Most are relieved when it fades out of the relationship and is replaced by a comfortable friendship (if they are lucky), and others suffer because they force themselves emotionally to give up their bodies for use on a regular basis, just "to get it over with" or just "so he stops pestering".
Maybe it is not surprising (although I've only just realised this while writing), that those women who have spoken to me about the wish to remove physical sex from their lives (bearing in mind I have friends who have NOT spoken about their sex lives!), these women have all had affairs. You might then think that in fact they did want sex, they were just bored with their partners or in unhappy relationships. But I don't think this is the case. Again, without exception, all the women have remained with their original partners who they love with all their hearts. I think that what they were chasing after was the non-substantial feeling of being whole. Someone walks into their life and makes them FEEL sexual. The hum-drum split between employee and woman, between friend and mother, between all the roles that women have to play, becomes one. They are Goddess. They are sexual, whole and admired. This is the Hieros Gamos (the sacred/holy wedding) of the Self. But chasing after this feeling through another person, even if that person is the spark, will only take you away from the unity with self. The grass is hardly ever greener on the other side. The man (or woman) you fall in love with is just a man (or woman). They are ultimately not the source for the sexual feeling; they are the spark, you are the kindling. Without a spark, the kindling stays unlit. Without kindling the spark extinguishes.
How amazing to maintain the sexual feeling, this Hieros Gamos with self, and to then use it in ritual! Remember what I have just written. I am not talking about a rite involving sex or some great orgy. I'm talking about harnessing a beautiful energy to bring us closer to deity. The physical and spiritual union with ourselves, surely has to precede any union with another, and more importantly with deity. Actual physical union in a ritual context would I think tie us more to this world and ultimately blind us to the real potential of sexual energy. I think it was David Conway who said that when sex enters ritual, any serious spirituality flies out the window. But to be in a state of Hieros Gamos with self, to share that feeling with others, to harness it to move closer to deity – could there be anything better?
Life is an initiation, a process of polishing our souls for ultimate union with God. I long for this union, and it is reflected as a speck in the feelings of wholeness I get from feeling sexual. My mind cannot conceive of the ultimate Hieros Gamos – but this is what I want, no less than total union with God.
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Happy 1st Birthday to this little gal! Loved having her in the studio for her first birthday portraits, you can see what a good time she was during her photoshoot! So thankful for all my clients who come all over Orange County and Los Angeles to see me- makes it easy being in Long Beach that it is central to both counties! A while back I shared my take on my daughters smash the cake session by making it a bit more natural, modern and just simple- which was some served as some inspiration for this babe's cake smash as well! I just love baby photography in the studio, something about the clean and minimal use of props in baby photography is just so natural and timeless to me!
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During Marcia Corey's 25+ years at the Reno County Early Education Center, she witnessed the incredible power of getting an early start with special needs children. But funding to build and sustain programs was always being "borrowed" for other things.
"I know that the earlier you start, the better kids do in school," Marcia said. "But we were always unsure of our funding, like with tobacco money that should have created over $1 billion in an endowment specifically for early education programs in Kansas. That money was redirected by the legislature to other projects."
So, when she and her husband John were looking to donate to the community, they saw an opportunity to create a stable funding source for Reno County programs for young children. "The Community Foundation helped us outline the priorities for an endowment fund, which gives the Early Education Center director the power to prioritize money for children from birth to five with special needs," she said.
Marcia's hope is to both reach more children and ensure that current services will still be available generations from now. "I hope we can educate families about the importance of education right at birth with these kiddos. So many times parents think that with newborns, you just love them, feed them and change their diapers. Their brains are growing so fast, especially from birth to three. And that's the prime time to shape that child."


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A concerned resident has criticised the county council for lowering a footpath two years ago which has made the road unsafe for pedestrians.
The change to the footpath in Floral Drive, London Colney, has frustrated residents because drivers think it is there to overtake other vehicles.
Resident Laurie Mason, said: "People see it as part of the road but it's meant to be a footpath.
"It just looks like an overtaking point in the road and my grandson has nearly been knocked down because of it."
He said that in wake of the footpath work and subsequent safety concerns, the council asked residents several months ago what improvements they wanted to Floral Drive. He continued: "They sent letters out asking us what we wanted them to do about the road and we said that we wanted them to put it back to how it was.
"That was about five months ago and we've heard nothing since."
A spokesperson for Herts County Council commented that the initial changes in the road had been made following complaints from residents about the condition of the footways and kerbs.
But after the work had been completed, a small number of residents voiced concerns that the new pavement was not safe.
She went on: "This is quite a narrow road and vehicles often drive up on the footway to pass cars coming in the opposite direction.
"To address these concerns, last year we consulted all residents of the road to get their views.
"These results are now being analysed and based on the findings we will decide if remedial work is needed."
She said that could include painting a white line down the road to re-establish the delineation between the road and the footway and if remedial work was required, funding would be allocated.
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PROLOGUE: There should be a follow up article by the UK Standard: "How to STOP fund managers invest in China's rare animal trade." Suggestion: Expose the persons not just the companies. For Vanguard it is Tim Buckley, for BlackRock it is Larry Fink - who are also among the top polluters on Earth: https://ecoterra.info/index.php/en/1077-the-3-top-polluters-of-earth
For Aberdeen Standard Investments it is one Neil Slater. For the Canadian state pension funds PM Justin Trudeau and for the Norwegian state pension funds King Harald V and PM Erna Stolberg are responsible. For INVESCO Ltd. one Martin L. Flanagan is CEO & Pres. He made $12,921,609 in total compensation according to proxy statements filed for the 2018 fiscal year. Of this total $790,000 was received as a salary, $3,300,000 was received as a bonus, $0 was received in stock options, $8,714,708 was awarded as stock and $116,901 came from other types of compensation. High time that they compensate for the suffering of precious wildlife.
How Britain's biggest fund managers invest your money in China's trade in rare animals
By Henry Williams - 22. November 2019
Some of London's biggest investors are accused of supporting the illegal wildlife trade by funding suppliers of traditional Chinese medicines (TCMs) which still make use of endangered species despite efforts to end the practice.
Household name fund managers including Aberdeen Standard Investments, Invesco, BlackRock, Vanguard and Norwegian and Canadian state pension funds are among companies invested in suppliers which have been found to be using leopard bone in their products.
The findings come despite China being signed up to international conventions banning the trafficking of endangered wildlife and the killing of wild leopards.
Campaigners found one of China's largest providers of TCMs, Beijing Tongrentang Pharmaceutical Co Ltd, advertises "medicinal wine" and pills for rheumatism that list leopard bone among their ingredients.
BlackRock Fund Advisors, Aberdeen International Fund Managers Ltd and Norges Bank Investment Management, are among the shareholders of Tongrentang's Hong Kong-listed subsidiary, Beijing Tongrentang Chinese Medicine Co Ltd.
"You can see on the medicine's packaging there is a green Chinese government-issued sticker saying leopard bone," says Aron White, a campaigner at the Environmental Investigation Agency. "The Chinese characters don't distinguish between type so it's not just leopard but potentially rare snow leopard or clouded leopard as well."
Tongrentang is valued on the stock market at 37.5 billion yuan (£4.12 billion) and it has outlets worldwide, including in Shaftesbury Avenue. It was previously discovered to be selling an arthritis treatment in Australia which contained traces of snow leopard. Leopards are among Asia's most endangered animals and have been wiped out from 85% of their former range.
The killing of leopards for their bone was banned in China in 2006, with companies told they could only use existing stocks. But campaigners think hunting continues due to the large volume of bone still in circulation.
China's State Forestry and Grasslands Administration (SFA) has issued hundreds of permits for medicine companies to trade in protected wildlife. Just one such permit discovered by journalists in 2018 allowed the supplier, known to trade in clouded leopards, to issue 1.2 tonnes of leopard bone.
Another TCM firm found to be selling products containing leopard bone, Tianjin Zhongxin Pharmaceutical Co Ltd, is on the Singapore stock exchange.
Its Chinese website advertises "activity pills" that contain leopard bone, while its Chinese trading companies have been given nine SFA permits over the past two years, most recently in July. Bloomberg data shows investors include Invesco, BlackRock, Vanguard and the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board. TCMs have been touted by analysts at JPMorgan, UBS and others as an asset class for investors seeking exposure to China to target. A PwC report has noted that among the challenges were the "potential exhaustion of herbal or animal resources".
Most of the fund managers' exposure to these companies is due to them aiming to track the Hang Seng or Singapore indices rather than directly targeting the individual firms.Previously, Aberdeen's China A Shares Equity Fund, which benchmarks the China MSCI A Index, contained Tongrentang's Chinese parent before it dropped out of the fund.
"These might be passive investments, but you can still do something about it," one investment banking source said. "When some tracker funds were linked to American firms making cluster bombs they divested themselves pretty quickly."
With most firms operating sustainability policies that prevent unethical investing, any exposure to TCM companies could prove problematic.
BlackRock, which declined to comment, commits in its mission statement "to using our resources responsibly to support the long-term sustainability of our firm and of the global environment", while Norges Bank is bound by a Norwegian parliament order banning investments in companies which violate "fundamental ethical norms".
Aberdeen said: "We regularly engage with companies on issues, such as product quality and supply-chain management. We are speaking with Tongrentang on this serious issue."
Vanguard said, "These holdings are in index funds, which are obligated to track their benchmark. The benchmarks are developed and maintained by independent, third-party companies. Vanguard's investment stewardship team regularly engages with the companies it invests in on corporate governance matters."
The TCM companies and the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board did not respond to requests for comment.
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"A policy of comprehensive immigration reform will also support our economy by preventing the exploitation of workers who lack legal status, despite in some instances living in the United States for almost their entire lives," Clarke, who represents Brooklyn's 9th Congressional District and is herself the daughter of immigrants from Jamaica, says. "With legal status and an opportunity for citizenship, these workers will finally have the ability to benefit from the rights guaranteed to American laborers and thus become full participants in our civil society."
Clarke had written to the President a second time ahead of his State of the Union address in order to urge him to put an end to the deportation of Caribbean and other immigrants – an appeal made together with Arizona Congressman Raul M. Grijalva.
Clarke told the Caribbean Media Corporation that the continuing deportation of immigrants from the Caribbean who do not have legal status in the United States has caused the separation of many families and called for the policy to be scrapped, noting that it jeopardized the welfare of the very people that might benefit from immigration reform.


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Sanyukta is very worried thinking what could have happened at her home. She's afraid that something may have happened to his dad. She starts packing. Kastuki informs her that there's a bus drivers strike. Sanyukta calls her mum, but she's not picking up. Sanyukta feels something is definitely wrong, and she decides to leave now. Kastuki tells her it's not safe to leave this late. Sanyukta says her family problem is more important than her safety. She leaves.
Parth sees her leaving and asks her where she's going. She says she's going home, and she doesn't have time to explain. He tells her to go tomorrow, but she doesn't listen saying it's not her first time. Randhir hears their conversation.
Sanyukta is walking on the road and sees a shadow, someone following her. She gets afraid. Other hand, Kastuki is worried. Vidushi comes and asks if Sanyukta went to club to celebrate as she finished her task. Kastuki tells someone is sick at her home. Vidushi says, so she left without anyone's permission? Kastuki lies that she took permission from Vardhan.
Sanyukta is waiting for the bus. It finally arrives. She was getting in and loses her balance and almost falls down, but Parth comes and catches her on last moment. She's surprised to see him. He says he knew she would not listen to anyone, so he came following her. She says she reached till bus stop and asks him to go back to the college, but Parth says he will also go along with her. He has seen roads more than her, and it's not safe. She tries sending him back, but he covers her mouth and says she talks too much. He gets in the bus.
Randhir doesn't see Parth and asks Jiggy. Jiggy says he saw him in the evening last. Randhir says in his mind, they both are going out of control now. He traces Sanyukta's phone and finds out that they are on highway. He says, I was right. She took him with her at her home this late, and he also went. That loser has no other work beside Sanyukta.
In bus, few men try to misbehave with Sanyukta. Parth gets mad. Sanyukta tells him to leave. He warns the men, but they push him. Parth gets angry and beats them up. He asks them to leave if they don't want to lose their lives. They leave. Randhir is getting curious. In bus, Sanyukta thanks Parth. They are sitting together now. Sanyukta falls asleep on his shoulder. And him on her head. Randhir cannot just believe. He says they can go to hell, I will handle the Dream Team project.
Delhi's stop arrives. Both Sanyukta and Parth are sleeping, and they miss the stop. Randhir wonders where they are going now. They have gone ahead of Delhi. Why they didn't get down. He will says he will trace them down. He leaves on his bike as well. The conductor asks everyone to leave as this is last stop. Both finally wake up. Sanyukta gets mad. The conductor informs them that Delhi already passed. Parth calms Sanyukta down saying they will find a way. They get down. Parth asks some people around. They say there is a bus stop, they will find a bus there. They show them a direction from jungle as that's quicker. Parth says it's not safe to go from jungle this late. Sanyukta says she can't miss the bus at any cost. They proceed.
Sanyukta is scared. Parth asks her to hold her hand. She says she's not scared, it's just she is not used to go from jungle. He holds her from a side and asks if she's scared now. She says no and they proceed.
Sanyukta asks Parth if he thinks there would be animals in jungle. He says, you only wanted to come here. She says, she is not afraid, she is just asking like that. She's tensed. He asks her what happened. She says she is worried about her dad. She decides to call her home, but there is no network and her battery has almost died.
Randhir finds the bus and gets worried not seeing them around. He says, she only found Parth to go with. He will save himself somehow, but what about her. She comes to him for help every time and in this serious matter, she found Parth? He says, I just hope, she's safe.
Precap: Sanyukta is lying on the ground. Parth is searching for her. He spots her and runs towards her. He sees a snake passing from there. He asks her where snake bit her, but she is not in condition to speak anything.
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I took my lunch at the company cafeteria today with Blackie and my 2 other female colleagues — Kim and Faye. I got myself a plate of chicken rice, Blackie and Kim were having Fish n' Chips. Faye got herself a plate of Chicken Chop.
As shitty as it reputated to be, the cafeteria actually served the Fish n' Chips without tartar sauce – they temporarily ran out of sauce, and asked Blackie & Kim to wait. Hungry, Blackie hoovered the fish without the sauce but poor Kim had to wait for about 10 minutes before she got herself some sauce.
So, by the time Kim gets to start working on her fish, I had already finished my lunch and was hanging around there for some chat. That was when our lab technician came to join our table…followed by his middle aged guy friend.
As I had nothing to do then, I decided to make Kim's lunch more interesting…
Me : "Hey Kim… let me ask you something, do you have any idea what does tartar sauce made of?"
Kim : "No idea."
Me : "Well… let me give you a hint. It comes from a cow."
Kim : "Comes a cow? Really? From its lard is it?"
Me : "No… not the lard. It is actually made from cow's puke. Believe it girl…"
Faye : "You seriously think we're going believe that?"
Kim : "Hahah… right. You're so lame." *continue to eat her fish*
Me : "It's alright if you don't believe me. You know Thousand Island dressing for your salad? They're made from blended cow brain…"
Kim : "I'm not that gullible, you should try harder."
But my bullshits caught some unexpected attention – the middle aged bloke who came with our technician. I noticed the guy first gave me this perplexed look and then asked me this – "Seriously, a cow's brain? They really use a cow's brain???".
He was such a fucking stupid idiot. His remarks actually made all of us at that table pause for approximately 2 seconds… before breaking into a laughter. Faye was pointing at that guy when she was laughing… and Kim had some of her half chewed fish spurting out of her mouth.
I don't know man, but I think his IQ level must be equivalent to that of a lab rat. I never thought someone would actually believe the shit I made up to gross the girls. Not especially from a guy who's rife with experience and age. Anyhow, after we've had laughed enough, I made an effort to tell the guy that it was meant to be a sick joke… and he probably shouldn't take it too seriously.


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How Systems Have Failed My Son this Mother's Day
By Jennifer Hoff
The most difficult part of having our young, mentally-ill, adult son locked up in solitary confident in California State Prison for months at a time is not the emotional and mental pain his father, little brothers and I experience as a result of him losing, "in person" contact privileges again or other punishments he might be subjected to that are analogous with such a placement. It is not the overwhelming sadness that arises when you realize you can't remember your child's smell because you have not been allowed to hug him for almost a year, nor the missing of his sweet voice during a phone call. It is not the daily emotional turmoil of having horrific mental images flash by the minds eye as an incessant reminder of his dire situation. It is not even that he was allowed to suffer mentally for over three years, denied the very psychiatric medications that he was prescribed from age 12 to quell his frenetic thinking and allow him to process his interactions with the world in a safe and more humane manner.
As a mother, what is most difficult is that his situation is the predictable outcome of our abysmal system of criminalizing those who "act out" despite lacking the cognitive capacity to do otherwise. We saw this coming for over 15 years and there was absolutely nothing we could do to prevent our son from being punished for his disability and being sucked into the revolving door of the criminal justice system once he turned 18.
We sought out help for Matthew very early (age 5) as his mental health symptoms began interferring with him attending public schools. We had access to private doctors and therapists, had the resources to pay for treatment and the wherewithal to request special education services from our school district. We had the stamina to navigate, for years, a broken mental health system. A system in which no one who is "in charge" seems to be held accountable to help these sick children; nor informs you (the parents) that every provider at the case-planning meetings are hiding their ball under the table to effectively and covertly play the game of "pass the buck" shuffle. Ultimately, those "in charge" denied services for my son as long as possible to avoid costs and save the bottom line.…. For years, Matthew's father and I paid out of pocket to send him to a clinical day program run by a team of doctors at a highly respected university. The clinical-day program was eventually exchanged for a dozen failed special educational public school placements, which again failed our son. Ultimately, we were faced with all roads leading to the need for a intensive (and expensive) locked facility; an incredibly difficult decision had to be made.
As Matthew's needs increased, the willingness of our county agencies to provide for them diminished. Eventually, only legal action proved effective in forcing our school district and county behavioral health departments to meet their legal obligations of providing appropriate educational and psychiatric services for our disabled boy.
The worst part of this journey has been the nausea that comes with knowing my son's experience is the norm; that this outcome is one of many predictable tragic end points for individuals like Matthew who "don't respond" to the current protocol of medications and talk therapy. He has found his peer group in prison. The overwhelming majority of his neighbors are young men who also suffer from debilitating psychosis, paranoia and delusions, and who have lived in their awful set of circumstances from before they were even able to legally drive a car.
Most of the prisoners Matthew has met have previously been in the foster and/or juvenile "justice" cog from the young age of 10. They have been labeled as "troubled" and "delinquent", yet denied medications or treatment or even basic therapeutic services before the preventable tragedy occurs that drove them into the criminal justice system. These young venerable young people do not stand a chance once they are "in trouble with the law" because necessary mental health interventions will be withheld and they will inevitably be funneled into youth or adult prisons… many before they even hit puberty.
If you had asked me when Matthew was younger and still at home, cycling his way through ineffective treatments, how I was doing, I would have most likely burst into tears; for navigating the pediatric side of this nightmare was an incomprehensible, demoralizing experience that each year left its marks on my psyche and spirit. The pain of watching your child be discarded like trash by the very agencies tasked with his care is not easily explained to even the closest friends. Today when folks ask me the same question my response is less emotional but rarely is it a complete answer….. for even folks who actually might know our story, or who work in the "field of mental health" find it hard to grasp the reality that our system isn't filled with "cracks" for these young people to fall into. Rather, to everyone's surprise and dismay, instead of cracks, there is a looming cliff that we systematically push young people off of when they age into adulthood.
Nowadays my response to the "how are you doing" question, yields a filtered mantra of "pretty good considering…" or "well I am still here…" . I make it a point to share our story with anyone and everyone who will listen; not to be a source of pain for people, but rather to leverage the pain I feel into becoming the motivation they need to jump into action and become part of the solutions.
This is our modern day human rights crisis…throwing away children into a churning system for the past 15-20 years has not only been a costly, failed, social experiment of being "tough on crime," but more egregiously, it has stolen the futures of thousands of young folks, by answering their cries of help with a lock and key. Most "troubled youth" are not born that way…they are generally created out of years of neglect, abuse, misdiagnosis, and failed treatment; and then severely penalized when they act out with the very behaviors that textbooks outline-- the step by step progression from victim to offender. We know these facts, yet somehow the past few decades have been marked with an all out war against the treatment of childhood offenders and a refusal to allow for the degree of cognitive functioning the individual possessed to be used as a method of defense aimed at rehabilitation over incarceration.
We have criminalized behaviors psychiatrists say are "normal" for an immature, traumatized or sick brains…we know that some brains are different and lack capacity to fully function, yet our leaders have allowed generations of children to be swallowed into the pit of the criminal justice system to be forgotten.
I have hope though, and I know we are not alone. I know some families experience this same journey but with an even more tragic outcome. I am grateful for the work advocates and non-profits are doing both in the mental health reform and juvenile justice fields. These broken systems will not self-correct and it is up to impacted individuals and families to demand they change for the better.
I have perspective, our story's tragic ending didn't create catastrophic collateral damage to our child or to our community. For this, we know were are the lucky ones.
Last Mother's Day when I went to see my son, he was able to visit me in person for a change. We really enjoyed each other, holding hands and hugging…being face to face, looking in the same beautiful auburn eyes that peered up at me when he was a baby swaddled in my arms. Now, despite the new homemade tattoos he had someone ink on his beautiful face, (because it seemed like a good idea "at the time"…he says, "sorry mom") he is still my boy deserving of help.
Jennifer Hoff is a concrned mom and juvenile justice advocate.


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Pay Attention to Daniel's Prophecy
Posted in Jehovah's Witnesses on January 10, 2014
The Watchtower Society has a long history of failed prophecies based on their uniquely flawed interpretation of the Bible. The Society is releasing at its 1999 "God's Prophetic Word" District Conventions a new book that reinforces the label of "false prophet" that Christians have long applied to the organization.
Pay Attention to Daniel's Prophecy! is, like the earlier book Revelation: Its Grand Climax at Hand, a "commentary" that applies the Society's eschatological (i.e., "end times") doctrines to the Bible. One of the most intriguing sections of Pay Attention… is the analysis of the King of the North and the King of the South from Daniel 11. The changes that the Watchtower Society has made in its teachings regarding the identities of these kings is yet another example of the unreliability of Watchtower prophecy. The remainder of this article will examine the current Watchtower explication of Daniel 11, noting how and when this explication supports and differs from past Society teachings.
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Aviator was founded in December 2010 when Aviator acquired the Swedish company Nordic Aero, and the two Norwegian companies Røros Flyservice and Norport Ground Handling. In April 2011 we expanded further with the purchase of the Danish companies Novia and Sturup Handling. In 2014 Aviator acquired the former Servisair and Swissport operations at Gatwick, Birmingham, Newcastle and Helsinki. In April 2015 Aviator expanded in the UK-market by adding Manchester to its network. Aviator takes a strategic review of it´s business and exits Birmingham, Edinburgh, Gatwick and Newcastle in November 2016. In September 2019, Aviator closed Manchester as an effect of the liquidation of Thomas Cook.
Aviator is a part of Avia Solutions Group, the largest aerospace business group from Central & Eastern Europe with 83 offices and production stations providing aviation services and solutions worldwide.
Avia Solutions Group unites a team of more than 7000 professionals, providing state-of-the-art solutions to aviation industry and beyond:
- Aircraft Leasing and Trading
- Aviation Consulting Services
- Aviation IT Solutions
- Aviation Media and Events
- Aviation Training and Personnel Resourcing
- Business Aviation and VIP airline
- Cargo Aviation
- Charter Broker
- Flight Ops and Dispatchers
- Ground Handling, Fueling & Transport
- MRO: Aircraft and Helicopters
- Public Transportation Solutions
- Railway Freight Transport
- Time Critical Logistics
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For more information about Avia Solutions Group, please visit www.aviasg.com
Aviator is a Nordic one-stop shop for aviation services. We are a full-range provider of aviation services, taking care of passengers and equipment at 15 airports from Copenhagen to Tromsö. We guarantee high quality and stable service throughout the Nordic region and can meet all your support service needs, from passenger and baggage handling through de-icing, cargo and full freight handling to station services, including airport security and the NORDIC DINO Aircraft Washing Robot.
With our dedication to efficiency, safety and innovation and with our commitment to delivering high quality service on time we aim to be a global leader in aviation services.
Mission Everyone in Aviator is committed to delivering the right service with the right quality at the right time, focusing on excellence for the shared benefit of customers, shareholders and employees
We are tolerant of one another and we respect one another's individuality. We give everyone the same opportunity to succeed, and when they do, this is recognised and rewarded.
We are willing to change in order to improve. We are open-minded and curious, always looking for new ideas and better ways of working.
We take great pride in our work and we are driven by our enthusiasm to do it to the best of our ability. It is a joy to serve our customers well.
Customer focus
We want to deliver high quality solutions to our customers. We work proactively to anticipate customer needs and then ensure our service meets them.
We are committed to acting professionally as we carry out our work. We create a supportive environment for co-workers and provide constructive feedback when needed. We take ownership of our goals and make sure we reach them.


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Formed way back in 1988, The Haywains began as part of the Bristol area's thriving indiepop scene during the late 80's and early 90's. Delivering riotous jangle-pop with a playful boy/girl dual vocal delivery, singer Jeremy's much loved on-stage banter always provides a thoroughly entertaining live show!
The Haywains produced a string of no-frills punk-pop records for emerging labels of the time, including singles for Elefant Records (Spain), Four Letter Words (USA) and three albums for Vinyl Japan. After eight years together playing nationwide, the Midsomer Norton based six-piece called it a day in 1996.
The band reconvened in 2013, a date which marked the 25th Anniversary of their original formation. With four original members on board, the current line-up have already notched up shows in Europe and the US. Refreshingly, the band are offering more than just nostalgia. With two new singles already in the bag and a third on the way in 2016, the band's current live shows deliver the hits both old and new. Younger audiences are discovering a vintage band still at their most invigorating and wittiest best.
Songwriter Paul Towler is also the founder of other recording bands The Westfield Mining Disaster and The Casswells while singer Jer Hunt co-runs Bristol based punk label Cider City Records. As well as the international popfest circuit, the band continue to perform around the UK today.


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2020 Ford F-250 Interior, Specs And Price – Typically the approaching 2020 Ford F-250 can be a pickup truck which will is suitable for carrying this freight. Even though the F-series are performing magic to the Glowing blue Oblong carmaker, the actual selection will be ranged right from gentle-task pickup trucks for each day make use of for the large-task pickups. F-250 is among all those pickup trucks. This is fantastic for dragging together with carrying.
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Summertime Smiles
Here are some of my favorite images from a Photo Shoot this month. What a lovely time I had photographing this young lady — she had so much poise, grace and to top it all off – a beautiful angelic smile. Such a natural in front of the camera with none of the awkwardness that kids generally have. I specially love the photograph below because it is under a tree in her backyard that is her favorite spot – what a special place for a little girl to read and daydream 🙂
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The Prince George's County government, the NAACP and the Prince George's County NAACP are moving forward with their lawsuit against the U.S. Census Bureau on the basis that it is unprepared for 2020 Census, which will lead to an undercount of communities of color.
The plaintiffs, which include Prince George's County NAACP President Robert Ross and Executive Committee Member Elizabeth Johnson, initially filed their complaint on March 28, 2018, against Census Bureau Acting Director Ron Jarmin, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross and President Donald Trump.
The case, which is currently pending in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, contends communities of color, including Prince George's County, have been repeatedly undercounted in the past.
CLICK HERE to read the full article on the PGC Sentinel website.
The NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program (ECJ) supports community leadership to address human and civil rights issues resulting from environmental and climate-related causes, by advocating for these three objectives:
1. Reduce Harmful Emissions, Particularly Greenhouse Gases…
by combining action on shutting down coal plants and other toxic facilities at the local level, as well as preventing the construction of new toxic facilities; with advocacy to strengthen development, monitoring, and enforcement of regulations at federal, state, and local levels. This also includes a focus on corporate responsibility and accountability.
2. Advance Energy Efficiency and Clean Energy Legislation…
by working at the state level on campaigns to pass renewable energy and energy efficiency standards while simultaneously working at the local level with businesses, unions, similarly-goaled organizations, and others on developing projects to ensure communities of color are accessing revenue-generating opportunities in the new energy economy; while providing safer, more sustainable mechanisms for managing energy needs for our communities and beyond.
3. Strengthen Community Resilience and Livability…
by working to ensure communities are equipped to engage in sustainability/climate action planning which integrates policies and practices on advancing food justice, advocating for transportation equity, upholding civil and human rights in emergency management, and facilitate participatory democracy.
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The NAACP Economic Department recognizes the importance of the economy and economic issues in advancing an equal opportunity society and aims to address the challenging economic realities facing our country including poverty, lack of jobs and disproportionate high unemployment, lack of affordable housing, foreclosures, etc. The NAACP Economic Department's work enhances the capacity of African Americans and other underserved groups through financial economic education; individual and community asset building initiatives; diversity and inclusion in business hiring, career advancement and procurement; and monitoring financial banking practices.
The NAACP advocates for smarter, results-based criminal justice policies to keep our communities safe, including treatment for addiction and mental health problems, judicial discretion in sentencing, and an end to racial disparities at all levels of the system.
The United States is home to the world's largest prison population. As "tough on crime" laws have put an unprecedented number of non-violent offenders behind bars in recent years, our neighborhoods feel no more secure. CLICK HERE to view the NAACP Criminal Justice Fact Sheet
The NAACP works to ensure that all disadvantaged students and students of color are on the path to college or a successful career by ensuring access to great teaching, equitable resources, and a challenging curriculum. We are dedicated to eliminating the severe racial inequities that continue to plague our education system. Our ultimate goal is that every student of color receives a quality public education that prepares him or her to be a contributing member of a democracy.
Heart disease is the number one cause of death in Prince George's County, in the state of Maryland and in the country. But although heart disease related deaths are decreasing overall in the country, it remains a major health concern for our residents in Gorgeous Prince George's.
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Utility scale solar PV tariff hits new low at $0.024/kWh as Dubai adds 250MW of PV to CSP project
Dubai's DEWA amends plan to add further 250MW of photovoltaic solar panels to the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has announced plans to expand the fourth phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar (MBR) Park.
The state utilty said it has signed an amendment to the power purchase agreement with the consortium led by Saudi Arabia's ACWA Power which includes adding 250MW of photovoltaic solar panels, at a cost of 2.4 US cents per kilowatt hour.
This price equals the lowest price ever recorded for a large-scale solar project in the Emirates – $0.0242/kWh – which was offered in March 2017 by the joint venture of JinkoSolar and Marubeni for a 1.17 GW solar project in Abu Dhabi.
The previous lowest price in Dubai was that of Phase III of the MBR solar park, which is planned to have a capacity of 800MW and is currently being developed by a consortium formed by Masdar, the Abu Dhabi-based developer of renewable energy, Spain-based GranSolar and Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV), which is a unit of the Saudi Arabian firm, Abdul Latif Jameel.
In May 2016, the consortium offered a tariff of $0.029/kWh, at the time the world's lowest solar bid ever recorded.
With this addition, the total capacity of the fourth phase of the MBR solar park will rise from 700MW to 950MW, a statement said, adding that the total investment for the project has increased to AED16 billion ($4.36 billion).
Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and chairman of The Executive Council of Dubai, said: "The capacity expansion of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park's further consolidates the UAE's leadership in the field of sustainable development and provides another impetus to our clean energy strategy.
"The UAE's leaders accord this sector high priority in their vision for the nation's future... We see this project being a unique model for large clean energy projects elsewhere in the world. This ambitious initiative also adds a new facet to our cooperation with two of our strongest partners, Saudi Arabia and China," he added.
Noor Energy 1 was launched in a partnership between DEWA, ACWA Power and China's Silk Road Fund to build the fourth phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park.
The project will use three technologies to produce clean energy - 600MW from a parabolic basin complex, 100MW from a solar tower and 250MW from photovoltaic panels.
The project will have the world's tallest solar tower at 260 metres, and the largest thermal energy storage capacity in the world of 15 hours, which allows for energy generation round the clock.
The 13MW photovoltaic first phase became operational in 2013. The 200MW photovoltaic second phase of the solar park was launched in March 2017 while the 800MW photovoltaic third phase will be operational by 2020.


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Grace Kelly, Princess and Style Icon exhibition
Client: Heydar Aliyev Center
Location: Baku / Azerbaijan
Year: 2015
The exhibition, the first of its kind in Azerbaijan, features over 200 pieces including the most favourite vehicles of the Princess. The latter ones were presented to the broad audience for the first time in Baku. The exhibition also dispays a variety of Grace Kelly's garments from her movies, as well as the ceremonial dresses she wore once she became Princess of Monaco. The history of each costume along with interesting facts related thereto are also available. Paraphernalia of Grace Kelly also includes her favourite shoes, necklaces, gloves, and handbags. Grace Kelly's garments and accessories presented at the exhibition further reveal the character of a personality that succeeded in becoming a true idol for millions. Her famous saying 'I'm loyal as to my old clothes as to my old friends' was a media quote for quite a while. The exhibition reveals the phenomenon of Grace Kelly as a symbol of style and simplicity through this dictum.
The Grace Kelly, Princess and Style Icon show was initially launched in Monaco back in 2007, attended by over 135 thousand visitors. In later years, the display was held in Paris, Moscow, Rome, São Paulo, Toronto, Bendigo, Astana, Montreal, Doylestown, and Apeldoorn.


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We drove to Washington, MO today, to celebrate Baby Easton's soon-to-be March 17th arrival! I loved the theme of this shower, from the colors, to the deer, to the camoflauge.
The first gifts were from Katy's older sister, most of which were handmade, custom ordered and beautiful! She received several onesies with "Cray Cray Adorbs", "Totes Magoats", and "Big E" (for Easton) with "Thug Life" on the back. These sisters share such a special bond. Reminds me of me and my sister 🙂
All of these wall hangings were handmade by her sister. I'm thinking she needs her own etsy!
And her sister made this adorable quilt, which I'm sure we'll be using as a background for some of Easton's newborn pics because I just love these colors!
And now moving on to some more adorable gifts….you know every little, baby boy needs some Carhartt overalls.
Katy and Mammaw. Cray Cray Adorbs.
In the summer of 2012, I shot Katy's wedding. Here is a pic with her girls then. And all but one were at her shower to celebrate Baby Easton. So special!
And one of them even has her own baby boy now 🙂
And though I was not there to take official maternity pictures, I still had Katy run outside to get a couple shots in the snow of course!
Can't wait to meet you, Baby Easton!!
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Table of contents
Black holes
Different types of stars
Dying stars create elements
What is a star?
From the perspective of a person here on Earth, a star is a fixed luminous point in the night sky.
When examined more closely they are revealed to be huge, hot, glowing spheres of gas and plasma, most of which are a million times larger than Earth, powered by nuclear fusion.
The very first stars in the universe were originally made of up hydrogen gas and helium gas.
When stars explode they create heavier elements and huge gas clouds. Over tens of millions of years these gas clouds condense together, under the influence of gravity, to create new stars. These new stars start off as mostly hydrogen and helium, but also have other elements.
Size of the Sun
Sun has a diameter 109 times wider than Earth.
Volume depends on diameter x diameter x diameter
Volume = diameter 3
Sun has volume __________________ times larger than Earth.
How are stars formed?
Observations, combined with computer models, show that solar systems – including stars – formed from giant molecular clouds. Learn more here Formation of the solar system
How are stars powered?
Stars are powered by nuclear fusion. Click here!
What do stars look like in the nighttime sky?
The Bortle Scale: Demonstrating how light pollution adversely affects our view of the night sky. How many stars are visible on a cloudness night in these environments: inner city, urban-suburban transition, suburban, rural, typical dark-sky site, excellent dark-sky site
Interactive app: Demonstrating how light pollution adversely affects our view of the night sky
What is the structure of a star?
Here we see that stars are not simple, but in fact have structures.
How are stars in balance
Stars exist in a balance.
Gravity tries to compress everything to the center
Thermal radiation pressure, from all the nuclear fusion, pushes everything outwards.
As long as these forces are balanced the star is stable.
In some stars there is more mass, hence more gravity.
That would tend to make the star denser and hotter.
But in response there is more nuclear fusion, increasing the outward pressure.
Again, a balance exists, although the star may be at a different density and size.
What type of star is our Sun?
The Sun is a G-type, main-sequence star.
This is a Hertzsprung–Russell diagram. Stars of greater luminosity are toward the top. Stars with higher surface temperature are toward the left.
The Sun is often informally referred to as a yellow dwarf (although its light is closer to white than yellow.)
About 4% of stars in our galaxy are of this type.
This type of star outshines most other types of stars.
What is the expected fate of our sun?
A G-type main-sequence star will fuse hydrogen for approximately 10 billion years, until it runs out of hydrogen molecules at the center of the star.
When this happens, the star expands to many times its previous size and becomes a red giant, such as Aldebaran.
Eventually the red giant sheds its outer layers of gas, which become a planetary nebula, while the core rapidly cools and contracts into a compact, dense white dwarf.
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Short videos for stars/black holes.
Learning Standards
HS-ESS1-1. Use informational text to explain that the life span of the Sun over approximately 10 billion years is a function of nuclear fusion in its core. Communicate that stars, through nuclear fusion over their life cycle, produce elements from helium to iron and release energy that eventually reaches Earth in the form of radiation.
A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas (2012)
Stars' radiation of visible light and other forms of energy can be measured and studied to develop explanations about the formation, age, and composition of the universe. Stars go through a sequence of developmental stages—they are formed; evolve in size, mass, and brightness; and eventually burn out. Material from earlier stars that exploded as supernovas is recycled to form younger stars and their planetary systems. The sun is a medium-sized star about halfway through its predicted life span of about 10 billion years.
By the end of grade 12. The star called the sun is changing and will burn out over a life span of approximately 10 billion years. The sun is just one of more than 200 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, and the Milky Way is just one of hundreds of billions of galaxies in the universe. The study of stars' light spectra and brightness is used to identify compositional elements of stars, their movements, and their distances from Earth.
ESS1.B Some objects in the solar system can be seen with the naked eye. Planets in the night sky change positions and are not always visible from Earth as they orbit the sun. Stars appear in patterns called constellations, which can be used for navigation and appear to move together across the sky because of Earth's rotation.
Benchmarks: American Association for the Advancement of Science
The patterns of stars in the sky stay the same, although they appear to move across the sky nightly, and different stars can be seen in different seasons. 4A/E1
Stars condensed by gravity out of clouds of molecules of the lightest elements until nuclear fusion of the light elements into heavier ones began to occur. Fusion released great amounts of energy over millions of years. 4A/H2cd


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Great for all-purpose student use. U.S. Map on one side with World Map on other side. Clearly defines capitals, political boundaries, and time zones. Includes Europe inset map. Corresponds with Classroom Wall Map. 18" x 13" Laminated
Social Studies : Maps & Map Skills
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"Few IT organizations are getting additional budget, so CIOs must figure out how to invest in the new technology and services required to build a private cloud," says Sean McDermott, CEO of Windward IT Solutions, a consultancy that focuses on designing Service-Centric IT projects. "For some IT managers, the only way to find funding for future investments is by taking cost out of business right now."
Alan Jochposted earlier this week in BizTech, "A Practical Path to the Cloud,"quoting our CEO Sean McDermott.The article highlights the two roadblocks that many organizations face: budget and culture. Read the full article here.


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11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 (11beta-HSD1) activates cortisol (F) from cortisone (E). Our recent human studies identified 11beta-HSD1 to the non-pigmented layer (NPE) of the ocular ciliary epithelium, confirming that this enzyme is integral to the physiology of aqueous humour (AH) production vital for the maintenance of intraocular pressure (IOP). 11beta-HSD1 has also been implicated in the pathogenesis of obesity, and our previous data have defined this enzyme in subcutaneous and omental fat. The retro-orbital fat (ROF) depot, located behind the eye, is an important target tissue for orbital inflammatory disease. Detailed evaluation of 11beta-HSD1 activity in the NPE and ROF remains unexplored largely due to inaccessibility of human tissue. Animal models are essential for further evaluation of ocular and orbital 11beta-HSD1, the most appropriate model appears to be the New Zealand White Albino Rabbit (NZWAR).
11beta-HSD1 immunohistochemical analyses of three NZWAR, confirmed expression to the NPE layer of the cilary body. 11beta-HSD1 enzyme assays on intact ciliary body tissue revealed predominant oxo-reductase (E to F) activity. This was supported by a high F:E ratio in AH (2.67 (1.25-5.2)median (range)) versus plasma 11.25 (10-12.5). These results endorse our human studies which suggest that modulation of AH production by 11beta-HSD1 is important in the regulation of IOP.
In addition, we have defined expression of 11beta-HSD1 to ROF. Primary cultures demonstrated abundant oxo-reductase activity compared with paired omental fat. This may well have important implications in differentiation, proliferation and inflammatory infiltration of this fat pad, in conditions such as thyroid eye disease. As T3 regulates 11beta-HSD1 activity, it is possible that manipulation of this isozyme could provide a novel pharmacological form of orbital decompression.
These data suggest that the NZWAR is a suitable model for evaluating 11beta-HSD1 activity in ocular and orbital tissues.
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Our natural deodorant recipe has been tried and tested and we love it. It is so simple to make and only takes around 10-15 minutes (maybe longer for your first try). We have been making our own deodorant for many years now and wouldn't go back to other commercially available deodorants.
We use only doTERRA® essential oils when making our recipe because we have 100% confidence in their purity and potency. If using other branded essential oils, do your research to be confident there are no fillers or synthetic oils used in the essential oil.
Did you know? We sell a Deodorant Kit that contains everything you need for this recipe along with labels for the jars. To view our kit click HERE.
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For women, try the following essential oil mix:
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