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- Prehistoric
- Africa
- Age of Discovery
- Ancient Egypt
- Ancient Greece
- Ancient Middle East
- Archaeology
- Aztec, Inca & Maya
- British Empire
- British history
- British kings and queens
- History of London
- LET'S EXPLORE British history
- Castles & knights
- China
- Europe
- Explorers
- Famous leaders
- Famous women
- LET'S EXPLORE Famous people
- India
- Ireland
- Islamic world
- Japan
- Jewish history
- Latin America
- Modern history
- Mongols
- North America
- LET'S EXPLORE American history
- Oceania
- Pirates & galleons
- Romans
- Russia
- Southeast Asia
- Vikings
- World history
- LET'S EXPLORE Ancient worlds
- LET'S EXPLORE World history
- Culture
- Geography
- Space
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- Science
- Life
- Earth
- Amphibians
- Animals
- LET'S EXPLORE The animal kingdom
- Birds
- Domestic animals
- Ecosystems
- Fish
- Human body
- LET'S EXPLORE The human body
- Insects
- Land invertebrates
- LET'S EXPLORE Mini-beasts
- Life
- Mammals
- Marine invertebrates
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Crinoids, sponges and sea squirts On the ocean floor, on average about 4500 metres (15,000 feet) below the surface, the water is completely black and very cold. Here in the abyssal zone animals cannot use sight to find their food, so many are blind. Instead, they have highly developed senses of touch, or are able to detect chemical changes in the water that will lead them to a food source. The weight of water above the plain is immense, so these animals must be specially adapted to live in such a high-pressure environment. Their bodies have no air spaces inside them.
There is a surprisingly high diversity of life on the abyssal plain. At a single site scientists have estimated there to be, for example, about 500 species of marine invertebrate (worms, crustaceans, molluscs and worms).
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From professional education & health conferences, to Earth festivals & Veg Fests, LGK is inspiring individuals to embrace plant-based meals. Learn more.
LGK has its roots in advocacy, spearheading the first ever school lunch legislation calling for plant-based school lunches in California.
Lean and Green Kids... changing the world, one little bean at a time!
To educate kids and families about the life-changing, planet saving power of eating plants - especially beans, for lean and green protein.
To accomplish our mission, LGK has three focus areas: Education, Outreach & Advocacy.
Education is at the heart of what LGK is about. Our education programs teach kids that plant-based meals - with beans for "lean and green protein" - can not only help them reach their full & powerful potential, but it gives them "super powers" to save animals and the planet! LGK nutrition / culinary programs are reaching thousands of kids in grades K - 12.

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Dec 9, 2014
FTM Stocking Stuffers
In case you haven't stopped by the Farce the Music merch shop lately, there are several new shirt (stickers and coffee mugs too) designs just perfect for your upcoming holiday parties, bonfires, and house concerts. They're also great for Christmas gifts (or Hanukkah or Kwanzaa). It's nearing the last few days for standard shipping, so get a move on. Here's the link to the store: http://www.redbubble.com/people/trailerparkman/portfolio?ref=breadcrumb
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A basic flow diagram of how cloud gaming can handle multiplayer gaming.
Posted By Rashid Sayed | On 08th, Jul. 2014 Under News | Follow This Author @GamingBoltTweet
Microsoft have been hyping up the so called power of the cloud for some time now but besides the one technical demo we haven't actually seen anything that may indicate its use in a practical set up. However, in a blue print released by Microsoft, the Redmond based company has revealed how the cloud enables massive multiplayer games.
The example used in the blue print is Wordament and shows how at the end of each round, players are ranked. The system then outputs a list of optimized results which includes best words, best of the hour, best of the day and best of the week.
The blue print also explains how the cloud can be used to collect all the game scores from different players in a Game Room and how the system stores that data into Azure SQL servers. Obviously, the user needs to be authenticated via the Xbox or Facebook account for this to happen. Much of this is technical jargon but can be easily followed by opening the image above in a new tab.
You can download the blue print PDF here. What are your thoughts on this? Let us know in the comments section below.
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A Chinese Flower Pot & Planter Manufacturer
Shengerda Plastic Co., Ltd, Taizhou, China, concentrating on the manufacture of plastic planters of vast range of types, was founded in 2005. Started from a well-equipped workshop manufacturing flower pots and other planters in 1989, Shengerda has accumulated professional techniques for planter manufacturing for over 16 years. Bearing sound experience in developing, designing as well as manufacturing plastic planters, backed by materials, convenient location for transportation and later-established reliable planter manufacturing factory, Shengerda now is a professional manufacturer and supplier of nearly all types of flower pots and planters together with other plastic products such as trash can and bucket.
Through consistently manufacturing and providing best planting pots for optimum prices, Shengerda has been honored with decent reputation both in China and the globe. Equipped with exquisite manufacturing techniques and highly-qualified facilities, the company also supplies customizable planters manufactured according to clients' own flower pot samples, designs and specifications. Thus, no matter you own hotels, gardens needing flower pots as decorations or are a distributor selling flower pots, you should promisingly find your ideal flower planters in Shengerda.
Looking forward to establishing mutual beneficial partnerships with worldwide colleagues and clients, contacts concerning our flower pots, planters, terms and quotations are always welcomed. Please feel free to contact us.
Self-Watering Planters: A Sub-Brand
Leizisure is innovatively created with the company's 20-year-experience of flower pot manufacturing, which is a sub-brand of Shengerda flower pots.
Leizisure self watering planters supplies are of superb design and use, which are favored by users in China and abroad because of its applicable self-watering system and usefulness as flower pots or planter planting other plants.
Leizisure is honored with dozens of patents and registered trademark in China. With Leizisure flower pot, not only can you purify the indoor air quality, but enjoy the comfortable and decent circumstance at home or work.


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Elisany lives in Brazil with her family and aspires to be a model. However, she says Brazil modelling agencies have turned her down because of her height.
Not only does she have to deal with the good and the bad things that people say about her, she also worries about the health issues that comes with her unusual height. She and her mother worry about the pain in her joints and spine.
Doctors recently removed a tumor from her pituitary gland which has halted her growth. She hopes that this will stop future health problems.
She also recently found love with boyfriend, Francinaldo, who is 5 feet 4 inches tall.
The lovebirds do not care about their height difference.
She talks to BTV about her Francinaldo:
"What really attracted me was his personality, the way he acts with people and the way he acts with me."
However, she finds it a little silly when they hold hands.
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Truckee Lutheran Presbyterian Church offers a variety of Faith Formation Programs and Events for all ages.
Sunday School:
Preschool/Kindergarten through Confirmation classes meet every Sunday during worship services.
Confirmation classes are during Sunday School time for 6-8th graders. Confirmation usually occurs in 8th or 9th grade. We use the "Here We Stand" program offered by Augsburg Publishing.
Adult Education:
Sunday Morning Seminars at 9:00 a.m.
Each Sunday morning at 9:00 a.m. we offer a seminar on varying varying topics.
Men's Breakfast Bible Study at 8:00 a.m. held at Coffee And, 10106 Donner Pass Rd Truckee, CA 96161.


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An artificially intelligent personal assistant developed by Microsoft has accurately predicted the winner of the last 13 World Cup games. If Cortana can extend the streak for three more matches she will have succeeded in correctly forecasting the entire last four stages of the tournament.
Cortana predicted last night's shock seven-nil defeat of Brazil by Germany – in outcome, at least, as it conservatively resists being pinned down on exact scores.
Tonight the Netherlands will play Argentina in the semi-finals and Cortana is predicting that the South American team will progress to the final stage of the competition. Argentina is currently favourite to win on online betting sites.
In a blog post announcing the new prediction feature, which launched last month Microsoft said that predicting the outcome of football matches was trickier than television talent shows, on which Cortana has previously worked her prescient magic, that were voted on by the public: "The actions and performances of a handful of individuals solely determine who wins, loses, or ties.
"For the tournament, our models evaluate the strength of each team through a variety of factors such as previous win/loss/tie record in qualification matches and other international competitions and margin of victory in these contests, adjusted for location since home field advantage is a known bias.
"Further adjustments are made related to other factors which give one team advantages over another, such as home field (for Brazil) or proximity (South American teams), playing surface (hybrid grass), game-time weather conditions, and other such factors.
"In addition, data obtained from prediction markets allows us to tune the win/lose/tie probabilities due to the 'wisdom of the crowds' phenomenon captured by the people wagering on the outcomes."
Microsoft's Cortana is currently beating search giant Google with its prediction engine. Google correctly forsaw the winners of all eight games in the round of 16, then slipped up with its prediction for the Germany vs France quarter-final. Google's model uses touch-by-touch data from Opta, covering the many leagues where World Cup players play, to examine how behaviour in previous games affects performance in subsequent games.
Cortana is named after the AI character that appears in the Halo video games, and is voiced by the same actress that provided dialogue for the games. It was demonstrated for the first time in April this year and will become a key part of Windows Phone, Windows and Xbox One in coming months. Currently it is only available to Windows Phone users in the US as a beta.


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3. Car manufacturers stamp a vehicle identification number at several places on new cars to help track down stolen vehicles. 4. If you dare tell on me when the teacher gets back I won't say a word to you any more. 5. Some elderly people prefer to live on their own while the great majority choose to live with their children. 6. Here is something that needs to be reckoned with: how to get the necessary finances to establish the company. XII 1. 每当有人帮了你,无论事情大小,无论他地位高低,你都应该对他说声"谢谢" 。
XIII 1 B 2 A 3 C 4 A 5 D 6 A 7 D 8 D 9 C 10 B 11 B 12 B 13 A 14 C 15 D 16 C 17 A 18 C 19 D 20 AUnit 2III 1 moderate 2 consume 3 advisable 4 modified 5 evidence 6 restricted 7 calculate 8 remedy 9 impact 10 sufficient IV 1 bounce back 2 summed up 3 Up to 4 at risk 5 went to zero 6 goes up 7 interfere with 8 derived from 9 In general 10 take in V G KO N JACD FI VI 1 cost 2 pollution 3 potential 4 quality 5 chance 6 crime 7 interest 8 efficiency 9 strength 10 creativity VII 1 appearance 2 utterance 3 attendance 4 hindrance 5 maintenance 6 resistance 7 performance 8 existence 9. occurrence 10. acceptance VIII 1. world-famous 2 ice-cold 3 snow-white 4 waterproof 5 waist-deep 6 carefree IX 1 Mr. Howe, my favorite professor, has received a Distinguished Teacher Award. 2 Yesterday I went fishing, something I hadn't done in years. 3 Some women are normally inactive but then all of a sudden start a program of intense exercise, an action that breaks the laws of sports science. 4 Even a brief visit to Greece, a modern country with ancient civilization, gives you a deep sense of its culture. 5 The ancient Chinese, a people of inventors, discoverers, philosophers, soldiers, poets, craftsmen, gave the world many of its most useful things. X 1 His homework done, his composition written, Larry decided to go and see the film. 2 The manager sat quietly in the office, (his) eyes closed, waiting for the telephone to ring. 3 The room was a mess, empty bottles and beer cans (being) everywhere. 4 When I walked in, Grandpa was sitting at the kitchen table, the newspaper spread before him. 5 Diana stood motionless at the end of the diving board, tears streaming down her cheeks. XI
1. The defendant, a woman of only 30, kept insisting on her own innocence. 2. All tings considered, dates, beans and some leafy green vegetables are the best sources of iron. 3. No beverages are served with meals because they interfere with digestion. 4. Taking the popularity of the region into consideration, it is advisable to book hotels in advance. 5. If you have a feeling of wanting to throw up after taking this drug, stop taking it immediately and consult your doctors as soon as possible. 6. Summing up the discussion, he said both parties should consider the most effective way to solve the problem. XII 1. 作为补救缺铁的一种方法,专家推荐食用肉、鸡和鱼,它们是最好的铁质来源,也是唯一最容易被身体吸收的铁质 来源。
3. 耐力运动员,尤其是女性,经常会缺铁,如果增食肉类食物或服用铁质补剂,能够恢复到健康状态。
XIII 1 D 2 C 3 C 4 A 5 D 6 A 7 B 8 D 9 C 10 B 11 A 12 B 13 D 14 A 15 D 16 A 17 D 18 C 19 C 20 AUnit 3III 1 cultivate 2 comprehensive 3 controversial 4 suspend 5 insulted 6 preliminary 7 conventional 8 reform 9 worthwhile 10 publicity IV 1. His girlfriend's father saw him as a man who could not make a living. 2. The course was canceled over the students' protest. 3. The problem is so difficult that we cannot work it out without the help of our teacher. 4. Children tend to do/try their utmost when they know their parents are making similar efforts. 5. The new teaching program didn't work well in the school at the outset. 6. I was kind of excited when I received the letter that offered me an interview. 7. The school is scheduled to open on September 1. 8. They appeared to offer a free computer, complete with software and a printer. 9. In spite of hardships, they made real efforts that have resulted in more progress than expected. 10. Many people make things more difficult for themselves because they still operate on the principle that you should not ask for help, or you might seem weak. V FMKD CG LO IB VI 1 cold 2 competition 3 debate 4 desire 5 fear 6 heat 7 interest 8 love 9 pleasure 10 enthusiasm VII 1 historic 2 atomic 3 optimistic 4 energetic 5 economic 6 heroic VIII 1. responsibility 2. rapidity 3. mobility 4. curiosity 5. publicity 6. complexity IX 1 In Britain, as in America, there is a great demand for educational reform. 2. In Greece, as in Italy, people use a lot of olive oil in cooking.
3. As in the Hyde School, values such as courage, integrity, leadership, curiosity and concern are the first, most important lesson in some public inner-city schools in Maryland. 4. In China, as in Japan, a large number of middle school students take supplementary classes in order to get into a famous university. 5. As in the middle of the 1950s, many young people went down to the countryside in the late 1960s and early 1970s. X 1 Once you've practiced a bit, you'll find that it's quite easy. 2. Once the meal was finished, the discussions began. 3. Once you show any fear, he will attack you. 4. Once parents make a commitment to the program, they will be daily role models for their children. 5. Once customers come to rely on these systems, they almost never take their business elsewhere. XI 1. In his thinking, as in his behavior, he is very traditional. 2. Once the teachers agree to accept the new teaching program, they have to face the strain it puts on them. 3. In the long run, it is worthwhile to pursue one's study after graduating from university instead of going to work directly. 4. As the school operates on the Character First principle, moral values and academic achievements are stressed equally. 5. It is said that the meeting, which is scheduled to be held this month, will be put off till next month. 6. The school sees its job as preparing its students for life by cultivating a comprehensive set of principles that can benefit all of them. XII 1. 跟在法国一样,美国在 20 世纪 60 年代也发生过文化革命。
4.快下课时,老师让学生用最后的五分钟来展开激烈的讨论,依照 1—10 的评分标准相互评价他们当天的课堂表现。
5.为了避免引发针对他们的品格培养方案的争论,该校校长解释说,品格第一并不是要强迫学生接受某一套道德原则 或宗教观念。
6.并非所有的家长都相信海德中学的办学原则,即如果你向学生传授诸如求真、勇敢、正直领导能力、好奇心和关心 他人等美德的话,学生的学习成绩就自然会提高。
XIII 1 B 2 D 3 A 4 B 5 D 6 B 7 A 8 D 9 C 10 B 11 B 12 A 13 C 14 C 15 A 16 B 17 C 18 A 19 D 20 BUnit 4III 1. inspected 2. assembled 3. exaggerated 4. versions 5. universal 6. approved 7. recruit 8. evolved 9. dedicated 10. solemn IV 1. worked on 2. approve of 3. went ahead 4. for sale 5. come up with 6. refashioned into 7. rise to fame 8. captures my attention 9. evolved from 10. named after V C E FN O KAH LI VI 1. respect 2. influence 3. credit 4. confidence 5. support 6. acceptance 7. fame 8. insight 9. recognition 10. experience VII 1. intelligence 2. consequence 3. significance 4. ignorance
5. indifference 6. competence 7. brilliance 8. magnificence VIII 1. coexists 2. co-director 3. cooperate 4. co-pilot 5. co-author IX 1. Jimmy walked slowly to the corner of the playground, his face covered with tears. 2. The taxi sped away, its lights disappearing into the distance. 3. Their stomachs crying for food, their back burning from too much sun, both boys gathered their things and headed for home. 4. Barbara just lay there, her mouth trembling, her eyes unfocused, unable to say a word. 5. Then the two players let him fall to the track, his chest landing first, his head following, bouncing, and finally lying still. X 1 Most snakes, although with a threatening appearance, aren't really dangerous if you leave them alone. 2. Women, even though with the same abilities, have failed to approach the income of men. 3. Though with a severe lack of coal, the principle was not forced to close the school. 4. She is capable of making complete French meals even though with no cheese after salad. 5. When in doubt about the result of your test, call the test office. XI 1. Everything considered, this city is the world's most exciting city. 2. Though with no approval from his parents, he went ahead with his plan to study abroad. 3. The bridge was named after the hero who gave his life for the cause of people. 4. It is said that the painter used his mother as the model in the painting whose face represented suffering yet strength. 5. The writer instantly rose to fame in 1950 with the publication of a novel inspired by his experience with a girl on a farm. 6. One story says that "US" was short for "Uncle Sam" whose real name was Sam Wilson, who had once worked with a man who had signed a contract with the government to provide meat to the US Army. XII 1. 这副画上一个神色严肃的男子,身旁站着一位女子,身后是所农舍。
XIII 1 A 2 C 3 B 4 D 5 B 6 D 7 A 8 C 9 A 10 B 11 A 12 C 13 A 14 C 15 C 16 A 17 D 18 D 19 A 20 DUnit 5III 1. switch 2. decay 3. secured 4. loose 5. slid 6. privileges 7. interval 8. outline 9. preceding 10. shallow IV 1. reached for 2. feel for 3. trying to avoid breathing 4. so that 5. managed to accomplish 6. sense my thoughts 7. provide for 8. spared me 9. read about 10. go about V N I K G M L A F C D VI 1. pain 2. fear 3. tension 4. mind 5. stress 6. crisis 7. anger 8. anxiety 9. signs 10. hunger
VII 1. growth: the act of growing or developing; physical or natural development 2. warmth: the state or quality of being warm; warm-heartedness and kindness 3. depth: the distance from the top to the bottom of something 4. truth: the state or quality of being true; the actual facts or reality of something 5. length: the measurement of how long something is in size 6. breadth: the distance from one side of something to the other 7. width: the distance from one side of something to the other; the quality of being wide 8. death: the state of being dead VIII 1. exposure 2. failures 3. disclosure 4. pressure 5. mountaineers 6. closure 7. profiteers 8. seizure IX 1. did he realize that the task was a little too difficult for the new secretary to finish on her own 2. did Mary stop weeping 3. will all the employees know the result of their performance evaluation 4. did she become aware how hard it was for her mother to have brought up her sister and her on her own 5. did I get to know what happened in the end to the main characters X 1. Having finished their morning work, the clerks stood up behind their desk, stretching themselves. 2. The secretary worked late into the night, preparing a speech for the President. 3. Seeing no prospect of success, we quitted the attempt to climb the mountain. 4. Knowing that they were going traveling, the students began to make preparation. 5. Having been found guilty, the man was given a severe sentence by the judge. XI 1. Not until he saw his mother lying in bed, dying, did he realize how much he loved her. 2. Taking into account of his recent physical condition, I think he has done quite well in the exam. 3. Mrs. Clark lies in bed motionless, and I wondered briefly if she is still alive. 4. The building was darkened except for a single light burning in a third-storey window. 5. These soldiers have received very strict training and are well equipped to fulfill the new task. 6. He reached for the phone, picked it up, and dialed the hotel's number. XII 1. 直到 60 年代早期,人们似乎才普遍认同英国不再是以前心目中那样的大国了。
他那暗黄的皮肤松弛地裹在显得异常大的骨头上,深陷的胸部随着不均匀的呼 吸一起一伏。
XIII 1 B 2 C 3 B 4 A 5 D 6 B 7 D 8 A 9 C 10 A 11 C 12 A 13 C 14 B 15 A 16 D 17 D 18 A 19 B 20 AUnit 6III 1. sensible 6. resistant 2. detect 7. vertical 3. precaution 8. accidental 4. occurrence 9. enclosed 5. withstand 10. fastened
IV 1. come out of 2. watch for 3. resistant to 4. put out 5 .After all 6. make a difference to 7. agree on 8. attach labels to 9. if necessary 10. In addition to V E J K O B L C H G N VI 1. sense 2. message 3. argument 4. image 5. idea 6. belief 7. knowledge 8. reputation 9. standard 10. habit VII 1-f cupboard 橱柜 2-I motorcycle 摩托车 3-l silkworm 蚕 4-k teardrop 泪滴 5-g bloodstain 血迹 6-a sawdust 锯木屑 7-e cabinet-maker 细木工匠 8-j steamboat 汽船 9-b arrowhead 箭头 10-h shirtsleeves 衬衫袖子 11-d windowpane 窗玻璃 12-c manservant 男佣人 VIII 1. encourage 2. enlarge 3. encircles 4. enable 5. endanger 6. enlightened 7. ensure 8. enforce 9. enacted 10. endear IX 1. so that the baby would not catch cold 2. so that more people would vote for him 3. so that his father might forgive him for his failure in the math exam 4. so that it would go on smoothly 5. so that you can judge for yourself X 1. She cycled from Shanghai to Beijing, which is pretty difficult for a woman of 50. 2. He wore his swimming things in the office, which shocked his boss a great deal. 3. They ran out of drink, which actually didn't bother me because I wasn't drinking. 4. They will win the match, which will please my brother. 5. She borrowed a book on literature, which suggests that her literature teacher was having some influence on her. XI 1. We should try our best to forecast earthquakes so that destruction of property caused by them could be prevented as much as possible. 2. A farmer noticed large schools of fish swimming near the surface of the water, which, he said, indicated the possible occurrence of an earthquake. 3. Keep an English-English dictionary handy, and when you cannot understand a word with accuracy, you may refer to it any time. 4. If necessary, people who live in the area where an earthquake is about to occur may sleep in tents. 5. A master's degree does make a great difference to a student who wants to get a job. 6. In addition to the knowledge about earthquakes, the book tells us how to prepare for them. XII 1. 由于在地震中遇难的人大部分都是被倒塌的建筑物砸死的,所以一定要改进建筑结构,以便它们能够抵御地震的力 量。
5.明智的做法是每个家庭都制定地震应急计划,而且所有的家庭成员都应该知道在地震过后的混乱中如何离开那个地 区。
6.由于剩下的几条可用电话线路将会很忙,所有的家人都应该往往在远离地震区域的某个朋友或亲戚家中打电话报平 安。
14 C15 D16 B17 A18 C19 D20 DUnit 7III 1. modernize 2. interpret 3. distributing 4. punctually 5. conservation 6. maximum 7. exported 8. conquer 9. classification 10. recreation IV 1. by name 2. in high gear 3. turned out 4. At times 5. as to 6. stem from 7. put in 8. on the subject of 9. in the interest of 10. work on V D G N B I M E J L A VI 1. life 2. economy 3. conversation 4. politics 5. country 6. garden 7. industry 8. literature 9. interview 10. meetings VII 1. seaward: going toward the sea 2. backward: directed toward the back, the beginning, or the past; returning; behind in development 3. earthward: toward the earth 4. outward: toward the outside; away; on the outside, appearing to be true but perhaps not really true 5. southward: going toward the south 6. northward: going toward the north 7. homeward: going toward home 8. inward: moving toward the inside; on the inside; of the mind or spirit VIII 1. interchangeable 2. intermingle 3. interconnected 4. interdependent 5. interplay 6. intermarriage 7. interpersonal 8. interactive IX 1. As to what actually happened to the headquarters 2. As to where I should go to further my study 3. as to how different they are and why we want to keep them both 4. as to whether or nor I should remain at the college working as a teaching assistant 5. as to whether the old hard ware is to be replaced by new hardware X 1. There is no use trying to help those who do not help themselves 2. it is no good trying to solve the issue between the nations by means of war 3. There is no sense refusing to accept it 4. There is no point in having a load of money 5. there is no harm in spending some time thinking about what sort of career you might wish to pursue XI 1. An interesting question therefore remains as to how far Microsoft can go with Gates as its CEO. 2. There's/It's no use complaining since nothing ever changes as the result of a complaint. What's important is to take measures to prevent similar events from happiness. 3. Learn to accept the fact that some people you thought were friends turn out to be enemies. 4. As you would expect from the book's title, there are many references to what kind of man Gates is. 5. The prosperity of the company stems from hardworking and thrifty of the entire staff.
6. He said nothing at all on the subject of the play which was put on for the first time Saturday night. XII 1. 至于那天晚上他是怎么死的,事实上我无法解释,而且也许不会有任何可能的解释了。
5. 与评价父亲不同,人们评价母亲依据的是其为母之道的成功或失败。
对于母亲来说,一切都取决于孩子最终成为 什么样的人。
6. 人们会发现这个网站很有价值,因为我们投入了大量时间准备网站的信息。


text: Opposition groups in Russia say the upcoming elections will not be 'free and fair' [AFP] The arrests came after activists from the left-wing National Bolshevik party, a member of the Other Russia opposition coalition, broke through police lines and marched down a main Moscow avenue. They were quickly joined by activists and leaders from other opposition groups who headed towards the offices of the central election commission where they wanted to deliver a petition protesting over the fairness of the upcoming vote. About half a dozen other activists were also arrested at the same location.Election concerns In a statement ahead of Saturday's march, the Other Russia group acknowledged that the Moscow municipal authorities had not given permission for the planned march but said the group planned to go ahead with it anyway to protest against December 2 elections for the state Duma. They said the elections to the lower house of the Russian parliament would be neither free nor fair.Prior to the march and Kasparov's arrest, around 2,000 supporters of the Other Russia held a rally where they were joined by Boris Nemtsov, the leader of the Union of Right Forces (SPS), a liberal opposition party."Putin is a coward. We elected a coward. He's afraid of peaceful people," said Nemtsov, as hundreds of riot police stood by on a deserted street near the centre of the city. He also said that intimidation from the authorities limited the number of people present, Nemtsov was nominated on Friday by the SPS as the party's candidate for the presidency. Hours ahead of Saturday's demonstration, police raided an office housing the website of the Other Russia, a spokeswoman said.Pro-Putin rally On Red Square, around 2,000 members of the youth group Nashi rallied to show their support for Putin. Many were holding white balloons which they said were intended to symbolise the "airheads" of the opposition. "These are our rivals," said Sasha Isayev, 20, pointing to his balloon. "They are stupid and ridiculous opponents." SOURCE: Agencies


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The Philadelphia Flyers have signed RFA forward Travis Konecny to a six-year contract worth an average annual value of $5.5 million, the team announced Monday.
Eat up, bud! #FlyOrDie https://t.co/OxYPyOounk— Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) September 16, 2019
"We are happy to have Travis under contract for the next six seasons," said President of Hockey Operations & General Manager Chuck Fletcher in a release. "Travis has shown progression in each of his three seasons and is an integral part of our group of young forwards. His speed, skill and tenacity sets him apart in today's NHL."
The 22-year-old is coming off a career-best season in assists, and points, while also tying his career-best in goals. In three seasons in the NHL, Konecny has 124 points in 233 games, and ranks seventh among all players in the 2015 NHL Draft class in goals.
After signing RFA Konecny to 6 yr $5.5M Cap Hit Deal, the #Flyers now have $1.17M Cap Space with 22 (12F/8D/2G) on our Projected Roster.https://t.co/VzNfBNPEkc— PuckPedia (@PuckPedia) September 16, 2019
This signing marks the end of contract negotiations for the Flyers heading into the regular season with $1.17 million in cap space and a full roster.
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You can now book your private parties and Christmas lunches at BRUS.
We take in bookings of various shapes and sizes, from cosy ten guest gatherings up to 110 guest company parties. Bookings can be made for both midday lunches or night time parties, and we can seat you in our bright shining brewery, our spacious restaurant or in the cosy shop corner.
BRUS CHRISTMAS TABLE MENU – served family style
Smoked Nuts
Pork Rinds
Salmon Tatar, Cucumber, Sesame
Christmas Salad, Red Cabbage, Walnuts, Mizuna
Veggie Kimchi
Bread 'n' Butter
Main Course
Pork Cheek, Miso, Lingonberries, Apple Puree
Roasted Potato, Herb Butter, Horseradish
Ris A la Mande, Vanilla Ice, Cherry Sauce
Starter Cocktail or Sparkling Wine
Wine with starter and main course
Coffee/tea with dessert
Price: 650,- per person.
Please write to firstname.lastname@example.com for bookings & questions.
Up to Christmas we're also offering gift boxes, baskets and cards from the BRUS Shop. Swing by the shop to create your own gift basket, box or gift card – which can be issued with the amount you wish and can be used in the whole house; bar, restaurant & shop. And last but definitely not least we're selling this year's beery Advent/Christmas Calendar from To Øl; 24 bottled and canned surprises in all styles and ABVs to get you safe and semidrunk through all the horrors and hygge of December.
The To Øl Christmas Calendar can also be purchased online from To Øl Webshop, if you're not around BRUS during November or December.


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World Hapkido Federation International Seminar
November 2012
On November 16th - 18th 2012, the World Hapkido Federation (WHF), in collaboration with Enso Center, hosted an International Seminar in Redmond, WA, USA.
Instructors for the seminar were:
Master Roe Jai Myung (Toronto, ON, Canada)
WHF Director General
Master Tim Shin (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
WHF Technical Director
Master Vagelis Thanos (Athens, Greece)
Greek Hapkido Association (GHA) President
WHF Regional Director - Eastern Europe and the Middle East
Master Jason Mix (Redmond, WA, USA)
Enso Center for International Arts Director
WHF Regional Director - West Coast USA
Sessions taught were about blending transitions in Hapkido from basic to advanced technique and theory.
Master Myung, son of WHF founder Grand Master Kwang Sik Myung, led a session on Defense Against the Knife.
Master Shin, a personal student and assistant to Grandmaster Kwang Sik Myung for over two decades, led a session on Using Rope for Both Attack and Defense.
Master Thanos, a senior member of the WHF, led a session on Pressure Points.
Master Mix, a senior member of the WHF, led sessions on the Connections Between Basic and Advanced Techniques Including the 5 Elements.
The Enso Center seminar is the 3rd of three successful WHF international seminars held within the last seven months. The other two seminars were held in Athens, Greece in May 2012 and in St Petersburg, Russia in October of 2012.
You can view a seminar flyer by clicking on the image or link below:
Enso Center WHF International Seminar - Nov 2012
Flyer Credit: Thien Ho


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Happy Memorial Day, all. Today we remember and honor the men and women of our country who have courageously stepped out in faith and deed to protect our freedom. I feel incredibly blessed to live in a protected country because of such devoted soldiers and leaders.
As we think about people closest to us who are involved in the armed forces of the US, take a moment to consider the freedom we have received from our God. Our mighty God fights for us strongly every single day; He wipes each tear from our eyes and bottles them up; He goes to the ends of the earth and calls us from its farthest corners; He never leaves us, nor does He forsake us; and He lifts us up on wings like eagles, where we will never grow weary or faint.
Read Psalm 111 this morning; it presents to us all a challenge:
(v. 1-2) I will thank the Lord with all my heart
as I meet with his godly people,
How amazing are the deeds of the Lord!
All who delight in him should ponder them.
Today, take a moment to ponder the amazing deeds of the Lord, either in the form of prayer, silent thought, or perhaps writing in a journal. Consider what trials He has brought you through, how He has protected you, and how He has granted you freedom in His Son. Consider the sacrifice.
Verses 7 and 8 say, "All he does is just and good, and all his commandments are trustworthy. They are forever true, to be obeyed faithfully and with integrity." Next ask the Lord, what commands you are having trouble trusting Him in obeying, and then take a step forward to obey in faith and with integrity.
What deeds have you seen the Lord perform on your behalf? How do His commandments challenge your faith and integrity?
Thank you, men and women of the United States, for fighting for your country. But most of all, thank God that He gives us the perfect example of a divine God fighting for His people!


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Janet Orselli
Installation Art
Janet Orselli's artworks create a dialogue between raw materials of the earth and castaway manmade objects and artifacts. Her palette is an earthy collection of feathers, mosses, bird and wasp nests, sticks, clay, old photographs, leather, metal scraps and furniture debris. Assembling these elements to create a meaningful experience for the viewer draws on her concern for nature and how material objects symbolize our way of life.


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THEMA aims to stimulate writers' creativity by suggesting specific and often quirky themes. The Louisiana triannual publishes stories, poems, and essays alongside photography and art, always on a specific topic. The journal encourages submissions from emerging writers.
Poetry Sought
Up to three "thoughtfully constructed and carefully distilled" poems on the selected theme. No sexually explicit material.
Quick Facts
- Pays cash
- Simultaneous submissions OK
- Accepts reprints
- Welcomes beginning writers
How to submit to THEMA
To get published in THEMA:
Read the Guidelines
Always read the complete submission
guidelines before submitting your work.
Send your Submission
THEMA accepts submissions through:
More About THEMA
"THEMA, the theme-related journal, has three goals. One is to provide a stimulating forum for established and emerging literary and visual artists. The second is to serve as source material and inspiration for teachers of creative writing. The third is to provide readers with a unique and entertaining collection of stories, poems, art and photography." Responds 3 months after the theme deadline. Accepts e-mail submissions from authors residing outside the United States.Established 1988.


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The Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) is an open technology for real-time communication, which powers a wide range of applications including instant messaging, presence, multi-party chat, voice and video calls, collaboration, lightweight middleware, content syndication, and generalized routing of XML data. The xmpp.org technology pages provide more information about the various XMPP "building blocks". Several books about Jabber/XMPP technologies are available, as well.
The core technology behind XMPP was invented by Jeremie Miller in 1998, refined in the Jabber open-source community in 1999 and 2000, and formalized by the IETF in 2002 and 2003, resulting in publication of the XMPP RFCs in 2004 (see the history page for more details).
Although the core technology is stable, the XMPP community continues to define various XMPP extensions through an open standards process run by the XMPP Standards Foundation. There is also an active community of open-source and commercial developers, who produce a wide variety of XMPP-based software.
If you have any questions about the use or development of XMPP technologies, feel free to participate in one of the open xmpp.org discussion venues hosted by the XMPP Standards Foundation.
Choices of XMPP server
- Choice of XMPP server at MetaJack
- jabber2d
- ejabberd
- Strophe - a beautiful library for building XMPP applications in JavaScript
- Prosody - Lua based server with easy setup and small footprint
- Metronome - simpler to use fork of Prosody
Interesting XMPP extensions supported by jabberd2
- XEP-0030: Service Discovery
- XEP-0048: Bookmarks
- XEP-0049: Private XML Storage
- XEP-0072: SOAP Over XMPP (not currently implemented by jabberd2)
- XEP-0079: Advanced Message Processing
- XEP-0083: Nested Roster Groups
- XEP-0114: Jabber Component Protocol
- XEP-0138: Stream Compression
- XEP-0145: Annotations
Extensions we'd like to develop
- Workflow: define processes and sequences, both human and computer (adding current work tree to contexts)
- Schedule: this may already be done: adding a "booking" aspect to contexts
- P2P: A peer-to-peer storage layer
- Objects: this is basically RA: types & instances with search, create, view, edit contexts
- Nodes: nodal model's class/instance structure incorporating workflow, axes, install/remove
XMPP & JavaScript
Strophe is a beautiful library for building XMPP applications in JavaScript (also available as a C library). It has a lot of nice features to help you build stanzas and respond to various event stanzas. It is built on top of the DOM, and unfortunately, the DOM is not always fun to work with. Luckily, we have an excellent DOM slicer and dicer that we can use alongside Strophe, the jQuery library.
- MetaJack - complete article
- drop.io's new real-time web-app - powered by Strophe
- Learn to Make XMPP Powered Web Apps at JSConf 2009
Setting up a server on OD
- apt-get install jabberd2
- Ensure that the config XML files in /etc/jabberd2 all have a correct user in their MySQL sections
- unpack /usr/share/doc/jabberd2/db-setup.mysql.gz and pipe it into MySQL
See also
- Splitting & merging
- Wikipedia:Message-oriented middleware
- Google Wave - our high level document about integrating this technology into our direction
- XMPP extensions
- jabberd2 - the most complete implementation of the XMPP protocol and extensions written in C
- Internet Protocol Suite
- Chesspark Design Details - chesspark.com extends XMPP
- XMPP: Complexity vs Sophistication - metajack article
- XMPP is better with BOSH - metajack article


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A Lyndora woman landed behind bars after Butler police say they found more than 200 stamp bags of suspected heroin, prescription pills and other contraband in her purse while investigating an alleged drugged driving crash Monday afternoon.
There also was $1,561 in Deianera E. McEathron's purse. Police said she acknowledged using and selling heroin.
She was placed in the Butler County Prison in lieu of $50,000 bond following arraignment.
Patrolman Andrew Niederlander said police were called about 3 p.m. Monday for a three-vehicle wreck at Hansen Avenue and Pillow Street.
This is an excerpt from a larger article that appears in Thursday's Butler Eagle. Subscribe online or in print to read the full article.


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Kaitlin didn't have school today, so I decided to take a 3-day weekend and dedicate it to scrapping!
My sister and one of her friend also came over for Saturday and part of Sunday to scrap along with me.
I completed 12 layouts total - with seven of those being double page spreads!
It was FUN!!
I'll be sharing some soon...as soon as I have a chance to get them pictured which will probably be later this week.
Stay tuned!


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As the academic year begins and fresh frosh settle into their dorm lofts and seminar desks, parents, relatives, and friends might be worrying: What are our freshmen reading? Perhaps your freshman goes to a college that urges every matriculating student to read Toni Morrison or Colum McCann or Judd Winick, but what about everyone else? They can't just be reading the Chive and sexts all day. We asked Slate staffers what books they would give a college freshman on his or her first day of classes—what books they think might help make sense of the new world of university (and beyond) for those away from home for the first time. Read our list, pick a book, and send it to the freshman in your life.
How to Be a Person: The Stranger's Guide to College, Sex, Intoxicants, Tacos, and Life Itself by Lindy West, Dan Savage, Christopher Frizzelle, Bethany Jean Clement, and the staff of the Stranger
Recommended by Laura Helmuth, science and health editor
Don't pay any attention to what my colleagues say. This is the book to give any college freshman. It's full of funny, practical, opinionated, smart advice about everything college students are too embarrassed to ask about or don't even know that they should ask about. How to get along with a roommate. How to get a date. How to break up. How to deal with a hangover. How to throw a party. How to come out of the closet. How to manage your finances. Plus lots of juicy sex advice from Dan Savage. Reading this book sure beats learning all about life through trial and error and lots of mortification like the rest of us did.
Common Ground by J. Anthony Lukas
Recommended by David Plotz, editor
Common Ground—epic, thrilling, boisterous—tells the story of three families living through the Boston school integration crisis of the 1970s. Lukas portrays poor Irish-Americans, poor African-Americans, and prosperous yuppies with tremendous subtlety and sympathy. The book tells you almost everything you need to know about race in America, class conflict, white flight, gentrification, newspapers, the Catholic Church, and grassroots organizing. Why should college kids read it? It is one of the best books ever written about the variety of the American experience. If college is about learning to understand the Other, there is no better introduction than Common Ground.
Python in a Day by Richard Wagstaff
Recommended by Chris Kirk, interactives editor
Take a break from soul-searching and learn to code. It won't make you lifelong friends (unless you get really good at artificial intelligence), but a small investment will save you weeks of crunching numbers at a tedious summer internship, make you a wicked problem-solver, and put a highly marketable skill in your bag in case that anthropology major doesn't work out.
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
Recommended by Lowen Liu, copy chief
I would be better off now had I become first acquainted earlier than I did with the singular complaint of one Alex Portnoy. The comic novel has mellowed after all these years into a lightly stirring, tightly constructed, very funny coming-of-age story (with special appearances by masturbation on a bus, masturbation with a piece of liver, and a botched hand job that ends with stray ejaculate in the eye), instead of the ribald circus-maker it was for a generation. The sex is frank even by today's standards but no longer shocking, and thus can be appreciated as faithfully messy, solipsistic, ecstatic, essential—a good lesson at teenage's end. At 15, you skim the book for scandal; at 35, you strain to recall what it was like to have such a stake. But at 18 or 19, boy, you feel its scream in your bones. It is exactly the rude, self-conscious, hysterical welcome to proto-adulthood everyone needs.
Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, Second Edition
Recommended by Troy Patterson, writer-at-large
I know, I know, your software's spell-check function fulfills all your orthographical needs, and online dictionaries solve your lexicological problems. But hear me out: You are probably (no matter how good your AP score or how not-bad your term paper on The Old Man and the Sea) just barely fluent in English, and developing an intimate relationship with an unabridged dictionary will help get you over the goal line more quickly. Being an old fogey I am not sure whether old fogies still yammer every day about how hard copies of reference texts are superior to their digital counterpart. Maybe they've thrown in the towel? Not I. Opening Webster's Unabridged you enter a grand hall. The technology of ink and paper invites you to linger profitably on the definition of the word you were looking for. Even better, it forces you to submit yourself to the serendipity of stumbling upon a mot that is just perfect for some other part of your academic life or a diagram (such as the "square of opposition") that accidentally changes the way you think about thinking about the world. Likewise, random encounters with the volume's many handsome illustrations will clue you into the correct names for all the architectural and design features of your campus, from the squinches on the chapel to the bun feet on the chairs of the disciplinary committee. Random House Webster's Unabridged offers a self-directed course in Whatchamacallitology. Also, it works OK as an ironing board.
Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
Recommended by Rachael Larimore, managing editor
Gould was best known as an evolutionary biologist, but he was a gifted writer and speaker who could hold forth knowledgeably on any number of topics, as evidenced by his many collections of essays. He could describe complicated scientific theories in ways that nonscience majors could grasp, and he never condescended. As a college freshman, you will meet people from every background and discipline. Be ready to learn from them. And if you have anything to teach them, do so with grace and good humor.
The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles
Recommended by Katy Waldman, assistant editor
Not only because knowing the story is academically useful, but because reading (and loving) The Odyssey is a rite of passage sort of akin to going off to college, or even to setting sail across the Mediterranean. The Fagles translation delivers an immortal set of myths wrapped in exquisite, moving language: all bright-eyed goddesses, high halls, and bodies tumbling in the dust. In short, this 3,000-year-old poem will teach you what literature can do. (And if the scene with Argos the dog—which incidentally explains everything you will ever need to know about friendship—doesn't reduce you to a quivery blob of grief, you are not human.)
Emily Post's Etiquette by Peggy Post, Anna Post, Lizzie Post, and Daniel Post Senning
Recommended by Emily Yoffe, Dear Prudence columnist
This is the comprehensive and updated great-grandmother of advice books. All college students are going to find themselves in strange and baffling new circumstances, and Etiquette will help prepare you. If you're invited to a dinner at the college president's home, you'll know which forks to use and when. The book will give you confidence about workplace manners when you have internships and summer jobs, tell you how to express condolences, and inform you whom to tip and how much. These aren't just a bunch of silly little rules. Behaving graciously is valuable in its own right, and doing so could be the extra something that makes you stand out from the crowd.
Runaway by Alice Munro
Recommended by Sharan Shetty, intern
College freshmen do not seek stories about middle-aged Canadian women. College freshmen do not share problems with middle-aged Canadian women. College freshmen are not provincial girls who elope to Toronto, wallow in stale marriages to flawed men, and succumb to deep reservations about motherhood. But college freshmen need to read Alice Munro, starting with her 2004 collection, Runaway. Munro's work is full of empathy and innovation, despite it boiling down to telling one story (see above) over and over and over again. Most importantly, she writes for and about people, only people, that's it. No ruminations on pop culture or politics, no digressions into obscure narrative ruts, no verbose descriptive tics. Only the characters, their thoughts, and the feeling you get every time you hit the last page of a story—like you've just glimpsed the mind of a stranger and in doing so have gained a friend.
The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
Recommended by Emma Roller, editorial assistant
My Intro to Political Science professor freshman year was a very natty dresser, and he scared the crap out of me. Unlike the feel-good, no-wrong-answer vibe the other professors at my liberal arts school gave off, this one adhered to a strict Socratic method: If you were wrong, he would shoot. You. Down. Then again, if your answer was too smart, he'd tell you to "go out and play on I-80." Needless to say, I spent the entire hour motionless, praying he wouldn't call on me to explain the intent of the authors in The Federalist Papers. But The Federalist Papers, for their part, turned this would-be jaded English major into an equally jaded poli sci major. If you don't have time for the whole thing, just read Federalist No. 10—it'll take you half an hour, tops—in which James Madison writes that the role of government is to find the fulcrum between upholding personal liberties and preventing humans' factious nature from turning us violently against one another: "Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency." Oh, go out and play on I-80.
Dubliners by James Joyce
Recommended by Seth Stevenson, contributor
The fall of my freshman year of college, a dormmate's father came for a visit and decided to chat a little with his son's friends. He asked me what my favorite piece of writing was. I answered James Joyce's "The Dead," from the 1914 short story collection Dubliners. The man's smile dropped, and he turned gravely serious. "You're too young to read 'The Dead,' " he warned me, brow knitted in genuine concern. I take his point. It is a heaping serving of despair—perhaps more than a college frosh needs. Yet I still feel that every incipient adult could benefit from an evening spent at the Morkan sisters' annual dinner and dance. Joyce eerily evokes the emotional distance that can haunt relationships, the melancholy of recalling a long-ago love, the deep sadness that floats in on snowflakes. (Oh, by the way, it's the best-written prose in the history of the English language.)
White: Essays on Race and Culture by Richard Dyer
Recommended by Aisha Harris, Brow Beat assistant
I didn't read Richard Dyer's White until graduate school, but I definitely would have benefited from reading it sooner. It's an insightful read that poses the oft-ignored subject of "what it means to be white." In it, the English scholar traces the concept of whiteness through an utterly amazing scope of entry points including Christianity, photography, muscle-men in movies, and death. And with such an array of subject matter, pretty much any college freshman—especially one majoring in the humanities—is certain to gain an important understanding of Western culture that will be useful to them in the long run.
Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste by Carl Wilson
Recommended by J. Bryan Lowder, editorial assistant
If a quality education in the liberal arts should begin with a novice trekking through the endless epithets of The Iliad, it should end with a graduate capable of the kind of erudite, useful, and engaging critical thinking on display in Slate music critic Carl Wilson's delightful study of Celine Dion, Let's Talk About Love. So why not present the goal at the outset? If more of our college students emerged from the experience with the mix of curiosity, critical empathy, and intellectual capaciousness on display in this little book, our society may well hope, as Dion so bewitchingly puts it, to "go on."
The Book of Ecclesiastes
Recommended by Ryan Vogt, copy editor
The foundation of the Western canon is probably the last book most college freshmen are reaching for, given its association with religion, but there's at least one of the King James Bible's 66 sections that young scholars should set aside some time for between all the hookups. Rich with metaphor—including, of course, Byrds lyrics—and written by an impossibly wise author—some say God—the book drives home a lesson you might not find in class: that we will all be gone someday and completely forgotten. A deeply humbling, perversely thrilling funeral for the entire world, Ecclesiastes was carpe diem way before Robin Williams—and, heck, even before Horace. Let us not take our lives for granted, the author tells us, for we're here by the whims of time and chance, and we all in the end go to our "long home." Till then, freshmen, "let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth."
Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
Recommended by Katherine Goldstein, innovations editor
Journalist Ehrenreich gives a detailed and moving first-person account of her experience of working a number of minimum-wage jobs and eloquently describes the challenges of making ends meet as a cleaning woman, a Wal-Mart sales clerk, and a waitress among other professions. At 18, I was certainly aware that economic inequality existed and that I'd been brought up with many privileges and advantages, but this book gave me concrete and meaningful insight into how economically unfair America is. It inspired a tremendous sense of empathy in me, which is a good sentiment to take with you to college.
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
Recommended by L.V. Anderson, assistant editor
According to painstakingly collected anecdotal evidence, everyone will either become a vegetarian, take a break from being a vegetarian, date a vegetarian, and/or attempt to come up with a convoluted philosophical argument against vegetarianism while in college. You may as well get a head start to figure out which camp(s) you'll fall into. And Foer's book is surprisingly readable and nonannoying—his humane, accessible treatment of the topic will serve as a gentle primer on the moral and cultural stakes of eating meat (or not).
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Recommended by Julia Turner, deputy editor
To be honest, I don't think reading any book would be as useful as following this piece of advice: Go have a job for two years and then go to college. There are many students who would appreciate a college education much more if they didn't take studenthood for granted as the default setting of youth and the university campus its default environment. In lieu of that, students should maybe read Mrs. Dalloway? Virginia Woolf's book about a society hostess preparing for a party is really a book about looking beyond the seeming parameters of one's own life. There might be a lesson there for young students. Plus it suggests that your college-age romantic choices will have lifelong repercussions—which will add drama to that orientation ice cream social.
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Recommended by Rebecca Onion, Vault editor
The first book in Robinson's Mars Trilogy, Red Mars is full of ambitious philosophical contemplations. (Is utopia possible? What is the relationship between science and culture? How does history shape the future? How much should humans manipulate nature?) These questions make for a good complement to the kinds of revelations first-year humanities courses should provoke. But, more importantly, it's just a great story. In my first few panicked years of college, the idea of "reading for pleasure" was laughable. In graduate school I learned that the charge I got from picking up an engrossing novel completely unrelated to my research would give me energy to carry on with the difficult stuff. So I'd encourage a college freshman to keep reading for fun—and Red Mars is escapism of the most worthy kind.
"What Is Education For?" by David Orr, later incorporated into Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect
Recommended by Jeff Friedrich, Slate Plus editor
An essay cum sermon I read in a freshman environmental studies course. It's a short, inspiring, and beautiful argument for humility and reflection about the goals of education.
A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
Recommended by Matthew Yglesias, Moneybox columnist
In my real life I mostly read nonfiction, but college students are going to get plenty of that in class. And even though everyone I know has read more fiction than I have, lots of people haven't read Mikhail Lermontov's short novel A Hero of Our Time, so I want to foist it on as many of America's young people as possible. After all, who can't relate to the experience of being a Russian military officer assigned to occupation duty in the early 19th-century Caucasus region?* The themes, of course, are universal: boredom, alienation, and the youthful pingponging between idealism and cynicism. As a fat and happy college freshperson, it has both nothing and everything to do with your life. A beautifully written reminder that people have (with some justice!) been dumping on the Young People These Days for quite a long time now.
The Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan
Recommended by Phil Plait, Bad Astronomy blogger
If there were one book I wish everyone would read, it's Carl Sagan's masterpiece The Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark. It's not a slap on the knuckles of anti-science promulgators—well, it is, but it's much more. It's a love poem for reality, a beautifully written and thoughtful paean to science as a way of making sure we don't fool ourselves. He describes why people tend to believe things despite a lack of evidence and what kind of damage this does to society. But while Sagan laments all this, Demon-Haunted World also is a wonderfully uplifting story on the beauty and wonder of science and our place in the universe. If more people were familiar with this book and its message, I suspect a lot of the problems in the world would be at least somewhat easier to manage.
Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery
Recommended by Torie Bosch, Future Tense editor
An incoming freshman faces at least four years of heavy reading, so I recommend giving her (and yes, it will probably be her) the comforting gift of the third book in L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables series. Anne of the Island follows our Titian heroine's adventures in college, where she wrestles with the universal student struggles of homesickness, relationships, financial challenges, and schoolwork. It is funny and poignant, and there's even the occasional reference to drunkenness. Talk of beaux and chloroforming cats is outdated, sure, but Anne's eternal optimism remains magically uncloying. Toward the end of the book, when asked to reflect on her college career, Anne shares a lesson that any student should graduate with: "I really have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory."
Stoner by John Williams and Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Recommended by Justin Peters, Crime blogger
Lucky Jim is wildly funny. Stoner is contemplative and sad. Both, I think, might help college freshmen better understand and relate to the men and women who will be teaching their classes—and help them understand that the professors, too, are often just making it up as they go along.
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
Recommended by Miriam Krule, copy editor
So you're about to start college. Congratulations! The world is your oyster. Go explore. Take that class on the history of pro wrestling and how it explains the economy or science for Harry Potter enthusiasts. It'll all work out when you graduate, right? Probably, but you should still read Michael Chabon's first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, a coming-of-age story about the wayward Art Bechstein looking for a summer adventure after college graduation, the last summer of his youth. No way, you'll think to yourself. This isn't me. I'll have my life figured out. Sure you will. But just in case, this way, come senior spring, when you're alternating between graduation euphoria and unemployment panic, you'll already have a copy.
Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth
Recommended by Mark Joseph Stern, contributor
My first year of college, I came very close to losing faith in fiction altogether. The books I was assigned in my lower-level English classes followed the same mold: overly precious, shallowly eloquent explorations of the human spirit, usually delivered in some misty-eyed first-person lilt. I hated it. Then I came across Philip Roth's Sabbath's Theater. Here was a mean, angry, vile book, stuffed with bizarre sex and obscene grotesqueries, overflowing with morbid vitriol, and utterly brilliant from start to finish. Roth succeeds where all those self-conscious mopes fail, taking a book about death and destruction and turning it into a celebration of life and creation, all without compromising its bitter candor. In the world of Sabbath's Theater, fucking isn't just fun—it's a noble battle against death. More than one college freshman, I suspect, could relate.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Recommended by Willa Paskin, television critic
We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a short novel—150 pages—that will unsettle you for a long, long time. Merricat Blackwood is the unforgettable, oddball 18-year-old and unreliable narrator in extremis who matter of factly explains in the novel's first paragraph that her entire family is dead. The book slowly reveals just what happened to the family and the largely agoraphobic lifestyle Merricat and her surviving relatives have been enjoying ever since. There are themes in this book—the awfulness beneath sympathetic surfaces, the horrors lurking in small towns—that you'll recognize from Jackson's famous short story "The Lottery," but Castle is stranger still. Merricat is the creepy, complicated, spacey, resourceful relative of Holden Caulfield: a collegiate-level head case, not a junior high-school one. She's exactly as old as—though hopefully a lot more maladjusted than—most freshmen, and her story is a timely reminder of both the terrible things people can do in groups and the terrible things people can do all by themselves.
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Recommended by Dahlia Lithwick, contributor
I know it's cliché as hell. I also know you're supposed to wait till some sloe-eyes lover gives it to you. But it's the book that changed my whole circuitry freshman year.
Correction, Sept. 6, 2013: The recommendation for A Hero of Our Time originally misspelled Caucasus.(Return.)


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The 2014 Open was my first experience of what I call, "Talking with the Spirit People." It was 14.2 and as the rounds went on and the other people that were in my heat starting falling off, I became the only competitor making into the next round. I remember the sensation of tunnel vision and the whole world completely drowning out, but it wasn't till later when I saw the video footage that I realized how much I had actually drowned out.
The video footage had the whole gym in my face yelling as loud as they could for me to keep going, and I didn't hear anything.
That feeling of pure, raw existence is what many throughout the years have been trying to reach. It is a partial step to the enlightenment of gurus, and yogis. Come to find out you get your heart rate high enough, and keep pushing yourself past previous barriers and bang, you start to "talk with the spirit people."
The more I study Meditation, HRV breathing techniques, and Chakras the more I realize I learned some of this intuitively from Crossfit.
Research is coming out every day on the importance of meditation, breathing, relaxation, yoga, and all the other hippy crap you have probably thought is for lulu lemon-wearing soccer moms who can't deadlift their groceries, let alone a decent weight on a barbell.
But let's get real. You might not be living up to your full athletic potential because you're not training your brain.
Here are a few examples.
1.HRV Training
What is HRV Training? There are great video's and articles to talk about Heart Rate Variability training but to put it into simple English, with simple rhythmic breathing techniques you can calm down the part of your nervous system once thought uncontrollable. This can take you out of the fight-or-flight response, and allow you to get more from your nervous system. What does this mean for Crossfit? You can get into those really intense workouts and if you are using HRV training you can get more performance out of the high intensity moments that used to drop you. There is an incredible example of how far the human body can adapt in Wim Hof. While scientist were using heart monitor machines to test the time between beats while people meditated in a lab, this guy was throwing himself into extreme cold. For an awesome piece on Wim's story, check out this link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaMjhwFE1Zw
To dig deeper on Heart Rate Variability here are some great articles.
2. Meditation
Now how is Meditation different than simple breathing? First it's a powerful way to use visualization and use auto suggestions that you can create by repeating a mantra. A mantra is a sacred utterance or group of words believed by some to have psychological and spiritual power in Sanskrit. But for our use, let's just say it is repeating a message, or an emotional cue that can improve your performance. Studies have shown that people who use visualization get the muscles firing similar to the exercise that they are visualizing. This means you are priming your body for work. http://fitness.mercola.com/sites/fitness/archive/2013/02/08/simple-activity-increases-muscle-strength.aspx
Now this might be the most underutilized tools at the disposal of Crossfitters. It not only is a great way to get deeper sleep, the example in the link below is a tool that can give you a huge mental advantage and emotional boost to hit hard WODs. It's easy to see professional athletes using emotional signals to get more out of their performance, why should we act any different, especially since it's such an easy thing to access on YouTube.
4.Eft tapping
Now if you are still with me let's go to a couple activities that may be outside the comfort levels of most people when it comes to meditative practices. EFT stands for Emotional Freedom Technique and involves tapping a few acupuncture points of the head, face, and body that allow you to calm down the fight or flight response, or any other negative emotion that might come up. For example, if I walk into a workout with a bunch of wall balls in them I automatically get a pit in my stomach. What is that? Just the thought of doing certain movements can trigger an emotional response that doesn't help me in the workout. Using EFT, I can try to rewrite that emotional response before I sabotage my success in the workout.


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the HCG diet has taken off in popularity in the last few years for a number of reasons, a top reason being that it actually works and fits in with most dieters busy lifestyles. It's no secret that the majority of the population today has many more responsibilities to tend to, from careers to families, and this has made it easier to reach for foods and meals that maybe aren't the best choice for our health.
With that limited time comes less time to devote to ourselves, and heading to the gym each day isn't always an option for everyone. Everyone knows that burning more calories that you consume is a way to maintain weight, but it can be difficult when you're on the go, especially if you spend most of your day in a car or an office.
Injections are probably the most effective way for the human body to absorb HCG, however, there are so many alternatives available that is can be very difficult to sort through what is good information and what is not. The hormone comes in multiple forms, and it is important to ensure that you are buying the proper product for your needs. When starting on the HCG injection protocol, it's imperative to ensure that you are purchasing a dry product, the supplies needed to properly reconstitute the liquid hormone, and that you are getting an authentic real HCG and not a homeopathic substitute.


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The solution, as all thoughtful people recognize, must lie in properly melding the themes of inborn predisposition and shaping through lifes experiences. This fruitful joining cannot take the false form of percentages adding to 100as in intelligence is 80 percent nature and 20 percent nurture, or homosexuality is 50 percent inborn and 50 percent learned, and a hundred other harmful statements in this foolish format. When two ends of such a spectrum are commingled, the result is not a separable amalgam (like shuffling two decks of cards with different backs), but an entirely new and higher entity that cannot be decomposed (just as adults cannot be separated into maternal and paternal contributions to their totality).