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White chocolate & strawberry marquise
Nutrition and extra info
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal400
- fat28g
- saturates16g
- carbs36g
- sugars34g
- fibre1g
- protein4g
- salt0.14g
- 6-8 sponge fingers
- 4 tbsp freshly squeezed orange juice
- 300g white chocolate, broken up
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- 25g unsalted butter
- 200ml double cream
- 3 tbsp icing sugar
- 500g strawberry
Once available in Britain for just a brief period during the summer, strawberries are now a year…
Line a 1.2 litre loaf tin with a double layer of cling film allowing it to overhang the edges. Arrange rows of sponge fingers, widthwise, across the base. Sprinkle evenly with 3 tbsp orange juice.
Put chocolate in a heatproof bowl with the butter. Microwave on Medium for 1½-2 mins, gently stirring halfway through. Whisk cream with 1 tbsp icing sugar until it just holds its shape. Fold in the melted chocolate until evenly mixed.
Select 8-10 even sized strawberries. Spoon half the chocolate mix into tin, then put selected strawberries down the centre of the tin, pressing down gently. Spoon over remaining chocolate cream and smooth the top. Fold overhanging cling film over marquise. Chill for at least 24 hrs, preferably 2 days in the fridge until set.
Weigh out 250g of the remaining strawberries, roughly chop them and put in the food processor with 2 tbsp icing sugar and 1 tbsp orange juice. Blitz until smooth, then press through a fine sieve to remove the seeds. Chill until needed.
To serve, unmould marquise and cut into thick slices. Serve with strawberry sauce and a few reserved strawberries.


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On last night's WWE Raw, something happened that's fairly unusual in the world of wrestling: one guy hit another guy.
After a WrestleMania date with The Rock, John Cena has been thrown into a feud with the newly signed Brock Lesnar. They opened the show last night with a staredown that quickly escalated into a fight, but this fight was not like other fights. Watch Lesnar's first punch after spearing Cena: a right hand directly in his grill. When the two were pulled apart, Cena's mouth was bloody. By all indications, this was an accident.
Wrestling punches are usually loud and theatrical, the wrestler stomping the mat to create a concussion as he curls and pulls his fist at the last millisecond before contact. But this was more of an MMA punch, which makes sense: Lesnar re-debuted in WWE just last week after a four-year career in UFC. Watching the video, Lesnar realizes he made solid contact. Successive punches are even more phony than normal. He avoids the face altogether.
Missed spots do happen—one knock on Lesnar during his first WWE go-round was that they happened a little too often. But last night's mishap put the WWE in a strange spot. In recent years, as a move away from the Attitude Era legacy and toward more family-friendly programming (Linda McMahon's Senate bid being a prime mover), blood has become a rarity. The culture of blading is cyclical: it was a crucial part of regional federations, then made a huge comeback in the late '90s as the WWE co-opted the success of ECW and Japanese wrestling. But these days, it's mostly saved for pay-per-views.
It's almost laughable, that arbitrary taboo. Show as many
piledrivers powerbombs as you want, each of which would logically end in paralysis. Smash metal folding chairs across a guy's head—no problem. But a little blood, the only visible sign that these choreographed assaults are actually doing damage, and all of a sudden that TV-PG rating is in jeopardy.
So under normal circumstances, an accidental bloodletting would mean the production truck avoiding replays. But here was the WWE, their biggest star flashing a red smile, with two hours left to go in the show and countless replays to be shown. This is their biggest storyline, one that's going to last at least a month, and there was no way to avoid revisiting a backstage-clearing brawl between Cena and Lesnar. They dutifully showed replays throughout the show (noticeably clashing in tone with the preteen-appealing antics of Raw guest stars The Three Stooges), and the whole thing turned into a happy accident for the company. A real payoff for a real punch means real drama going forward, and the WWE unwittingly had a true "holy shit" moment—semi-unscripted.

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LONDON — Can Britain avoid bubble trouble in its economy?
Concerns are mounting that the country's housing market is overinflated, with London house prices rising almost 19 percent in 12 months. Experts fear it is fueled by debt and the market might "pop" and come crashing down, as it did in the U.S. during the financial crisis, dragging the country into recession and leaving millions of homeowners with properties that are worth less than their mortgages.
In an attempt to avoid such a scenario, the Bank of England on Thursday announced measures to tighten credit and cool off the sector. The move is of interest globally, as it will show how much a major central bank can keep a specific sector from overheating in an economy that is otherwise still recovering.
Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said that while he did not see a bubble in the property market now, the recent surge in prices warranted preventive action.
"This is the limit of our tolerance," Carney said after a meeting of a Bank of England committee created to prevent a repeat of the recent financial crisis.
The Bank of England said mortgage lenders must make tougher affordability tests on potential homebuyers. It also said lenders should limit the size of their mortgage loans when compared with borrowers' incomes. The British government separately said it would impose the same limits to its Help to Buy program, a scheme that helps prospective buyers.
Central bankers around the world often face a similar problem — how to cool off a specific sector without disrupting the wider recovery. Experts say that the low interest rates in Europe, the U.S. and other major economies have encouraged investors to seek out returns in new sectors. Property is considered a good bet. Bond markets in developing countries have also seen a surge in recent months, as have stock markets.
But raising interest rates can be a blunt instrument to control these trends, as it can hurt other sectors of the economy that have not yet fully recovered from recession. Central banks in the U.S., Europe and Japan are aware of that danger, promising rates won't be increased any time soon.
The question is how to cool off investor interest in these sectors without causing a market rout.
"You want to apply the brakes," said Bob Pannell, chief economist at the Council of Mortgage Lenders. "But you don't want to fly over the handlebars."
In Britain, the property market has been driven not just by low interest rates, but also interest from wealthy investors and pent up demand in a country with a chronic housing shortage. House prices rose 18.7 percent in the capital and about 10 percent in the rest of the country in the year ending in April, according to official statistics. That far outstripped the 0.7 percent increase in wages including bonuses during the same period.
That means Britons have to borrow more to buy a home. Homeowners in Britain often get new mortgage loans every two or three years to take advantage of fluctuating markets — rather than a fixed longer-term system common in the United States. Carney recently described over-extended borrowers as a threat to the financial system, largely because households make up the bulk of domestic borrowing.
Figures from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a policy watchdog for the 34 most developed countries, suggest property prices in Britain are about 30 percent too high when compared to wages. In the United States, by contrast, most homes are valued correctly while Japan remains the cheapest market among OECD members after years of deflation.
While Carney said the current British market was not a bubble, other economists disagree.
"This may not be the mother of all house price bubbles, but it may be the sister," said David Blanchflower, a former member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee who now teaches at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.
The froth can be seen in the explosion of real estate agents. In a country where neighborhood retail shops often struggle to survive, realtor shops are a fixture, particularly in desirable neighborhoods.
PricedOut, a group that campaigns for affordable house prices, says people with steady but modest jobs — nurses, teachers and engineers — have little hope of buying a home, especially in the south. In Oxford, Britain's least affordable city, the average house price — at about 340,000 pounds ($578,000) — costs 11 times gross average earnings, according to the Lloyds Bank Affordable Cities Review.
Take the experience of Daniel Philpott, 35, of London, who has been sleeping on the sofas of friends and family for two years in hopes of saving enough money for a down payment. He makes 40,000 pounds a year designing air conditioning units for commercial buildings. If he had to pay rent, there would be no hope of saving enough to buy what he wants: stability for the future.
"These high prices are just completely untenable," he said.


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Bugs in Space
All astronauts need to be in good health in order to endure physical and psychological challenges during a space flight. However, like all other humans, astronauts can be vulnerable to infectious diseases. Microbes and other "bugs" can cause infectious disease and may seriously affect a person's health.
There are many kinds of micro-organisms that can cause health problems:
1. Viruses – such as HIV (human immune deficiency virus) that can cause AIDS, and the rhinovirus responsible for the common cold.
2. Bacteria – such as Staphylococcus aureus which is often found in human skin and noses, possibly causing infections, and Clostridium difficile which can cause severe inflammation of the colon.
3. Fungi – such as Trichophyton rubrum, which inhabits the soil, humans or animals, and is one of the leading causes of hair, skin and nail infections, (dermatophytosis) in humans.
Out of this world
In space, where astronauts are working in a confined environment and with limited supplies of water on experiments requiring strict containment, the control of any contamination becomes even more critical. Inside the International Space Station (ISS), orbiting about 400 km above Earth, there is close monitoring of the bugs that are found as well as studies of their physiology to see if the space environment has affected the organisms in any way.
On the ISS – including the European Columbus laboratory – samples are taken regularly to check the microbes on board. In order to minimise contamination, Columbus has been assembled in special clean rooms and it will be checked for micro-organisms before launch. The module will have several layers of containment, depending on the specimens the astronauts will be working on.
There are many space-related experiments taking place in the field of microbiology to investigate the effects of weightlessness and radiation on micro-organisms.
This has resulted in some interesting studies. One such study showed how a colony of Salmonella typhimurium, the bug that causes food poisoning, flew onboard the space shuttle Atlantis and became three times more likely to cause disease compared with similar control bacteria on the ground.
Bugs can also be very useful. For example, we use micro-organisms to bake bread, for yoghurt fermentation, to create bubbles in wine and beer and to decompose organic matter during recycling. In space, particularly during long-duration travel, we will also need to find a way to use these microbes to help us - both with recycling and production of food. Within ESA, investigations are taking place in order to learn more about how to use microbes to recycle air, water and waste, and how to produce food in space during future long-duration space missions. Columbus may well provide an environment where some of the research to achieving this goal can safely take place.
Bacteria have been present on our planet longer than any form of life. Over the last 3 billion years they have managed to occupy many extreme environments, including hot thermal vents on the ocean floor. The water that comes out of the hydrothermal vent is rich in dissolved minerals and supports a large population of chemosynthetic bacteria that use unusual chemistry to survive. These bacteria attract other organisms. Tube worms live around the hydrothermal vents and since they have no mouth or digestive tract, the bacteria live inside them.
Most bacteria grow in places where the pH ranges from 6-8 (weak acid to weak alkali). The human stomach has a pH of 1.5-2.0 (strong acid) which kills most bacteria. However, Thiobacillus thiooxidans oxidises sulphur to sulphuric acid and can grow at a pH of 0 (highly acid). Astrobiologists are interested in studying extremophiles - organisms that are capable of surviving in extremely harsh environments similar to those known to exist on other planets. For example, Mars may have regions in its deep subsurface permafrost that could harbor communities of endoliths, organisms that live inside rock.
Class experiment: In search of bugs in the lab
Like all living things, micro-organisms need nutrition to generate energy and create cell materials. This nutrition is obtained from its environment. A culture medium contains nutrients in sufficient amounts for microbes to grow. In order to grow microbes in your laboratory, your teacher will supply you with sterilised nutrient agar in Petri dishes which contain all the necessary nutrients required.
Carry out the investigation described below. You can also make a comparison to see if washing your hands has any effect on the presence of bacteria. You will need the following equipment for each group of 2 students:
• 4 Petri dishes containing sterilised nutrient agar;
• Marking pencil;
• Tape;
• 3 clean cotton wool buds;
• A bottle containing sterile water;
• Access to an incubation oven set at 20 degrees Celsius.
Wear a lab coat to protect your clothes and to prevent cross contamination. All used Petri dishes should be destroyed in the proper manner by your teacher. DO NOT take swabs from locations that might be sources of disease causing (pathogenic) bacteria, e.g. toilets, handkerchiefs, sink traps etc.
Experiments should be carried out in accordance with local laboratory safety standards.
In order to have significant results, the same experiment will be repeated by each group in the class and used for comparison.
In Petri dish 1 – With a marking pencil, draw a line across the bottom of the Petri dish to divide it in half. Mark one half A and the other half B. Draw your finger across side A and close the lid quickly. Now wash your hands with soap and water and move the washed hand quickly across half B. Close the lid and seal it with tape.
Petri dish 2, 3 – Between yourselves, decide which areas of the lab may be best suited to investigate the presence of micro-organisms - perhaps the door handle or water taps.
Surfaces should be swabbed in the following way: take a clean cotton wool bud, dip it into one ml of sterile water, then pass it back and forth over the surface you are going to investigate. Place it back in the sterile water and shake the swab to release the microbes. Pour the liquid containing the sample into the Petri dish and seal the dish with the tape.
Leave Petri dish 4 untouched. Tape the lid. Why do you think this is important?
Give all four Petri dishes, clearly labelled, to your teacher who will place them into an incubating oven over night. Look at your plates over a period of 2-3 days and make drawings of what you observe.
Class results
In Petri dish 1 did you observe any changes between side A and side B? If so, explain what effect washing hands had on the growth of bacteria.
On the ISS, how important do you think it is to keep surfaces clean? Can you think why working on Columbus would require extra care from the astronauts? (Think of the confined area, types of experiments carried out….)
Have a look at the images of microbes grown from swabs (In the pictures shown here) and compare it with what you found in your laboratory (Petri dish 2 and 3). What do you notice, if anything?
What did you see in Petri dish 4?
Why do you think it was necessary to have a control experiment?
Make clear drawings of your results.
Most hygienic and planetary protection regulations for space vehicles and spacecraft assembly rooms are based on 'spore'counts'. Some microbes can produce spores which are reproductive structures that can survive extended periods of time in unfavourable conditions.


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People were in attendance but let's be real, they're not as photogenic.
cute as ever! i love their headbands 😉
Just when you think they can't get any cuter, BAM, they're cuter 😉
DIE FOR THE HEADBANDS!!!!!!!!!!! omg
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Get a set for your two!!!
Is Hugo Boss a permanent addition to your household? Hugo & Lily – great match ❤
He is! They sure seem like it 🙂
Ahhhhhh that last photo made my heart melt a little bit. I could feel it melting. SOOOOO CUTEEEEE!!! I feel like that's all I ever say to you haha! "Damn your knit talent, and your dogs make me die". Sounds about right.
Haha, repetition doesn't bother me 😉 Lucille makes my heart melt too, I know I say that all the time on Instagram!
For the love of cute!! So glad that she and her new brother are getting along!
She's enjoying same-size company! They almost play *too* much, is that possible?!
In. Love. Lily and Hugo are too cute!
I'm not sure I have the names right. I'm a new reader, but I love the adorable pics!
You got'em right! 🙂
Dressed up beasties! I LOVE THESE PHOTOS. ❤
Thanks! You should totes dress up Cypress!
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Typically SiFi writers and futurologists make their forecasts for future. Now I am joining them with my own forecast. It is an entrenched habit to show the future equipped magic tools like antigravitators and space-time gates. One can see them in many SiFi films. However, I will not follow this habit. In order to make my forecast realistic I am going to confine myself to those technologies which are available now or to those which will for sure be available in the nearest future.
Overpopulation problems in some regions were already detected in the past. For instance, Stolypin's reforms in Russia in the beginning of 20-th century include the plan of transmigration of a part of peasants from central regions to Siberia and to Far East regions. Earlier the overpopulation problems in Western Europe caused migration to America.
Two World wars, the Russian revolution of 1917, and the quick industrialization changed the traditional lifestyle of Europeans and thus solved the overpopulation problem. Currently the Europe suffers from the depopulation of aboriginal peoples. However, if we consider the planet in whole, the Earth population is growing fast. The growth is provided by advances in modern medicine that cures most of the mass infections. It is also provided by the intensified agriculture using artificial fertilizers and highly productive animals and plants. The population growth produces many concomitant problems. These are:
There are several scenarios for evolving the Earth population. The first one in the spontaneous growth accompanied by the escalation of concomitant problems. The second scenario is the population control. This scenario is now being realized in China. Theoretically, this scenario could stabilize the population and could balance the consumption of resources with their regeneration. However, it has some negative points.
In the case of global population control the Earth becomes somewhat like a wildlife sanctuary (reservation) for the mankind. In such a reservation each human will be planned to be born, will consume a planned amount of resources, and will be planned to die. The development of new technologies and new lifestyles will be prohibited by limited resources and by risks to disbalance their consumption. The absence of free areas will lead to the social and psychological bondage of a person. The social roles of a human in such a society will be predetermined by the social status of his parents, the opportunities for self realization will move to leisure and entertainments. There will be a lot of non-productive professions and jobs in the area of resource control and resource distribution, in the area of conflict settlement, in legal consulting. Mankind will be drowned in the web of bureaucracy instituted by itself.
The main objection to the global population control is the asteroid threat. The Mankind being in harmony with the Nature and having conserved itself within the realms of the Earth could be annihilated at a moment (like dinosaurs) by an impact of some sufficiently large cosmic stony rock.
The third scenario for evolving the Earth population is the most extreme. It is based on changing the biology of the human species. The primary need of a human that requires permanent reproduction is the need for food. Various branches of modern economy are built for satisfying this need: the agriculture, foods manufacture, foods storage, foods transportation, food markets including restaurants and other catering business establishments.
On the other hand, we know that lizards, snakes, and even crocodiles, in specific amounts per the unit of their weights, eat much less than mammals, a human being one of which. It is because we spend the most part of our eaten food for maintaining the constant temperature of our bodies (36.6 degree Celsius). These thermal expenses of our body do not require the diversity of foods. The idea is modify our body in such a way that it will cover the caloric expenditure by using some cheap food easy to produce or even chemically synthesized.
The best candidate for such an energetic food is ethanol (ethyl alcohol). It is easily produced from low-grade raw materials, e. g. from cheap grain, from straw, from hay, from wastes of forest industry. It can also be synthesized from the oil components and from the natural gas. However, in order to consume the alcohol as a food one should modify genetically its metabolism in a human organism in order to exclude its action upon the brain and to direct its metabolites to covering the thermal energy losses of a body. Simultaneously the problem of alcoholism will be solved since consumption of the alcohol will not lead to this disease any more.
Its easy to imagine that a gallon of vodka and a light breakfast of vitamins and proteins with small amounts of greeds and minerals will cover our daily needs of eating, while the extra spare time freed from lunches and dinners could be used for relaxing and for entertainments.
Another candidate for an energetic food is sugar or one of its components —
glucose. Glucose is also easily produced from low-grade vegetal raw materials and wastes of forest industry (cellulose hydrolysis). However, its direct synthesis from oil or gas is not possible. Like in the case of the alcohol, a genetic modification of a human is required in order to prevent diabetes and in order to direct all of the sugar consumed to heating the body without storing in energetic depots of our organism.
One more way for genetic modification of a human is if he gains some internal energy storage organ that could be charged in the night directly from the domestic electricity supply network.
Getting freed from hard food dependence Mankind will be able to pull back the agricultural production thus reducing the pressure upon the environment. The areas freed after that will be used for building houses for new inhabitants. The amounts of household refuse will also be reduced since its most part now is food packages.
Another urgent need of a human is the need for oxygen. In the Earth atmosphere this need is satisfied without special efforts. However, in order to dip into other media we require special tools.
In order to dip in the water we need an aqualung, in order to get in the cosmos we need a space suit.
Both suits hamper our motions. The need for such suits restricts our ability to adapt for living
in other media.
Thus we have the idea to investigate the mechanisms of oxygen consumption in our
organism and modify them genetically so that a human could deal without consuming the atmospheric
oxygen. As an alternative we can choose some other oxidizer or a substance able to educe the oxygen
when eaten as a food.
A human freed from the oxygen dependence will be able to populate the bottoms of seas and oceans. The live will be safer, there will be no drowned people any more, there will be no people
suffocated in a fire.
A human freed from the oxygen dependence has a little bit to do in order to live in the cosmic space. He should adapt his body to a high level of solar radiation not screened by the magnetic field of the Earth and he should exclude the water losses through the conjunctiva if his eyes. These problems will also be solved by means of genetic modification of the human species.
The Mankind has already made its first steps in the cosmic space. However, in order to colonize the cosmos one should change the technology of getting in over there. The currently used jet start or rocket start is too expensive. It cannot provide the required traffic for building cosmic villages and cities. It should be replaced by an electromagnetic catapult.
Let's discuss this tool in more details. For the beginning one should dig a tunnel within the Earth. Somewhat like a subway tunnel or like the Euro-tunnel under the English Channel. The tunnel can be straight (like on Fig. 1) or it can be bent arcwise (like on Fig. 2). Inside the tunnel one should settle a track similar to those built for magnetic levitation trains. Such trains are already used in Japan. Apart from levitation magnets, the track is equipped with a linear electric engine. Its stator is the tunnel itself, while its rotor (its armature) is a super-high-speed cosmic train. Both outlets of the tunnel are covered with lids, and then it is evacuated. Accelerating in such a vacuum tunnel, the cosmic train reaches the first cosmic speed or the second cosmic speed depending to which orbit it should be launched.
Just an instance before the cosmic train comes to exit the outlet lid is shot off. Moving by inertia, the cosmic train begins to thrust through the atmosphere. At that time the nose cowl of the cosmic train is subjected to substantial thermal and mechanical loads. This cowl should be made solid of a refractory metalloceramics. The cowl could be several meters thick. Nevertheless, when going trough the atmosphere it could burn out almost completely.
The sizes of the cosmic train should be approximately the same as those of a subway train. However, unlike them, it is not composed of separate cars. It should be a solid vehicle for not to bend when going though the atmosphere. On its sides in the rear part it should have nozzles of maneuver jet engines. They will provide the stable orientation of the cosmic train along its velocity vector.
Taking quite admissible for a human triple overweight when the cosmic train accelerates within the tunnel, we find that in order to reach the first cosmic speed at the exit the tunnel should be approximately 1000 kilometers long. In order to reach the second cosmic speed it should be 4000 kilometers long.
Cosmic trains launched by electromagnetic catapults will not be designed to return back to
the Earth. Their passengers will understand that they leave their home planet forever. They will become pioneering space inhabitants. It is quite likely that they will not be the best representatives of the Earth. Conversely, the volunteers will be picked up among those who did not find their place on the Earth for some reasons and who are disappointed in "earthly values". Being able to deal without oxygen and almost without food, these volunteers will mount cosmic cities from construction materials supplied from the Earth.
The energetics of cosmic cities will be based on the sun light. Before mounting a city a huge
panel of solar batteries will be unfolded. In other words, a city will be attached to a battery rather than a battery to a city.
The first industries in such cosmic cities will be factories producing constructive materials. Basically that will be metallic building components. For the beginning the raw materials will be supplied from the Earth. Then other sources will be used. One of such sources is the Moon. Nowadays we do not know any deposit of iron ore on the Moon. However, any celestial body should have a lot of silicon containing minerals. Now for us the silicon is a material for microelectronics. But it's quite likely that for cosmic inhabitants it will become a basic constructive material.
Where will the cosmic cities be placed? I think that it is better to place then not on a geocentric orbit but on some heliocentric orbit between the orbits of the Earth and the Mars. In the beginning that will be separate islands of settlements distributed along the huge orbit of hundreds of million kilometers. I think it will take several millennia before these settlements fill the whole orbit. Then they will form a habitable orbital ring. Of cause, it will not be a solid construction, but the communication lines and roads will be laid along them. That will be the time when pedestrians can walk along the orbit.
Building the first ring will require a lot of materials. It is quite possible that the whole Moon will be used for these purposes. As a result we will visually observe for the first time the inner structure of a large celestial body. It is quite possible that the Moon, like the Earth, has a metallic kernel, and this kernel could contain a lot of rear and precious metals. Gold markets will collapse.
Building the first ring will require a lot of workers. In these circumstances, even making a human immortal by means of genetic modification, we will not have the overpopulation problem. The knowledge gaining procedure will be totally different. Nowadays we spend a substantial part of our life for education — in a school and in a university. After that, upon gaining a profession we find that we are bound to our profession. I thing at the times of building rings all of the required knowledge will be written directly to the brain, just like now we write a program to a hard disk of a computer. No exams, no learning by hart, no mental efforts for learning at all. A person will be able to change easily his profession if he wishes or if another profession is of more demand.
After building the first ring, the second ring, the third ring etc will be built. There will be thousand or even many thousands of orbital rings. The plane of each next ring will be slightly turned with respect to the plane of the previous one. As a result the Sun will be surrounded with a dense clew of orbital rings forming somewhat like a sphere which astronomers call the Dyson sphere. Almost all of the solar radiation will be consumed by rings and will be spent for human needs.
If the natural power of the sun will be insufficient, some tools like the Giant Solar Laser will be used for to enforce the extraction of extra power from the Sun. Probably using such devices will cause the scenario of the Sun life will be made more peaceful and it terminates its life without explosions and growing in its sizes. But even if the Sun begins to blow up at the end of its life, one can save rings by elongating them and moving to a safe distance.
Along with building new rings, the Mankind will start its expansion to other stars. I think at that time we will be able to build star ships as big a towns. They will carry the whole infrastructure needed for to start building new rings at the destination. Even if the flight will take several thousands of years, it will fit within the length of a human life which will be practically infinite.
The material of all planets of the Solar System will be spent on building habitable rings. I think the Earth will be an exception. It will be saved as a museum. That will be the area of wild animals. Also some orthodox people will live there, those who reject the genetic modification and preserve their genuine "human beings". The will live their short "human ages" like we do it now but in more comfort and insouciance. After billions of years, when the Sun will be quenching, the Earth will be surrounded with transportation rings and will be slowly moved to a younger star.


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Whitney Houston, the multimillion-selling singer who emerged in the 1980s as one of her generation's greatest R & B voices, only to deteriorate through years of cocaine use and an abusive marriage, died on Saturday in Beverly Hills, Calif. She was 48.
Her death came as the music industry descended on Los Angeles for the annual celebration of the Grammy Awards, and Ms. Houston was — for all her difficulties over the years — one of its queens. She was staying at the Beverly Hilton hotel on Saturday to attend a pre-Grammy party being hosted by Clive Davis, the founder of Arista Records, who had been her pop mentor.
Ms. Houston was found in her room at 3:55 p.m., and paramedics spent close to 20 minutes trying to revive her, the authorities said. There was no immediate word on the cause of her death, but the authorities said there were no signs of foul play.
From the start of her career more than two decades ago, Ms. Houston had the talent, looks and pedigree of a pop superstar. She was the daughter of Cissy Houston, a gospel and pop singer who had backed up Aretha Franklin, and the cousin of Dionne Warwick. (Ms. Franklin is Ms. Houston's godmother.)
Ms. Houston's range spanned three octaves, and her voice was plush, vibrant and often spectacular. She could pour on the exuberant flourishes of gospel or peal a simple pop chorus; she could sing sweetly or unleash a sultry rasp.
Dressed in everything from formal gowns to T-shirts, she cultivated the image of a fun-loving but ardent good girl, the voice behind songs as perky as "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)" and as torchy as what became her signature song, a version of Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You."
But by the mid-1990s, even as she was moving into acting with films like "The Bodyguard" and "The Preacher's Wife," she became what she described, in a 2009 interview with Oprah Winfrey, as a "heavy" user of marijuana and cocaine. By the 2000s she was struggling; her voice grew smaller, scratchier and less secure, and her performances grew erratic.
All of Ms. Houston's studio albums were million-sellers, and two have sold more than 10 million copies in the United States alone: her 1985 debut album and the 1992 soundtrack to "The Bodyguard," which includes "I Will Always Love You."
But her marriage to the singer Bobby Brown — which was, at one point, documented in a Bravo reality television series, "Being Bobby Brown" — grew miserable, and in the 2000s, her singles slipped from the top 10. Ms. Houston became a tabloid subject: the National Enquirer ran a photo of her bathroom showing drug paraphernalia. And each new album — "Just Whitney" in 2002 and "I Look to You" in 2009 — became a comeback.
At Central Park in 2009, singing for "Good Morning America," her voice was frayed, and on the world tour that followed the release of the album "I Look to You" that year, she was often shaky.
Whitney Houston was born on Aug. 9, 1963, in Newark. She sang in church, and as a teenager in the 1970s and early 1980s, she worked as a backup studio singer and featured vocalist with acts including Chaka Khan, the Neville Brothers and Bill Laswell's Material.
Mr. Davis signed her after hearing her perform in a New York City nightclub, and spent two years supervising production of the album "Whitney Houston," which was released in 1985. It placed her remarkable voice in polished, catchy songs that straddled pop and R & B, and it included three No. 1 singles: "Saving All My Love for You," "How Will I Know" and "The Greatest Love of All."
Because Ms. Houston had been credited on previous recordings, including a 1984 duet with Teddy Pendergrass, she was ruled ineligible for the best new artist category of the Grammy Awards; the eligibility criteria have since been changed. But with "Saving All My Love for You," she won her first Grammy award, for best female pop vocal performance, an award she would win twice more.
Her popularity soared for the next decade. Her second album, "Whitney," in 1987, became the first album by a woman to enter the Billboard charts at No. 1, and it included four No. 1 singles. She shifted her pop slightly toward R & B on her third album, "I'm Your Baby Tonight," in 1990, which had two more No. 1 singles.
For much of the 1990s, she turned to acting, bolstered by her music. She played a pop diva in "The Bodyguard," and its soundtrack album — including the hits "I Will Always Love You," "I'm Every Woman," "I Have Nothing" and "Run to You" — went on to sell 17 million copies in the United States. It won the Grammy for album of the year, and "I Will Always Love You" won record of the year (for a single). After making the films "Waiting To Exhale" in 1995 and "The Preacher's Wife" in 1996 — which gave her the occasion to make a gospel album — Ms. Houston resumed her pop career with "My Love Is Your Love" in 1998.
Ms. Houston married Mr. Brown in 1992, and in 1993 they had a daughter, Bobbi Kristina, who survives her. Ms. Houston's 2009 interview with Ms. Winfrey portrayed it as a passionate and then turbulent marriage, marred by drug use and by his professional jealousy, psychological abuse and physical confrontations. They divorced in 2007.
Her albums in the 2000s advanced a new persona for Ms. Houston. "Just Whitney," in 2002, was defensive and scrappy, lashing out at the media and insisting on her loyalty to her man. Her most recent studio album, "I Look to You," appeared in 2009, and it, too, reached No. 1. The album included a hard-headed breakup song, "Salute," and a hymnlike anthem, "I Didn't Know My Own Strength." Ms. Houston sang, "I crashed down and I tumbled, but I did not crumble/I got through all the pain," in a voice that showed scars.
Neil R. Portnow, president of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, which bestows the Grammys, called her "one of the world's greatest pop singers of all time, who leaves behind a robust musical soundtrack."
"A light has been dimmed in our music community today," he said.
Lt. Mark Rosen, a spokesman for the Beverly Hills Police Department, said that emergency workers responded to a 911 call from security at the Beverly Hilton hotel on Wilshire Boulevard at 3:43 p.m., saying that Ms. Houston was unconscious in her fourth-floor suite. He said that some Fire Department personnel were already on the scene to help prepare for a pre-Grammy party.
Lieutenant Rosen said that detectives had arrived to conduct what he said was a full-scale investigation into the death. He said that Ms. Houston's body was still in the hotel room as of 8 p.m. and would not be removed until the investigation was completed.
"There were no obvious signs of foul play," he said. "It's still fresh an investigation to know whether — the reality is she was too far too young to die and any time you have the death of someone this age it is the subject of an investigation."
Ms. Houston arrived at the hotel with what Lieutenant Rosen described as an entourage of friends and family, some of whom were in the hotel suite at the time. He said that police had notified Ms. Houston's mother and daughter of the death; it was unclear whether or not they were there.
At Mr. Davis's party, where Ms. Houston was a regular guest and performer, tourists shot cellphone pictures of a police crime laboratory van parked outside. But inside, the glamour of the event seemed undiminished, even if Ms Houston's name was on everyone's lips
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The streets in front of the Beverly Hilton, already crowded because of the Grammy Awards party taking place there, swarmed with reporters and fans, drawn by the news of this latest high-profile pop star dying in Los Angeles.
Even after the news of Ms. Houston's death had been released, celebrities and other partygoers continued to arrive for the Davis event, which went on as planned, while fans stood behind a rope trying to take pictures. Dressed in evening gowns and tuxedos, people stepped out of limousines at curbside and streamed into the hotel.
A number of fans came to mourn Ms. Houston and to show their support. "I was in utter, total disbelief," Lavetris Singleton said. "Who was not a fan of Whitney Houston at some point?"
"I want to show support because she inspired a lot of people and nobody's perfect," she said. "But if we're not out here then she'll be forgotten. We are her legacy."
Performers at the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles, where the Grammys are to be held, heard about Ms. Houston's death just as Rihanna and Coldplay were about to rehearse their number for the awards.
The show's producer, Ken Ehrlich, debated about how to acknowledge Ms. Houston's death. (The show is already scheduled to include a tribute by Alicia Keys and Bonnie Raitt to Etta James, the blues singer who died last month, as well as a video segment about music figures who died in 2011.)
After the initial shock, Mr. Ehrlich said he called Jennifer Hudson and asked her to come and sing one of Ms. Houston's songs during the televised show on Sunday as a simple memorial. "We are going to do something very simple, not elaborate," he said. "We just want to keep it respectful."
"My feeling was it's too early to do an extended tribute," Mr. Ehrlich added, "but we really wanted to remember her because she was so closely tied to the Grammys."
Besides her daughter, now 18, Ms. Houston is survived by her mother. A woman who answered the telephone at the Edgewater, N.J., home of Ms. Houston's mother on Saturday night said she would not speak to reporters.


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Woof All:
I enjoyed this piece, but I would comment that it seems to forget the substantial contributions of foreigners coming to America in some of our achievements. Also too, the "the most" description is a bit jingoistic. That said, an interesting hypothesis.
Nation & World 5/12/03
By Michael Barone
A tale of two nations
Who has not been impressed by the American military personnel we have been seeing over these past two months? Calm, terse, determined, brave, confident--above all, competent, able to vanquish the enemy and spare the innocent with astonishingly low casualties. And yet a few years ago most of these young men and women were typical American 18-year-olds, most of whom don't seem competent at much of anything.
One of the peculiar features of our country is that we produce incompetent 18-year-olds and remarkably competent 30-year-olds. Americans at 18 typically score lower on standardized tests than 18-year-olds from other advanced countries. Watch them on their first few days working at McDonald's or behind the counter in chain drugstores, and it's obvious that they don't really know how to make change or keep the line moving. But by the time Americans are 30, they are the most competent people in the world. They produce a stronger and more vibrant private-sector economy; they produce scientific and technical advances that lead the world; they provide the world's best medical care; they create the strongest and most agile military the world has ever seen. And it's not just a few meritocrats at the top: American talent runs wide and deep.
Why? Because from the age of 6 to 18, our kids live mostly in what I call Soft America--the part of our society where there is little competition and accountability. In contrast, most Americans in the 12 years between ages 18 and 30 live mostly in Hard America--the part of American life subject to competition and accountability; the military trains under live fire. Soft America seeks to instill self-esteem. Hard America plays for keeps.
Fighting back. Soft America for a long time has been running most of our schools. Since early in the 20th century, as Diane Ravitch has shown in Left Back, educators have had a mistrust of testing and competition and a yearning to protect children from their rigors. Educators ban tag and dodge ball, because some kids lose. Teacher unions seek tenure, higher pay, and lower accountability. Parents' expectations are often low: Mom and Dad, busy working in Hard America, don't want to notice that their kids are not learning much. There are exceptions of course: Many schools do a good job despite all this. But for most kids who are not on the track to the relatively few select colleges, junior high and high school are something like the Soviet system: They pretend to teach, and we pretend to learn.
Then at 18, kids encounter Hard America--competitive colleges and universities and community colleges, competitive private-sector employers, training institutions from McDonald's to the military. Some fall behind and don't get much of anywhere. Others seek out enclaves of Soft America--soft corners in the civil service or corporate bureaucracies. But most figure out pretty quickly that how they do depends on what they produce. They develop skills that astonish those who knew them at 18. That is what we have been seeing in the American military forces in Iraq.
Soft America took over much of society because in the early and middle 20th century, America seemed to many people to be too Hard. Not many kids made it up the educational and job ladders. Much work was hard labor, and in the 1930s, jobs were scarce and charity inadequate. Educators wanted to make schools Soft, and New Dealers wanted to shield people from the marketplace with strong unions and Social Security. By the 1970s Soft America was trying to Soften Hard America with guaranteed incomes, job tenure, and comparable worth (bureaucrats, not markets, setting salaries).
In the 1980s and 1990s Hard America fought back. Surging private-sector growth brushed aside attempts to Soften the Hard economy. The military, hobbled by public contempt after Vietnam, built a voluntary force in which people could gain benefits and honor by performing. Politicians started passing laws to make the people who run the schools accountable for results. A sensible society wants to keep some part of itself Soft: We don't want to subject kindergartners to the rigors of the Marine Corps or to leave old people helpless and uncared for. But a sensible society also understands--and the military has been driving home the lesson--that Soft America lives off the productivity, creativity, and competence of Hard America. And that we have the luxury of keeping part of our society Soft only if we keep most of it Hard.
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Mr. Barone, in his dualistic analysis, doesn't explore the possibility that what makes those 30 year-olds successful is the so-called "Soft" period they spent as children. Giving kids, in particular, the space to explore and make mistakes without harsh consequences raining on their heads leads them to a higher degree of trust in themselves and appetite for risk, which in turn can lead to a stronger appetite for risk and exploration in "Hard America."
Far from being mutually exclusive, or even at odds with one another, "soft" and "hard" are complementary; you need both halves for the whole. To put it into training terms, you would be wise not to go into a real contact fight until you've had at least some training in the "softer" environment of drills and exercises. And many have made the case to me that a hard stick changes the quality of your "softer" exercises, without making them fighting.
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That was very good. Thank you.
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My pleasure. And thank you for continually posting items of interest, here and in the other thread (esp. Current Events: Phillipines, which gives me insight into an interesting country I've never visited).
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