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- 2019 Fortune Charity Bazaar
Although November was chilly, Fortune Kindergarten is full of warm hearts. Fortune Charity Bazaars, launched by our Parent Support Group (PSG), raised money to help those families in need. We are very thankful for the generosity of our Fortune families.
- 2019 Halloween Day
On October 31st, wearing all kinds of "strange clothes" and carrying small bags, the children went to each classroom to "Trick-or-Treat". There were so many interesting Halloween games, costume shows, and a "Haunted House", which the children were excited to try. What a happy day!
- 2019 Family Sports Day
This autumn in October, all campuses of Fortune Kindergarten held annual "Family Sports Day". Children and their parents took part in a marathon and many fun games. Children gain success through their own efforts and became more confident and independent.
- China National Day
We celebrated the 70th Anniversary of China National Day in Fortune Kindergarten before October 1st. Kids enjoyed the various activities and gave best wishes to our country!
- 2019-2020 New School Year
On September 2nd, we welcomed in the start of the new 2019-2020 school year. The children walked into the newly decorated classroom and met their new teachers, ayis and classmates. How happy they were! Although some new students were shy, it's natural, and we believe that with the help of the teachers and ayis, they will soon be feeling comfortable and well-integrated into this happy family of Fortune.
- 2019 Language Arts Festival
The Language Arts Festival was held in Fortune Kindergartens. Each class prepared their own stage presentation and invited their parents to come watch the show!
- 2019 Easter Day
In April, springtime arrives! After decorating pretty bags, children of Fortune Kindergarten put on the cute rabbit ears and enjoyed a fun traditional Easter egg hunt!
- 2019Multi Culture Month
In March, Multi Culture Month has begun in all campuses of Fortune Kindergarten. During the activities, children learned about the basic national conditions and cultural traditions of different countries, such as flags, traditional food, traditional costumes, traditional stories and so on. Through these activities, the children will be given multiple experiences, and children will be trained to face the future and face the world, so that they will become proud world citizens who are familiar with the traditions of their own countries and the cultures of other countries.
- 2019 Lantern Festival
The 15th day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival and a day where families come together. Fortune Kindergartens' children celebrated in many ways including making dumplings, tasting dumplings, lighting lanterns and guessing riddles to welcome the arrival of this traditional festival.
- Celebrate Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year is an important traditional holiday in China and during this time children celebrate the Spring Festival by writing lucky words, giving out red packets, making dumplings and decorating the windows with traditional paper cutouts. Children from Fortune Kindergartens celebrated the arrival of the traditional festival together, in many ways, and also celebrated that they are going to be one year older!
- 2018 Fortune Winter Concert
All campuse of Fortune Kindergarten held a Winter Concert in December. Children showed many wonderful performances on the stage. Parents were very happy to see the children's growth and their spectacular show with festive singing, musical instruments and impressive choreographed dances.
- 2018 Fortune Christmas Charity Bazaar
In November, Fortune Kindergarten campuses held thier 2018 Christmas Bazaar. This huge event was organized by the Fortune Parent Support Group (FPSG). On that day, there were many wonderful indoor & outdoor games, face painting, many vendors with items and food for sale and an exciting raffle draw. This charity event offered an opportunity for children and parents to enjoy the fun and festivities, while contributing to a most worthy charity.
- Happy Halloween
Super heroes, villains, princesses, witches and ghosts! Halloween is always a fun celebration at Fortune Kindergarten. Children and teachers dressed up and enjoyed visiting one another's classrooms. They went to trick-or-treat around the school, and some were brave enough to venture into the scary dark room. Children recited Halloween poems and listened to some festive stories too. Halloween parties included face-painting, games, special meals and treats, and of course Halloween singing and dancing too. What a fun and spooky day!
- 2018 Family Sports Day
This October, all the Fortune Kindergarten campuses held their annual Family Sports day. The fun sports games for children and parents were enjoyed by all. On the race track, children tried their best to run quickly to the finish line. We're proud of everyone's efforts, whether they won or not. Thank you to all our students and parents for making this a fun and active day - promoting healthy lifestyles for our families!
- Jinkui Campus Family Day
Fortune Jinkui campus proudly opened their doors for their first-ever super family day on 21st September!Preschool families joined in our fun-filled classroom activities, enjoyed music with our stunning music team and, last but not least, our parents were amazed by our super P.E team as well! It was a great day to get to know about each family and, as our parents got involved in all the activities, it opened a new gate-way for our parents to get to know our preschool teachers and other staff as well.
- Happy Teachers' Day
This year the Xiehe Education Center Teacher's Day Forum 2018 welcomed some of Fortune Kindergarten's principals, teachers and staff to participate at the 34th Teacher's Day celebration. This celebration was centered on, "Chinese and foreign teachers dialogue: Promoting and practicing teacher's morality". At this event, educators shared the importance and necessary qualities good teachers need to demonstrate.
- 2018 Family Orientation Day
On August 31, 2018, the children and their parents of Fortune Kindergarten returned to their kindergarten to attend a half-day orientation. A variety of games and activities have helped parents and children rediscover school life and prepare them for the start of the 2018 school year.
- 2018 school year is here!
On August 15, 2018, all of the Fortune Kindergarten staff returned to school in anticipation of the new academic year. Although there is still half a month before school begins, we are working hard to provide a clean and safe teaching environment for the children, parents and staff. We hope that the children can have fun and play safely. In the next two weeks, teachers and ayis will be participating in various types of training to ensure their expertise and knowledge will be further enhanced. We all look forward to meeting you very soon!

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We enjoyed a pot-luck get together with friends on New Year's Eve. This is my new favorite cocktail ~ Cosmopolitan! I had a blast testing this recipe. 🙂
1-1/2 oz vokda; 1 oz each cointreau, cranberry juice, fresh squeezed lime juice, simple syrup; pour over ice in a shaker and shake until very cold. Strain into martini glass.
(Simple Syrup is made by dissolving 1 c. sugar into 1 c. water over low heat.)
I've given up on the typical New Year's resolutions, such as losing weight and exercising. While I need to do both, I know that I will be setting myself up for failure. Instead I am venturing into the blogging world. I truly believe that as we age, we need to continue learning. I am very excited to be learning about blogging as I progress through this new process. Isn't every new project an opportunity to learn something new?
Progress on Square Dance Quilt – Yesterday I cut the white strips I needed for the quilt using my Alto's Cutting System (www.quiltcut.com). I use various methods for cutting fabric, however, I find this method of cutting strips to be very efficient and accurate. The advantage to the Alto's Cutting System over just straight rotary cutting with a cutting mat is that there is a bar that "locks" the fabric down so that it doesn't move. Also, there is a cutting straight edge that is also "locked down" so that your ruler doesn't shift. I only needed 24 strips, so the cutting didn't take very long. If I have a lot to cut, I will stack fabric and can usually cut about 6 layers without much difficulty as long as I have a sharp blade in my rotary cutter. I also coordinated the jelly roll strips so I could start sewing the strip sets for the nine-patch units.
Book Review: Transparency Quilts
I received my copy of Transparency Quilts over the holidays. The book is written by Weeks Ringle and Bill Kerr of Modern Quilt Studio (formerly Fun Quilts). I have all of Weeks and Bill's previous books and I love their approach to design. There are 10 projects in the book and they are very sophisticated. They would all be lovely in my home. I have always loved the concept of transparency in quilts, but have never tried it. It does look a bit intimidating, but the fabric combination explanations in the book were helpful. I think I will start out with a baby quilt. If you like this style of quilt, I would highly recommend this book.
More later on the progress of Square Dance Quilt and Cat-in-the-Hat Quilt.
Happy New Year ~ Lora


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Yesterday we launched a competition inviting members of the public to propose a name for Philae's landing site. While many of you might be busy thinking of a good name to replace "Site J", we thought to provide you with some inspiration by revisiting the story of Rosetta's name.
If you are a regular follower of this blog you are no doubt familiar with the reasons why ESA's comet-chasing mission was named after the Rosetta Stone – a dark stele unearthed in 1799 near the town of Rashid (in English, Rosetta) on the Nile Delta, in Egypt. Carrying the text of the same decree in three different scripts, the Rosetta Stone helped nineteenth century scholars decipher the sacred written system of hieroglyphs, offering a new key into the study of the ancient Egyptian civilisation.
But maybe not all of you know the story of when and how the name Rosetta was chosen for the mission. Continue reading and all will be revealed in this interview with Professor Eberhard Grün, an Interdisciplinary Scientist for the Rosetta mission from the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany. A renowned expert on comets and interstellar dust who has been involved with the mission since its early days, Professor Grün has been often called the 'Father of Rosetta', since it was he who suggested this evocative name back in 1987.
Was the mission called Rosetta from the very start or did it have a different name at first?
"At the beginning it was simply called 'Comet Nucleus Sample Return'. As the name implies, the mission concept was quite different back then."
When was the mission first proposed?
"In 1985, ESA was putting together its long-term science programme, 'Horizon 2000'. There was still one year to go before Giotto would fly by comet Halley, but the community was already looking ahead and the Solar System Working Group recommended a comet nucleus sample return mission as a cornerstone of the programme. A joint ESA/NASA Science Definition Team was created to identify the scientific goals for such a mission, and I was the European chairman of that team."
What were the science objectives at the time?
"The core science goals haven't changed much: to rendezvous with an active and relatively fresh comet, studying its nucleus and what it's made of to trace back the raw material from which the solar system formed. At the time, there was a large community who analysed meteorites in the lab to understand their chemical composition. Meteorites are debris from (mainly) asteroids that make it to the surface of Earth, and their study helped us piece together the chemical composition of the solar system today. But if we want to study the primordial solar system, comets are the objects to explore. While asteroids formed between Mars and Jupiter, comets formed much farther away from the Sun, so comet material has been much less processed and is much closer to the pristine composition of the solar system."
So comets take us one step further back in time?
"In a way, comets hold the key to link meteorites, which we can access and study on Earth, to our ultimate goal – understanding the composition of the interstellar cloud where our star and planets were born. With a space mission to visit a comet and collect samples from its nucleus, we could gather brand new information to decipher the history of our solar system. And it was then that it occurred to me: this is the same story as the Rosetta Stone!"
What do you mean exactly?
"Until the nineteenth century, scholars of Ancient Egypt were in a very similar situation. They had many clues to study the history, culture and art, but couldn't grasp this thousand-year-long civilisation in its full entirety until they deciphered its language. The discovery of the Rosetta Stone changed the course of this discipline. It was the first document in which the same text appears in two languages – ancient Greek and ancient Egyptian, the latter in two different forms: the more common Demotic script and the mysterious hieroglyphs."
"The Rosetta Stone provided scholars the link between a language they could read and understand – ancient Greek – and the unknown language of ancient Egypt. The connection was made easier by the presence of the same text in two different Egyptian scripts that are both based on phonetic as well as ideographic symbols."
So when did you suggest the name Rosetta?
"When this idea first crossed my mind, towards the end of 1986, I went to the library at the University of Heidelberg to learn more about the Rosetta Stone and how it revolutionised the study of Ancient Egypt. There was clearly a parallel with comets and their role to interpret the history of the solar system, and besides, the name 'Rosetta' was much more powerful than what we had before. I phoned Gerhard Schwehm, who was the mission study scientist at ESA, and he liked the idea. The entire Science Definition Team thought it was a great name and also Roger Bonnet, ESA's Science Director at the time, so it stuck pretty quickly. "
"By the end of 1987, we referred to the mission as 'Rosetta – Comet Nucleus Sample Return' in the first study report from the Science Definition Team. The front page of the report also featured a photo of the original Rosetta Stone, with its three different scripts, along with an artistic rendition of a planetary science analogue of the ancient stone tablet, with the three different steps of our inquiry: meteorites, comets and interstellar clouds."
That's the beginning of the story. What happened to Rosetta next?
"The original plan was to collect a sample of material from the comet's nucleus and send it back to Earth to analyse it in a lab, and we all had a different idea of how to achieve this. But in the early 1990s NASA withdrew from the project because of financial difficulties, and the mission was redefined so that ESA could perform this alone. Rather than bringing the material back home, Rosetta is now taking the lab to the comet. The focus remained on the analysis of the material in the nucleus (although the comparison with meteorites is no longer explicitly among the goals) and the processes that control the nucleus and its environment."
"But the name still fits the mission perfectly: every new day with Rosetta at the comet, we are gathering more clues on how a comet works and how to decipher the solar system hieroglyphs and piece together our cosmic origins."


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The All-Natural Miracle Ingredient That Makes Your Skin Glow
It seems like such a simple – even "basic" – ingredient, but honey is essentially liquid gold when it comes to skincare. The sticky sweet stuff has been used in beauty for centuries, dating all the way back to Cleopatra, who used the ingredient herself.
Honey isn't just one of those make-shift "maybe it'll work" home remedy ingredients, either. Numerous scientific studies, including this one from 2012 and this one from 2013 have confirmed that honey is a hero ingredient in dermatology. It's anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, and extremely moisturizing and nourishing; making it an amazing for both dry skin and acne-prone skin. If you're keen on slathering yourself with honey, start with one of these well-reviewed products below.
Lancôme Miel-En-Mousse Makeup Remover with Acacia Honey
We can't say enough nice things about Lancôme's Miel-En-Mousse Makeup Remover, $40, an oil-based cleanser that's formulated with acacia honey and floral extracts. It's a luxury buy, for sure, but it offers a luxury experience that'll have you looking forward to your nightly face wash routine. To use, dispense the product onto your fingers and then massage onto dry skin. It creates the most beautiful lather, and you can practically feel it picking up the day's grime. Rinsing is a breeze, and your skin is left silky soft and hydrated.
Dr Roebuck's Tama Healing Mask
If you've been paying attention to trendy skincare ingredients, then you may recognize that Dr Roebuck's Tama Healing Mask, $28, contains a lot of them. In addition to manuka honey, it's formulated with skin-renewing turmeric, ultra-hydrating avocado oil, and exfoliating kaolin clay. All skin types can use it, but it's especially great for those with dull, dry, or uneven skin tones who are looking for a complexion pick-me-up.
Knours. Sweet Enough Rescue Mask
Knours. is a relatively new brand that prides itself on using vegan and natural ingredients. Their Sweet Enough Rescue Mask, $6, boasts an exciting list of ingredients, including honey, calming rose water, soothing cica, niacinamide (B3), and a host of natural extracts. Not all sheet masks are made with such care, and this one's a winner.
Farmacy Honeymoon Glow
If you're in the market for a new at-home acid treatment, Farmacy's Honeymoon Glow, $58, is def worth looking into. It's a recent launch from the brand that's quickly risen to fame for its miracle-working ways. Honeymoon Glow is a strong, but still gentle, night serum that contains a 14% AHA/BHA/flower acid blend that helps refine pores, improve tone, and boost glow. It tingles slightly when you put it on (in a good way) and makes a noted difference even after one use. Many have compared it to Sunday Riley's Good Genes, $105, claiming it's actually the better of the two.
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Marin Bee Honey Polish
Dry elbows, cracked heels, or dull skin got you down? A little honey-infused polish might get you out of that rut. Marin's Bee Honey Polish, $38, can be applied on all the above and anywhere else that could use some exfoliation. It contains one-third California wild honey, along with olive oil, sunflower seed oil, aloe leaf powder, and kernal flour.
Booth Honey Almond Body Butter
After scrubbing, follow up with a rich cream to infuse and lock in moisture. C. Booth's Honey Almond Body Butter, $8, not only does so effectively, but it does so at a pretty sweet price. This one's mildly scented, not too heavy, non-greasy, and easily melts into skin.
CosRx Honey Ceramide Full Moisture Cream
Last on our list is CosRx's Honey Ceramide Full Moisture Cream, $26, which combines the magnificent powers of both manuka honey and ceramides to help repair and nourish your face. Not sure what ceramides do? Let us explain. Think of your skin cells as bricks and consider ceramides the cement that holds them together. As we get older, our body stops producing as many ceramides, which can result in skin laxity, dullness, and poor texture. By adding ceramides to your regimen, you can bolster your skin's barrier for a brighter, firmer, more hydrated complexion.
Do you guys love honey as much as we do? Check out this super easy honey face mask DIY for glowing skin:
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DIY Turmeric face mask! Great for acne and dark circles! Turmeric has amazing antioxidant properties! It reduces inflammation and redness, promotes skin healing, and softens lines and wrinkles. Here's the recipe for this Amazing ACNE fighter: Ingredients 1 teaspoon of turmeric 1 teaspoon of raw organic honey 1 teaspoon of natural yoghurt 1 teaspoon of lemon juice-optional (great for lightening the skin and fighting oil) Put all the ingredients into a small bowl & mix together well. You can adjust the amount of the yogurt you use to make the thickness as you like but make sure it's a firm paste that will stick to your face. Turmeric is a dye and it can stain anything, so you don't want it dripping off your face. Apply the mask evenly all over your face! Let the mask dry on your face for 20 minutes and then wash it off with cool water. Dry your face gently with a face towel. You can repeat this mask ever few weeks. The only side effect is that turmeric will turn your skin a little yellow since it is a dye but that can be cleared using a cotton pad and facial toner. Turmeric is a good antioxidant, and an anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial agent. Honey is a great moisturizer & yogurt is a great exfoliator! #DIY #acne
Let us know any DIYs or honey beauty products that you love.


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UEC has accepted the Quality Management System Development Concept until 2025
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Moscow, November 23, 2017
United Engine Corporation (a Rostec State Corporation company) accepted the Quality Management System (QMS) Development Concept defining its main improvement trends until 2025 and ensuring a single approach to the establishment and operation of the QMS of the holding companies.
UEC's primary strategic goal as related to quality is maximum satisfaction of customers' requirements and delivery of products meeting the requirements of domestic and international quality standards. The QMS Development Concept is to be implemented in the following five principal domains:
In the "Products" domain the following can be mentioned among the main activities of the QMS Concept: improvements in the corporate system of quality indices management and its flow-down to the level of the companies' shops and production areas; introduction of information systems for product configuration management in production; organization of project work aimed at improvements in product quality in the companies. Within the framework of the "Processes" domain, utmost importance will be attached to the certification of the corporation's activity related to the manufacture and maintenance of aeronautical products as required by the Russian and international aviation regulations.
Besides, there are some actions foreseen in order to implement a corporate procedure of managing customers' claims to the quality of supplied products.
A key role is also assigned to the development of UEC staff's quality competences. In particular, it is planned to establish an information system in order to manage the staff's quality competences as well as to implement corporate training programs concerning the quality and certification of production activity.
The Concept is in line with the strategy of Rostec's aviation cluster. The strategy also implies all-round development of the quality management system.
In July 2017 UEC was successfully certified at the certification centre "Rostec-Sertifikat' and thus demonstrated the compliance of its quality management system with the requirements of GOST R ISO 9001-2015 and GOST RV 0015-002-2012 as applied to design, manufacture, tests, installation, assembly, maintenance, repair, disposal, and sale of products. A certificate was presented to Sergey Antropov, UEC Quality Director, by Vladlen Shorin, General Director of RT-Techpriemka, during the aviation show MASK-2017.
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(a Rostec State Corporation company) is an integrated organization specialized in the design and development, serial production and after-market support of engines for military and commercial aviation, space programs, the Navy as well as for the oil and gas industry and power generation. One of UEC's prioritized fields of activity is the implementation of comprehensive programs of development of the industry's companies by introducing new technologies meeting the world-class standards.
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is a Russian corporation established in 2007 in order to facilitate the development, manufacturing and export of high-technology industrial products of military and commercial application. The corporation comprises 700 companies, which form 11 defense-industrial and 3 civil industry holdings as well as 80 direct control companies. The Rostec portfolio spans such renowned brands as AVTOVAZ, KAMAZ, Kalashnikov Concern, Russian Helicopters, VSMPO-AVISMA, Uralvagonzavod and others. Rostec's subsidiaries are located in 60 regions of Russia and deliver their products to over 70 countries worldwide. Rostec's consolidated revenue in 2016 reached 1 trillion 266 billion rubles, the consolidated net profit — 88 bln rubles, and EBITDA — 268 bln rubles. The average salary of the Corporation in 2016 amounted to 44 000 rubles. Following Rostec's new strategy, the major objective of the Corporation is to ensure the technological advantage of Russia on competitive world markets. The introduction of a new technological structure and digitalization of Russian economy are among Rostec's key tasks.
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A visit to Alnwick is like going back into the old feudal times. The town still retains the moderate dimensions and the quiet air of one that has grown up under the protection of the castle, and of the great family of the castle. Other towns, that arose under the same circumstances, have caught the impulse of modern commerce and manufacture, and have grown into huge, bustling, and noisy cities, in which the old fortified walls and the old castle have either vanished, or have been swallowed up, and stand, as if in superannuated wonder, amid a race and a wilderness of buildings, with which they have nothing in common. When, however, you enter Alnwick, you still feel that you are entering a feudal place. It is as the abode of the Percys has presented itself to your imagination. It is still, quaint, gray, and old-worldish….
In fact, the whole situation is fine, without being highly romantic, and worthy of its superb old fabric. In the castle itself, without and within, I never saw one on English ground that more delighted me; because it more completely came up to the beau ideal of the feudal baronial mansion, and especially of that of the Percys, the great chieftains of the British Border--the heroes of Otterburn and Chevy Chase.
Nothing can be more striking than the effect at first entering within the walls from the town; when, through a dark gloomy gateway of considerable length and depth, the eye suddenly emerges into one of the most splendid scenes that can be imagined; and is presented at once with the great body of the inner castle, surrounded with fair semi-circular towers, finely swelling to the eye, and gaily adorned with pinnacles, battlements, etc. The impression is still further strengthened by the successive entrances into the second and third courts, through great massy towers, till you are landed in the inner court, in the very center of this great citadel.
An idea may be formed of the scale of this brave castle, when we state that it includes, within its outer walls, about five acres of ground; and that its walls are flanked with sixteen towers, which now afford a complete set of offices to the castle, and many of them retain not only their ancient names, but also their original uses.
The castle courts, except the center one, are beautifully carpeted with green turf, which gives them a very pleasant aspect. In the center of the second court is a lion with his paw on a ball, a copy of one of the lions of St. Mark at Venice….
The inner court is square, with the corners taken off; and on the wall opposite to the entrance are medallion portraits of the first Duke and Duchess. Near the gateway appear the old wheels and axle which worked the great well, over which is the figure of a pilgrim blessing the waters. Within the gateway you enter an octagon tower, where the old dungeon still remains in the floor, covered with its iron grate. It is eleven feet deep, by nine feet eight inches and a half square at the bottom. In the court are two other dungeons, now or formerly used for a force-pump to throw water up to the top of the castle; and one now not used at all--which could all be so closed down as to exclude the prisoners from both sound and light….
Having wandered thus around this noble pile, it is time to enter it. Of the interior, however, I shall not say much more than that it is at once a fitting modern residence for a nobleman of the high rank and ancient descent of the proprietor, and in admirable keeping with its exterior. The rooms are fitted up with light Gothic tracery on the walls, very chaste and elegant; and the colors are so delicate and subdued, that you are not offended with that feeling of over-fineness that is felt at Raby.
You ascend by a noble staircase, surrounded with armorial escutcheons instead of a cornice, to a suite of very spacious and handsome rooms, of which the principal are the saloon, dining-room, breakfast-room, library, and chapel. The ceilings are finely worked into compartments with escutcheons and pendants. The walls of the saloon are covered with crimson silk, sprigged with yellow flowers; those of the dining-room, with pale buff, and white moldings, rich tracery and elegant compartmented ceiling. In the center of some of the arches you see the crescent, the crest of the Percys.
On the whole, it is a noble and highly satisfactory mansion; but still it is when you get without again that you feel the real antiquity and proud dignity of the place. The fame of the Percy and the Douglas seems to be whispered by every wind that plays around those old towers.
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How Tall Are Bell Pepper Plants?
Bell pepper plants naturally take up quite a bit of room in the garden. Grown in the soil, these plants must be positioned with 4 to 5 feet of space on center between plants. But many factors that influence the size of these plants, and plants that have been stunted may be much shorter and less spread out.
Average Height
Bell pepper plants may be as short as 6 inches, or as tall as 3 feet tall. The spread of these plants may be anywhere from 1 to 3 feet. Grown in upper U.S. Department of Agriculture zones 8 through 11, bell pepper plants may be overwintered outdoors, where they become full and bush-like. However, injury from cold temperatures may occur when temperatures drop below 50 degrees Fahrenheit. Plants left outdoors in winter should survive, but may need to be covered to avoid injury. If you are growing your pepper plant in a pot, bringing the plant closer to shelter or placing it indoors for the evening will prevent this type of damage.
You may need to stake large plants with a heavy fruit load. This will prevent the stems from breaking and will prevent fruit sun scald. Use either wood or metal stakes for bell peppers. Avoid injuring your plant by inserting the stake when you plant the pepper and the roots are still tightly contained in a ball. You'll need tomato twine or nylon rope to tie the delicate stems to the stake. This will prevent stem injury from rubbing during high winds.
Factors Influencing Height
Bell peppers need heat, full sun and well-draining soil to grow and thrive. Growth may be stunted if any of these conditions are not met. In addition, bell peppers grown in containers may be naturally smaller than those grown in the ground.
Maximizing Growth and Production in the Ground
Amend clayey soils with organic matter to improve drainage, which can prevent growth stunting and root damage. In addition, the best place in the garden for your bell pepper plant is a spot in full sun. Areas near the southern exposure of a garden wall are a good choice for peppers, as garden walls retain and radiate heat into the evening. Fertilizers are useful for growing peppers, but nitrogen-rich fertilizers will promote vegetative growth at the expense of fruits. You can avoid this problem by amending the soil with a 5-10-10 fertilizer before planting. This type of fertilizer will contribute to the healthy growth of the roots.
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Using growing medium formulated for container gardening is crucial if you grow your pepper plant in a container. This soilless medium will drain more easily and freely than garden soil. Due to this efficient drainage, the soil may dry out more quickly. A layer of mulch spread over the top of the growing medium will keep the soil moist for longer. Self-watering containers will help keep the soil moist. These specialized containers feature a water reservoir in the bottom of the pot. Water is absorbed into the soil through tubes in the container that lead to the growing medium. These special pots will contribute to the health and growth of the plant.
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I am a big fan of those fitting room posts, so I thought I'd give it a go with my own maternity version in everyone's favorite store – Target.
First up: This teal off-the-shoulder dress. It's actually a juniors size, but it's a wrap dress, so I figured why not try it on and see how it looks! It actually fit pretty well for a wrap dress. Some of the ones I've tried on while pregnant don't go all the way around, but because this one has an elastic part on the back of the waist, it's stretchy enough to accommodate this 6 month belly. I didn't buy this one because I wasn't sure when/where I would wear it. Size verdict: Go up a size from your normal size (for example, I'm usually either a small or medium in Target Juniors, so I would definitely do the medium, maybe even the large).
This orange off-the-shoulder top and navy printed skirt were next. I was just wondering what the combo would look like on a pregnant lady, so into the fitting room I went. I ended up purchasing both pieces because I think it's a cute alternative to a dress. Both are regular women's sizes, but the elastic on the skirt's waistband, and the fact that it's a high-waist skirt, made it easy to get on and off. For sizing, you can stick with your regular sizes with these two!
These white over-the-belly maternity shorts were my favorite purchase of the day. I initially thought there was no way I'd find them comfortable, but they feel like stretch shorts and therefore deserve #praisehands. They're $25 so if I only wear them a few times, I won't feel bad for wasting money. As for sizing, go with your normal (pre-pregnancy) size for athletic pants in these – they're sized as small/medium/large.
And the green maternity top I tried on with the shorts will be perfect for the next trimester as I try to find more space for the belly. In the beginning I wanted nothing to do with tops that tied at the waist, which is basically every maternity item ever created, but now I'm okay with having a couple in my closet. For sizing, go with your normal (pre-pregnancy) size for tops sized small/medium/large.
The chambray shirtdress is cute and comfortable, but if you have a longer torso like me you probably need to go up a size. The small fit me everywhere but in the arm holes, so I ended up buying a medium. (I don't know if everyone with a longer torso has this, but I find that sometimes the arm holes aren't low enough for my body… almost like I want to just cut the fabric down a half inch or so.) There is also a sleeved version here (currently on clearance) and a darker sleeved version here (also on clearance). I have a chambray shirt dress with sleeves that I can still wear, so I decided to go for the sleeveless version for the summer.
What I have deemed the essential maternity dress is this short sleeve style. It's cute and shows off the bump without looking weird. It's also extremely comfortable, which is a big win any day! I didn't take this one home because I have a few dresses like it already, but I'd recommend this one if you're looking! It's a comfy summer fabric and the price is unbeatable!
This dress was a total dud and essentially everything I hate about maternity clothes. Too high up in the neck, weird length, made me feel totally frumpy. I wasn't even going to post this but here we are. Skip. Next!
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It is easy to dismiss Singapore as "Asia-lite" – a clean and efficient city, focused on business and not really of much interest to an adventurous traveller of the world. On one hand that is true – Singapore is a major regional business hub, you will find the regional headquarters of lots of global businesses...Read More →
Zurich is a surprising city. Before I'd been there, I had this preconception of it being quite old and stuffy – a banker's paradise. It really is so much more than that – definitely worth a visit. This is a small and compact city, so stay somewhere central and you will be able to walk...Read More →
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A federal judge rejected claims that Sony's "God of War" videogame infringes on a series of works from two Northern California screenwriters.
U.S. District Court Judge Marilyn Hall Patel, in a ruling issued on Tuesday, wrote that the similarities between screenplays written by Jonathan Bissoon-Dath and Jennifer B. Dath were merely "cliched and unprotected elements."
"No reasonable trier of fact could conclude that 'God of War' is substantially similar to any of plaintiff's works," she wrote.
The screenwriters filed suit against Sony Computer Entertainment and David Jaffe, the lead designer of the "God of War" videogame. Their five treatments and screenplays are set against the backdrop of the Spartan attack on Athens, while "God of War" had the same ancient Greece setting.
Among other things, the plaintiffs argued that certain scenes and dialogue were similar or identical, such as scenes depicting a gathering of the gods. But Patel said such instances are "stock elements that have been used in literary and artistic works for years, if not millennia." Moreover, she wrote, they "pointed to no persuasive similarity in dialogue or narration that would suggest actual copying."
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The Missing Piece in Ensuring Afghanistan's Peace
Much has gone right in Afghanistan. It's more secure, stable, and even optimistic. But there's one final tweak needed before America says goodbye.
So now the United States approaches the endgame — long predicted — in Afghanistan.
While it is tempting at times to simply walk away, doing so serves no geopolitically sensible purpose, and indeed may be snatching certain defeat from the jaws of a very possible success.
All is not lost: The United States still has a better-than-even chance of a successful outcome in Afghanistan. That is to say, Washington should execute its strategy and move forward — not take counsel of its fears and frustrations to abruptly depart.
The security situation and the upcoming elections have been a focus of the attendant political process. Both are, of course, important. But the real key to whether the United States succeeds will be the health of the Afghan economy and its long-term prospects. To be effective, Washington should emphasize developing growth and stability through private-public partnerships.
But what does success look like, exactly? Recognizable security throughout most of the populated areas of the country, with a low-grade insurgency rumbling around parts of the south and east; a roughly credible democratic political process, albeit with some corruption and malfeasance; a functioning economy with the possibility of improvement based on minerals; improved medical and educational benefits; and enhanced rights for women and children throughout most of the urban areas. Not perfect, but vastly better than a 14th-century existence under the Taliban.
Why are the odds better than even? Despite all the challenges, much has gone right in Afghanistan — in terms of security, politics, economics, and culture.
In the security sector, more than 50 nations have contributed troops over the past decade, and a principal focus has been the build-up of 350,000 Afghan police and security, which have the approval of more than 70 percent of the population according to recent surveys. Today, the Afghan National Security Forces are fully responsible for ensuring security throughout the nation's 34 provinces, conducting patrols along the borders, and flying their own aircraft. They are holding territories that the Taliban deeply desire to occupy, including the spiritual heartland of the Taliban movement in the south and the rugged mountainous east. Despite a certain amount of Sturm und Drang, the Baseline Security Agreement (BSA) will almost certainly be signed in the next few months (by Afghan President Hamid Karzai's successor), and somewhere between 10,000 and 15,000 troops from the NATO-led coalition will likely remain to train, mentor, and monitor the Afghan forces. In all, it is a sustainable and positive outcome, assuming that the 50 or so contributing nations continue the some $4 billion in annual funding — a bargain compared to keeping 150,000 allied troops there, which cost upward of $100 billion a year.
Politically, Afghanistan seems on track for a reasonably successful election in April. There is a vibrant campaign in progress: Many views and ethnicities are on offer among the candidates, security planning is moving apace, and Karzai seems content to hand power peacefully to an elected successor. While there will be both security and corruption challenges to overcome, at this stage most observers feel that Afghanistan will have the first handover between elected leaders in its history this spring.
In terms of culture, there is enormous progress since the Taliban days — 9 million children are in school (4 million of them girls); life expectancy is climbing rapidly; medical care is available to five times more people; 17 million cell phones; improved rights for women; and the sense of optimism among the population is higher in Afghanistan than in many Western countries (over the past few years, a stunning 57 percent of Afghans say their country is "headed in the right direction.")
But what about the economy?
While growth has been fairly high over the past decade, averaging over 8 percent annually and over 12 percent in 2012, it is largely dependent on outside economic aid. The narcotic sector is a big part of the overall economy (Afghanistan is the world's largest producer of poppy, opium, and heroin). Worst of all, it is the NATO-led coalition war machine that consumes huge amounts of good and services. As the NATO forces redeploy to their home nations, falling 90 percent from the peak in terms of boots on the ground, the economy will be hit with a body blow.
The good news is that longer-term prospects offer some hope, especially in extractive industries. The Ministry of Mines and Petroleum continues to work toward arrangements to reap the benefits of as much as $3 trillion worth of valuable minerals — iron, copper, nickel, cobalt, rare earths, and lithium among them. Oil and gas show promise. Entrepreneurship is strong and growing, and the geographic location of Afghanistan along the Silk Road makes it a prospect as an inter-modal transport and shipping hub. Agribusiness is expanding, as is the export of cashmere, carpets, and jewelry.
The key for the international community in the economic sphere is to work with the Afghans to formulate a "bridge strategy" to get the economy from its dependence on outside assistance and military activity to a more legitimate and sustainable underpinning. The keys to such an approach are:
1. Draft an agreed-upon plan between the Afghan government and the international community — the equivalent of the BSA in the economic sphere. This cannot be done on the military side, but should instead be led by the United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan and its special representative, Ambassador Jan Kubis.
2. Write a strategy to strengthen indigenous industries (agriculture, mining, hydrocarbons, construction) led by the development community, i.e. U.S. Agency for International Development and their counterparts.
3. Harness the power of private-public partnerships, using models like the U.S. Task Force for Business and Stability Operations, an innovative group resourced by the U.S. Department of Defense but driven by its connections to private sector actors. Bringing private sector analysts to Afghanistan and showing them the potential for growth (and profitability, of course), will create business opportunities.
4. Identify sources of investment in the Afghan diaspora and from capital flows willing to take a higher level of risk with the potential for higher return (venture capital, rich sovereign wealth funds, hydrocarbon and mining companies).
5. Energize a strategic communications plan to let people know of both the risk and the opportunity in Afghanistan. Like other parts of the world that emerged from turmoil (Colombia, the Balkans, to name a few), there are opportunities for those willing to accept the risk. More than 70 percent of Afghans feel their economic circumstances have improved over the past decade: Build on that narrative.
None of this will be easy, of course. The security, political, and cultural gains remain at risk. But the chances of bringing home a limited but sustainable level of stability to Afghanistan ultimately rest on how the economy unfolds — and that will take international, interagency, and private-public collaboration, as well as strategic communications writ large, to succeed.


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Calorie Requirements For Your Dog
Calorie Burning 101
In our last post, we discussed the kcal and the difference between basal/resting calories burned and activity fueled calorie burns. Today we will present the basic formulas that are used to estimate calorie requirements for your dog and provide some specific examples as reference points. These formulas and calculations are used as 'generic' estimates of required calories and are based on the Waltham Center for Pet Nutrition (WCPN) (http://www.waltham.com/) studies. In the SlimDoggy app, we actually use more precise estimates through time calibration and activity specific estimates (we will discuss these refinements in a future post).
According to the Waltham Research, the daily calorie requirement for an inactive adult dog is equal to:
CR (kcal/day) = 90 x Bodyweight.75
Where CR = daily calorie requirement for a dog
Bodyweight = weight in kgs ~ weight in lbs/2.2
For example, if you had an inactive dog weighing 50 lbs., their CR would be equal to:
90 * (50/2.2).75 = 937 calories per day to maintain their 50 lbs.
In practice, this means that you should feed this dog 937 calories worth of food each day in order to maintain a 50 lb. weight because they will burn about 937 calories per day.
For the adventurous types, the table below from WCPN shows the CR formulas for other categories. Note that the more active is the dog, the higher the multiplication factor is and the higher the CR is accordingly.
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|<3 hr /day
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|110 * Wtkg .75
|1-3 hr/ day
|Mainly High
|125 * Wtkg .75
|Highly Active
|3-6 hr/day
|175 * Wtkg .75
You may notice from the table that there are some fairly wide ranges for activity duration for a given category of pet and wonder how the CR would be the same. I did. Does a "typical" 50 lb. dog who exercises for 1 hour per day burn the same amount of calories a another typical dog of the same weight who exercises for 10 minutes per day? I think not. The SlimDoggy app makes appropriate adjustments!
Wait! What Weight?
No matter how active your dog is, their weight has a major influence on their daily calorie requirement. The bigger they are, the more calories they require. But what if you want to have your dog lose weight? It's actually pretty simple. A safe way to figure out how many calories to feed your dog to get them to their desired weight is to use their desired weight in the calorie calculation. An example will help.
Let's say that in our prior example (50 lb. inactive dog), the dog was in fact, 10 lbs. overweight and that they really should be 40 lbs. To get this dog safely to 40 lbs, we would calculate the CR for a 40 lb. dog which is equal to about 790 calories per day. This dog's owner should strive to feed the dog less than 790 calories per day and/or embark on an exercise schedule to increase the daily calorie burn. Notice that this is almost 150 calories per day less than our prior calculation. Feeding this dog 790 calories per day would gradually lower its weight at a rate of about 1 lb. per 3 weeks. Note-most vets recommend that weight loss is no faster than 2-3% per week maximum.
The same approach applies if you are trying to increase your dog's weight. We used the App to help our Rescue Maggie gain weight. She was a skinny, undernourished 59 lb. pity when we adopted her and using the Slimdoggy app, we safely built her weight up to 66 lbs and yes, it is all muscle!
Other Considerations
There are many other factors that can also impact the number of calories that your dog will burn each day. Below is a partial list (the App uses these to refine the calculations)
- Dogs age (puppies burn a ton of calories!)
- Pregnancy (so do soon-to-be-moms!)
- Certain medical conditions
- Surgeries
- Trauma
Sorry for all of the math today, but there was really no way around it. Let us know if you have any questions about it by posting in the comments or using our contact us form. We have a lot more to say about calories including the relative calorie burns for different types of activities.
Reference: Waltham Centre for Pet Nutrition. (1999). Canine life stages/lifestyles. Waltham Course on Dog and Cat Nutrition [On-line]. You can find this paper here: http://www.bearscampnewfs.com/health/Waltham%20Center/Canine%20Life%20Stages-Lifestyles.pdf
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How do I figure out the caloric needs of a 200 pound female Mastiff that needs to loose 30 pounds? I am fostering her and she is really obese. I am terrible at math.


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Bif Pow Oof: Ultra Street Fighter 4 Released
In my hazy role as news editor of Rock, Paper, Shotgun, I'd like for us to cover fighting games more. They're fascinating systems of intricate parts I broadly understand enough to mention but fumble horrible trying to execute. "Attack priority, yeah?" I offer. "Invincibility frames? Leave it out bruv!" See, I skipped fighting games as a littlun, as a crone really have the time to teach myself from scratch, and as a serious business professional don't want to fake it. Shame.
But here, as a token gesture, is word that Ultra Street Fighter IV has arrived on PC.
This third version of Street Fighter IV brings five 'new' fighters, four of whom last appeared in Street Fighter X Tekken. You'll find stick-swinging soldier man Rolento, capoeira fighter Elena, Final Fight veterans Hugo and Poison, and a character who's appeared before but is playable for the first time here, M. Bison's pal Decapre. Also new stage backgrounds, balance tweaks, new ways to punch men, and so on. You know the drill: it's a Street Fighter update.
Ultra arrives on PC a few months after its console release as Capcom had rushed that to make sure it was playable at this summer's Evo competition. An upgrade from Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition costs £11.99 or, if you don't have that, a bundle with the whole thing and oodles of costumes is £22.99. Reports say the netcode is a bit wonky right now, but Capcom are looking into it. And yes, it is free of Games for Windows Live.
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Robotic tracking systems for action cameras are nothing new. Useful and well designed, but nothing new. Similarly, it's getting harder and harder to find anybody who doesn't have a drone to strap their action cam into. But what if you could turn your drone into a fully robotic, flying cameraman?
That's the idea behind the gadget being built by Next Level Aerial Filming. You hook up your drone and your camera, boot up the app, and offer it a few parameters, like how tightly you want the shot framed. Then press a button, get on the bike or boat or board, and get to showing off.
While the team isn't offering up all the details, it's likely you'll be wearing a transponder that allows the camera to track your movements. Then it's just a matter of actually moving; the drone will follow you around as you do stunts and the like. Once you're finished, just land the little guy and pull the footage. Remember that most drones can't stay in the air for a long time, so you'll have to land it and recharge it. But on the other hand, being able to get the perfect aerial footage without having to worry about the pilot or something going wrong is worth it.
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The only thing that's not clear is how much this system will cost. We're assuming it'll be a little pricier than your average robotic cameraman; for one thing, you'll need a drone and a camera, and for another, there's going to be a lot of data for this little guy to try and handle when he takes off. But for those who need aerial footage, and those who just want aerial footage, it'll be a handy system to have set up for when there's not a drone pilot around.
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By Vaishnavi Vaidyanathan, International Business Times
A hang glider veteran died following a crash at an air show at a United States Air Force base in southwestern Idaho on Saturday. The accident took place during the Gunfighter Skies Air & Space Celebration at the Mountain Home Air Force Base.
The pilot, 62-year-old Dan Buchanan, was flown by air ambulance to a nearby local hospital but died of injuries later on, Mountain Home Air Force Base said, according to Idaho News.
Though Saturday's events were cancelled following the incident, the 366th Fighter Wing said the second day of the show will be as per schedule Sunday with first event starting at 10.30 a.m. (EDT).
"The air show will continue tomorrow in honor of our dear friend Dan Buchanan, and all the support he has provided for our air shows. There will be a tribute to Dan and an opportunity to memorialize him at the show," official account of the Mountain Home Air Force Base tweeted.
Sunday's show will be dedicated to the pilot who is a resident of Nevada. He was survived by a son and a brother.
Buchanan has been performing at the event for the past 36 years, Col. Joseph Kunkel said, calling him a hero and a friend.
"Mountain Home Air Force Base is continuing to respond to this and they way we're doing that is we're providing support to Dan his family his friends and frankly the community that was here at the airshow today," Kunkel added, stating he was proud of the first responders' efforts.
Tom Maxwell, a witness, said he saw the pilot making steep drops trying to get to the ground and then he went down.
"We didn't realize what was happening and then he went down, we continue to pray for him and his family," he said.
A team has been sent to investigate the crash by The National Transportation Safety Board.
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Title in English: Broccoli cultivar performance under organic and conventional management systems and implications for crop improvement
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To determine if present commercial broccoli cultivars meet the diverse needs of organic management systems, such as adaptation to low N input, mechanical weed management, and no chemical pesticide use, and to propose the selection environments for crop improvement for organic production, we compared horticultural trait performance of 23 broccoli cultivars (G) under two management (M) systems (organic and conventional) in two regions of the United States (Oregon and Maine), including spring and fall trials. In our trials, location and season had the largest effect on broccoli head weight, with Oregon outperforming Maine, and fall trials outperforming spring plantings. M main effects and G × M interactions were often small, but G × M × E (location and season) were large. Cultivars with both greater head weight and stability under conventional conditions generally had high head weight and stability under organic growing conditions, although there were exceptions in cultivar rank between management systems. Larger genotypic variances and somewhat increased error variances observed in organic compared with conventional management systems led to repeatability for head weight and other horticultural traits that were similar or even higher in organic compared with conventional conditions. The ratio of correlated response (predicting performance under organic conditions when evaluated in conventional conditions) to direct response (predicted performance in organic when evaluated under organic conditions) for all traits was close to but less than 1.0 with the exception of bead uniformity. This would imply that in most cases, direct selection in an organic environment could result in a more rapid genetic gain than indirect selection in a conventional environment.
Keywords in English: cultivars, organic crop management, broccoli, phytochemicals


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Quantel has announced that it will acquire fellow UK-based broadcast technology vendor Snell.
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Quantel CEO Ray Cross will lead the enlarged company.
Current Snell CEO Simon Derry will exit the business after acting helping to support the integration of the two companies for several months.
Paul Martin, Managing Director of the Snell TV Everywhere division and Rob Rowe, Managing Director of the Snell Live TV division will join the Quantel board, and Tim Banks, Snell Sales Director and Peter Fredericks, Snell Finance Director are also taking leading roles in the new combined organization.
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According to its website, Quantel "employs around 300 people, and operates sales and support subsidiaries in the USA, Canada, Latin America, Hong Kong, China, Japan, Korea, Australia and throughout mainland Europe."
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Broadcast Magazine (2002): Snell Secures £22m from Advent
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Variety Article (7-14-2000): Carlton sells tech arm Quantel to LDC for £51 million
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