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NGSS Standards
PS1.A: Structure and Properties of Matter
Students diagram and label an object's materials and its properties and how these support the purpose of the product.
2-PS1-3. Make observations to construct an evidence-based account of how an object made of a small set of pieces can be disassembled and made into a new object
Students gather data to discover how a few materials can be used to create a variety of objects.
Science Practices
- Developing and Using Models (SP 2)
Students create diagrams to identify the objects' materials and the properties of the materials that support the object's purpose.
- Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking (SP 5)
Students collaborate to create a class tally chart of materials used in their products to discover and develop an evidenced based conclusion about which material are used in most objects. Students use tally marks to create a bar graph to analyze and interpret their data.
- Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions (Sp 6)
Students review the materials' properties to construct an explanation why certain materials can be used in a variety of objects.
Cross-cutting Concepts - Appendix G
- Structure and Function (XC 6)
Students learn how the materials' properties supports the function of the object.
Lesson Preparation
Identify 12 or more objects for pairs of students to diagram. Possible objects to include:
markers, chair, ball, book, shoe, clothing, scissors, musical instrument, desk, stapler, tape dispenser, notebook, pencil box, crayon, water bottle, pen, backpack, pencil sharpener
I have selected objects that do not have internal pieces that students could not easily access in one lesson.
Decide how many students will work on a poster. My students will work in pairs.
Construction paper for the poster; one poster/team
Gather the objects students will use
Have extra pens in the designated colors available for teams to use
I post a question at the beginning of each science lesson. This provides an opportunity for students to consider today's topic before the lesson has officially begun. I have established this routine with the kiddos to keep transition time short and effective and redirect student's attention back to content while allowing time for focused peer interaction.
Question for the Day: Look around our classroom, what materials do you think are used the most to make the products that you see?
I show the definition for product and review the term before students turn and talk.
Product - something that is made or grown to be used and/or sold.
Students read the question and discuss their ideas with their should partner. After partners have shared, they turn to face me.
I call volunteers to share their ideas, and write their answers on the board.
"This is your hypothesis to this question. What do scientists do to find out if their hypothesis is correct? Right! We test and make observations!"
"Please return to your seats and I will explain how we will gather data to help us prove or disprove our hypothesis."
"I have made a list of products that we use everyday. You will work with a partner to 'decompose a product' to identify its materials. After your product diagrams are complete, we will use your diagram data to create a bar graph to learn which material is used most often."
Providing my students with an overview of the lesson, helps them make connections with their learning experience and goals of the lesson.
I show my students the pencil poster we made in a previous lesson on materials. I explain that they will be making a similar poster for a product they choose.
I teach 2 classes. One of my classes did the 'Ball Point Pen' Lesson which would also help scaffold the experience for this lesson.
"Let's review the parts of the poster so you will know what to include on your poster:
- There is a drawing of the product
- Materials used for the product are labeled
- Properties of the materials are labeled in another color
- There is an explanation how the materials' properties help the product do its job
- Properties and materials are written in different colors
As the parts of the poster are noted, I project a checklist for students to reference as they work on their product diagram.
With the students, the material and property colors that they will use on their poster are selected. I make a key to remind the students of their color choices for material and property labels.
Students write with a pencil to explain how the property helps the the material support the purpose of the product.
Students select the product that they want to 'decompose'. They will work in pairs to create their product diagram.
I direct students to sit with their partner at the desks. Then one student from each pair picks up the product that they will diagram.
I have selected items that are familiar to the students and do not have lots of internal parts which students cannot observe or identify.
After students have had a couple of minutes to discuss and handle their product, I signal their attention. With student input we develop a word bank for materials and properties. The word bank is posted on the board as a reference as students begin to work on their posters.
I will use the 'material word bank column' later in the lesson when students tally the materials used in their product.
I pass out the poster paper and check that each group has the designated colored pens to label materials and properties. I check in with the groups and help them identify the different materials and properties and how the parts help the system of the product.
When teams finish their posters, I direct them to tally mark the materials used in their product on the material column of the word bank.
I signal students to meet me on the rug to review the tally marks.
"Let's total the tally marks to discover which materials are used in most of the products we looked at."
After the tally marks are counted, the class sorts the materials from greatest to least occurring materials.
I use the observation results to start a discussion on the application of the top used material.
"What can we say about our products?" Right, most products have --------- material. What does this tell us about this material? Yes, it can be used for lots of different products.
Why do you think it used in most products? Think about the properties of this material that may make it useful for the other products."
I list their ideas on the board, with the students we discuss the merits of each idea. I circle the ones that can be referenced back to the material properties. I save the data and student ideas. Later this week students will use this information to create a bar graph and conclusion.
If time I lead a discussion on the resources used to produce this material and the impact it has on the Earth.
I congratulate the students on their participation, remind them to write their name on their poster and place them on the back table. I will hang their work in the classroom.

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First Christmas card for today (I'm not sure yet if there will be more) is this card I made for three different challenges:
CASology week 176: Tree
CAS Colours & Sketches #154: Choose a past 2015 sketch and make it Christmassy (I chose sketch #113)
The Paper Players #275: A Color Challenge.
And yes, in Sweden we celebrate Christmas on the 24th.
Lovely card. And, I did not know that Sweden celebrated Christmas on another day. Merry Christmas and thanks so much for playing along at CASology this week.
I love the tree background. Thank you for sharing with us at CASology this week!
What a lovely card, and you've combined challenges perfectly! I love the bit of red glitter, too. Thanks so much for joining us this week at The Paper Players!
What a lovely card…very simple but your elements really pop! Love the little git of glitter, especially on the stars! So happy you played with my challenge this week!
Gorgeous! Love those swirly trees. thanks for joining in the CC&S Christmas sketch challenge.
Very festive! I like the different textures of the green cardstock and the glittered lines in the banner. Great job combining the different challenges! Thanks so much for making CC&S one of them. 🙂


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Author: Alex Chua
Pig out this Chinese New Year at Ginger, Park Royal on Beach Road as Executive Chef Vincent Aw serves up extensive auspicious culinary delights. The all-day dining restaurant features an array of delicious dishes up for kiap-ping like Braised Pig Ear Terrine with Chinese Herbs at the Salad station, Baby Lobster with Abalone Sauce, Abalone Fried Rice, and Braised Dried Oyster with Sea Moss on the Hot Food isle. What is special is the D.I.Y Yu Sheng station. Perhaps the first in Singapore, you can create your own Prosperity Yu Sheng at the Yu Sheng counter to toss up a good fortune.
Here are a few dishes that I've kiap-ed (or grabbed) and enjoyed thoroughly, so if you're here for the CNY buffet you can go straight to hog these yummies out.
As an unrepentant carnivore more often than not I will just fly towards the meat station, but the pot of Broccoli with Dried Oyster is just visually desirable. The green broccoli possessed that nice crunch, soaked in a rich oyster broth to give off that distinct umami taste; very flavorful and back of my mind patting myself for being a healthy picker for a change.
Priding themselves on serving consistently good quality crabs throughout the year, this Baby Lobster with Rich Abalone Broth is a dish I will indulge over again and again. Cooked a la minute at the live station, the lobster meat is fresh with a good springy bite, and pretty easy to peel off the fresh from the shell. Just remember to drink it hot as the taste will be slightly off when it's cold.
Other Chinese favorites I raved includes the very tender, very juicy Braised Pig Trotters, Abalone Fried Rice (wok-hei power strong in this one), as well as the Pineapple Salad with Sliced Bak Kwa and Braised Pig Ear Terrine with Chinese Herbs at the Salad station.
Besides these yummy CNY specials, also available at the hot isle are the surefire hit Baked Salmon topped with deep-fried fish skin – a good source of protein and omega 3 which I have many helpings.
Chinese New Year is never complete without stuffing yourself aplenty with decadent treats and delicacies. Make Ginger the go-to restaurant for your CNY indulgence and book today!
Park Royal on Beach Road – Ginger Resataurant
7500 Beach Rd, Singapore 199591
Available from 21 January to 19 February 2019
Lunch: 12pm to 2.30pm, from $48 – $68 (for adults) | from $22 – $34 (for child)
Dinner: 6pm to 10pm, from $68 – $108 (for adults) | from $34 – $54 (for child)
Dining reservations at Ginger can be made at firstname.lastname@example.com or call at +65 6505 5710
Celebrate Chinese New Year at ParkRoyal on Beach Road
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Andrew is a Senior Lecturer and Year 1 Contextual and Theoretical Studies Coordinator linked to the Graphic Design Communication Programme at London College of Communication.
Andrew holds a PGCE with Distinction (University of Essex, 2013), an MA with Distinction in Design Writing Criticism (London College of Communication, 2010) and a First Class BA (Hons) in Visual Communication Design (Ravensbourne, 1995).
Andrew has seven years teaching experience as an Associate Lecturer in four art and design Institutions. Since 2015 Andrew has taught exclusively at LCC where he combines his passion for graphic design practice, theory and writing.
Andrew worked as a graphic designer at CDT Design in the mid 1990s, on projects for Benenden School, Design Council, The Earth Centre, Royal National Theatre, Our Price Music, South Bank Centre and Volkswagen UK.
At Lloyd Northover Andrew worked on projects for BNFL, UBS, The Millennium Commission and SITA – an aerospace information technology specialist. As a founding partner in Unleaded Design, Andrew worked for art galleries, local councils and publishers and for many years with the Royal Society of Arts on the annual Student Design Awards.
Andrew is currently co-editing a book about the Graphic Design School at Ravensbourne 1963–present. His research interests are in authorship, graphic design history and theory, modernist graphic design and architecture and queer theory. He defines himself as a 'radical modernist' a position created by the late great American designer Dan Friedman.
Andrew is the External Examiner for Theory modules in the BA (Hons) Graphic Communication Design at University of Westminster.
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In India, retro ethnic apparels can be seen in such a wide spectrum that will make one hard to decide what to choose and what to wear. Women's wears such as sarees, suits, salwars, kurtis, lehengas are complete conventional items and worn with much lush and a wide array of traditional jewellery and accessories. Especially, designer sarees are stacked for special occasions only because they are little bit hard to drape and allegedly lag behind to provide freedom of movement to the wearer. But this is not the real story. Women love to wear them in their daily routine as well and in a state like West Bengal 95% of women mass pre-dominantly wear traditional sarees.
Nowadays, Bollywood and Hollywood are also inspiring the youth to wear this type of Indian wears. Foreign celebrities such as Naomi Campbell, Halle Berry and many more have recently adorned this piece of beauty in a different way and thus people attached with the roots got a fresh reason to change their way of draping saree style in order to get a complete new look. A retro feel can be bagged during cultural occasions such as wedding, festival times and etc. These classics are then typically complemented with puffed sleeved blouses, tube top blouses or full sleeved ones. The combination of modern and classical has made it perfect to be worn anytime. The vintage style is the most sought by every stylish woman.
Vintage Sarees At Glance
Classic style brings out of trend designs which sometime gets high demand by fashionistas. The plain and matte colour hues and subtleness even in designer clothes can be vehemently seen on these attires. Puffed up blouses such as worn with Bengali style sarees have seen such a tremendous evolution with bell sleeves, Bardot sleeves and many more.
Work Pattern & Colours Are Important
Wide border work with chic Indian colours such as fuchsia, hot red, maroon, golden and etc. are used in them. The modern year has seen a dramatic change in the work patterns and colour hues of these sarees. With long pallus and golden paisley works, these drapes showcase their best of ethnic fashion fad. These sarees are typically worn with matching border hues blouses. For instance, if the work pattern of your saree has red and golden work then you can wear both of these colour blouses.
Jewellery is an intricate part of these attires and the antique gold jewel is taken as a compulsion to reflect the Indian form. Sita haar, choker necklace, shoulder harness, hand harness are some of the Indian traditional jewellery that every type of woman just to wear. Before finalising any type of jewellery, one needs to settle down which type of online saree they are going to buy. The patterns on them will help you to choose a perfect accessory.
Different Blouse Pattern
If we could have gone to some old dates, we would have found that women were wearing tube blouses more often as they are now thought as ultra-modern or too much bold. Baajuband or shoulder band were adorned as a casual-wear jewel as nowadays people wear rings or neckpiece. Draping patterns were easier in those days and they take it as a typical casual wear. Frilled blouses, lace work blouses, boat neck blouses are some of the retro favourites.
Contemporary Sarees At Glance
Contemporary is a word which is mistaken with the words – modern and urban. A world where urban mass is urging for the new designs and lifestyle that has never been tried is known as contemporary. It is actually your lifestyle standard which defines your contemporary taste. And sarees never lose the race in this competition. They attract most of the envious glances from the surroundings. Meet contemporary best sarees here for your fashion demanding occasions and events. So, what are the basic elements which make these staples important and eye catching?
Unique & Stand Apart Designs
From amazing paisleys to catchy geometric prints, all are present in the wide array of online and offline markets. And named and famed designers such as Sabyasachi, Gaurang, Ritu Beri, Manish Malhotra do their best to propagate the good name of these designer sarees. Half and half saree designs, Embellishment with pearls, studs, diamonds, golden zari work make these pieces tremendously beautiful. High low designs are now also available in these traditional drapes. And then it all depends on your draping styles which pitch up the glow.
Unparallel Draping Styles & Cuts
There are some styles which hit the list of saree draping this year:
Pant style saree – Instead of petticoat skirt, here, you need to pull on any tight fitting pants or leggings.
Dhoti style saree – Drape the saree like a dhoti and for this, you can also try pants as petticoats.
Cape style saree – Instead of any regular blouse, these sarees get combined with a cape over the blouse. But it is not at all compulsory to adore it with a blouse; you can also tailor them as a blouse and with flutter sleeves.
Never Tried Hues
Experimental hues are what famous in this category. Turquoise, golden, teal, steel grey, copper, silver, coral, pastel hues are some of the new Gen's favourite. From calligraphic sarees to abstract printed sarees, these numbers get a great boost with these special features.


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I'm obsessed with my iPhone, especially since treating myself to an iPhone 6 aka most beautiful phone everrrrrr so thought I would round up a couple of my favourite apps, I love reading posts like this cos I'm way nosey and am always on the hunt for new apps!
Facebook, Twitter & Instagram: Obviously I love all the main social apps, facebook I use mainly for personal use and I don't even use it that much either. Twitter and instagram are my fave and I love nothing more than scrolling through them when I have a spare 2 mins. You can follow me on twitter here and instagram here, yes shameless plug.
Timehop: I'm so happy that I finally downloaded this as I love seeing what I got up to in previous years, although it does make me sad that this time last year I was in Sydney, Australia WAH WAH :(
Bloglovin': Another social media one but Bloglovin' is seriously the easiest way to catch up on all my daily reads, you can follow me here, oh look another shameless plug!
Ebay: I've been selling a few bit on ebay recently and have actually been doing alright, it's mainly my mums old clothes that sell and not mine, (does anyone else find that?) but every little help and I do love it when my phone goes mad at the last couple of minutes!
VSCOcam: I use this to edit all my photos before popping them on instagram as I find that the effects are generally better and much crisper plus there are so many to choose from.
Instasize: Such a handy app for posting full length photos on instagram, (why does it always cut your feet off on the app?) with this one you are able to post straight to instagram too and it's one of my most used apps.
Frametastic: Another handy app for making collages which I absolutely love.
iTube: I discovered this app whilst travelling and it was perfect when my iPod died when I was out there. You are able to stream music videos straight from Youtube and then are able to save them in a playlist so you can then view the videos when you're not on 3G or wifi, pretty awesome.
Bubble Witch 2: My little guilty pleasure game! It's a game where you burst all the bubbles to save ghosts etc, very fun but equally addictive!
Bingo: Another guilty pleasure, Bingo is too much fun and I can spend hours on it, too many hours...


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The Normal Capacity Vs. Expected Capacity in Cost Accounting
Capacity refers to the ability of a company to produce a product, or provide a service, within a given period. It is defined by constraints such as space, labor, materials, equipment and access to capital. Generally expressed in terms that are most appropriate for the business -- per night for a hotel, per day for a resort stay or per hour for a therapist -- the difference between normal and expected capacity is slight yet meaningful.
Capacity Is Defined by Restraints
In cost accounting, normal capacity is similar to expected capacity, except expected capacity is based on actual inputs and is short term in nature. That is, expected capacity incorporates the most recent data and information about the more recent capacity levels in terms of demand. To a certain extent, expected capacity is a more recent, updated version of normal capacity. To better understand the difference between the two, it helps to know other ways capacity is classified.
Ideal Capacity
Ideal is a word that usually describes the best situation. Ideal capacity is when the volume of activity is at its peak performance, with no allowance for operational inefficiency. This is also referred to as theoretical capacity or maximum capacity and is often used as the upper limit for determining capacity limitations. Normal capacity and expected capacity will always be lower than ideal capacity.
Practical Capacity
Practical capacity is the level of capacity a business can operate at that allows for a certain amount of inefficiency, also known as human error or "Murphy's law." Like ideal capacity, it is based on theory, not actual demand. Losses due to weather, holidays, repairs and breakdowns are taken into consideration. Practical capacity is always lower than maximum or ideal capacity. It may be lower or higher than normal or expected capacity depending on the nature of the business.
Normal and Operating Capacity
Normal capacity has many similarities with practical capacity, which is based on a theory of operational efficiency. Normal capacity is driven by business demand, not by maximum capacity. It takes the seasonal and cyclical demand cycle into consideration and is usually estimated over a two- to three-year period. Operating capacity is similar to normal capacity except it is calculated over a daily, monthly or quarterly period.
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Neteisėtas praturtėjimas: lūkesčiai ir realijos
Šalčius, Marijus
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In 2010, Lithuania criminal legislation was truly "rich". Criminal Code of the Republic of Lithuania in 2010 has been amended nine times. These changes culminated the Criminal Code amendment, which established new criminal law institute - extended confiscation of property, and criminalized a new offense - illicit enrichment. Illicit enrichment was established in the article 1891 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Lithuania. The article provides for that a person who possesses property of value of more than 65000 Litas knowing that this property could not be acquired by lawful income, should be punished with a fine, arrest or deprivation of liberty up to four years. According to the novelty, a person is considered as committing a crime if he cannot justify the lawfulness of the acquisition of the property he possesses. In addition the law requires that a person knows that their property cannot be acquired by lawful means. The main aim of this amendment was to prevent corruption, economical, financial and other acquisitive crimes and to make these offenses less attractive for the offenders. Immediately after the entry into force of the mentioned Law it received a lot of critic. The main arguments of the critics were that the norm of illicit enrichment violates the principle of the presumption of innocence and the principle of the proportionality. Also some scientists and practices blamed the amendment for its uncertainty. However not all arguments of the critics are well-grounded. To authors mind, suspects have the same rights to testify as in all other offenses. In such cases first of all the law enforcement authorities collect all evidence about the person's legal incomes, property and only later expresses suspicion. So in such situation the suspects right to decide what kind of defense to choose, active or passive. But the author agrees that the norm of the illicit enrichment is not as comprehensible as it should be. From the Criminal Code amendment came into force was started 126 pre-trail investigations. Usually pre-trail investigations were started upon information from State Tax Inspectorate. But quite usual signs of the illicit enrichment were detected investigating other offenses, such us smuggling, drug trafficking, cars theft and others. It remains to regret that only 15 cases already reached the court. And today we have only two outcomes of the proceedings of the illicit enrichment. 20 pre-trail investigations were terminated, other investigation are still in process. To authors mind, there are some main reasons why the norm of illicit enrichment is still inefficient. First of all, the investigation of this crime is quite difficult; investigators have to collect information about the suspect's property, legal incomes and so on. And the second and the main reason is that there is no single practice of investigation of such crimes in Lithuania. Only when the courts will form single practice of application of the norm of illicit enrichment, this norm will reach its purposes.
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Models, tracks, sound, music and more for STK.
Moderator: STK Moderators
kimden {l Wrote}:Seems to work both alone and with a spectator now!
kimden {l Wrote}:I tried to pick a prize on a reverse race, didn't work (the path is blocked). Probably it's intended?
Ludsky {l Wrote}:Good track but possible to add a light in the tunnel, we can't see
tempAnon093 {l Wrote}:[...]This is what it looks like without the darkness.
eltomito {l Wrote}:tempAnon093 {l Wrote}:[...]This is what it looks like without the darkness.
Hey! I never saw that orange fence while playing that track! Is it supposed to be there?
I tried the most recent (January 8) version of the track in git STK. Not there. I played it on Android in STK 1.1 and the latest beta. Not there. How come?
Ludsky {l Wrote}:Ok, i understand. Thanks you for your answer and good job
kimden {l Wrote}:Some players say that the track music cannot be disabled in settings (there are players who play without/with other music). Didn't check though if the behaviour with "/music 0" and turning off music from the settings differ.
Andet {l Wrote}:Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but isn't that just because the music is actually a sound effect?
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2018 National Nutrition Day
"Kue Pais is considered healthy snack because it is clean-the banana leaves are cleaned first before use, because it contains carbohydrate from flour, vitamin from banana and fat from coconut oil", said a woman who sells Kue Pais (banana snack) in the event she joined, the campaign for "Nutrition for Achievement", on Sahabat Anak Day 2016 in Bogor. The woman can simply describe the nutrient content of her snack after she got the knowledge on healthy food's 4B (Bergizi (Nutritious), Berimbang (Balanced), Beragam (Diverse), and Bersih (Clean) from Sahabat Anak's volunteer.
The problem of children's nutrition fulfillment in marginalized family is often connected to the community's knowledge and awareness limit on the important of nutrition. In fact, in several studies result presented by Banerjee & Duflo (2011) in Poor Economics, they found that the biggest problem lies not in the rarity of food but on the food selection. Families in low socio-economic level tend to choose food only from their good taste, not from the nutrients contained in them. In addition to that, most choose to spend money they have not for food but for other interests such as cigarettes, alcohol, or electronics goods that they feel more important to raise their self-esteem.
The condition suggests that proper formation of lifestyles and daily decision making in marginalized families, including the selection of nutritious foods, becomes an important aspect for continual intervention. Therefore, to commemorate the 2018 National Nutrition Day, Sahabat Anak would like remind Indonesian families on healthy food's 4B (Nutritious, Balanced, Diverse and Clean). With healthy food's 4B, Indonesian children will grow healthy so they can reach optimal achievement for the progress of our nation and country, Indonesia. Happy National Nutrition Day!
"My family always teaches me 4B
Nutritious, varied, balanced and also clean
Come on friends, let's apply 4B life
So our body is clean and healthy always, Hey!"
-4B song lyrics excerpt-
(Hanna Tresya – Sahabat Anak Committee)
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Gamers everywhere can finally rejoice with a well earned victory! Well, a small victory, but a victory all the same.
A newspaper known as the Daily Star published an entirely ficticious story about Rockstar developing a new Grand Theft Auto game revolving around a character named Rothbury [a nonfictional gunman] and claimed it would be based on the Northumberland shootings in Northern England. Of course, all of this was completely fictional, and Rockstar had never made such plans before.
The icing on the cake is when Daily Star went to still grieving family members and interviewed them about the new title, brining up tides of emotional scares and despair all for the sake of publicity and increased subscriptions.
Naturally, Daily Star never contacted Rockstar in the least to confirm/deny any of these allegations.
As such, Rockstar sued and consequently won its lawsuit against Daily Star, received damages and forced them to pay Rockstar's substantial legal fees. While an amount was undisclosed, you KNOW it had to be big.
I cannot believe the NERVE of these people to make something completely up, involve sad and grieving families AND be a professional news center. At least the games industry finally struck a victory over the slanderous media!
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A countless number of nutrients and other components combine to make breast milk so healthful for babies. But scientists working decades ago zeroed in on two enzymes. Called lysozyme and lactoferrin, both contribute to the antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory powers of human milk. And both are far more abundant in human milk than in the milk of other animals.
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Some 20 years ago, researchers managed to isolate the genes that make these enzymes. Then, they began putting the genes into ruminants, with the goal of getting the animals to produce enzyme-enhanced milk.
Among other advances, scientists have already engineered cows that secrete extra lactoferrin into their milk. And Davis' group has developed transgenic goats that have 270 times more lysozyme in their milk than normal. His team has also fed their transgenic goat milk to young pigs -- equivalent in age to human preschoolers -- and documented improved gastrointestinal health as a result.
For the new study, Ning Li, of China Agricultural University in Beijing, and colleagues used standard genetic cloning techniques. They began with easy-to-acquire human genes that both make lysozyme and regulate its expression. They put those genes into cow cells, and they created embryos that contained those genes in their mammary glands.
The study yielded 17 healthy adult cattle that secreted 25 times more lysozyme into their milk than normal cows do, the researchers reported in the journal PLoS One.
"To our knowledge, this is the first study that resulted in the production of a herd of cloned transgenic cattle that expressed" the lysozyme gene in their milk, the researchers wrote. "It is fulfilled the conception of humanizing the bovine milk."
Five million children contract debilitating diarrhea around the world each year, Murray said, and half of those die from dehydration and related problems. With its gut-focused benefits, transgenic milk might eventually be able to save many of those children. And cows offer a promising factory because they produce such large quantities of milk.
The milk would likely be safe, Murray added. Even with its elevated enzyme levels, two glasses of even the most enhanced transgenic milk still contains far less lysozyme than we swallow in our saliva every day.
Before the milk will ever make it to market, though, researchers will need to conduct clinical studies in animals and people to prove its safety and its ability to heal the gut. For now, the research still has a long way to go, said Steven Miles, professor of medicine and bioethicist at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
"This is very much a halfway technology," Miles said. "Human milk contains an enormous number of proteins that are beneficial. To highlight one particular protein -- in this case the lysozyme as justifying any kind of substitution of cow's milk for human milk would be a pretty reckless thing to do."
While transgenic technologies hold plenty of promise, he added, there are also risks that need to be considered. And in this case of milk, he thinks nature still has a leg up on genetic engineering.
"They're not producing human milk, they're producing a product that is inferior to human milk," Miles said.
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(For this month's Slice of Life Challenge with Two Writing Teachers, I am aiming to do Six Word Slices most days, with some extended slices on other days.)
Context: One of the important skills for Slice of Life writing, I have found, is the ability to respectfully eavesdrop on the conversations of others.
I was in the small local library last night, picking up some books, when the librarian behind counter — an elderly librarian with a grumpy exterior but an active mind, who often engages me in discussions about the books I have chosen, particularly graphic novels — began a conversation with the man in front of me about the book he had pulled from the shelves. It was about Geology and stories, and she went into a story of her own about studying at Yale and taking a Geology course that interested her, and who was this author, and then proceeded to flip through the book, reading the biography and noting that she teaches at nearby Mount Holyoke College.
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[Editor's Note: The May/June issue of The Absolute Sound, which mails to subscribers on March 30, includes a comprehensive evaluation of Master Quality Authenticated (MQA), a new digital technology that delivers better-than-high-resolution sound quality at a bit rate comparable to that of CD. My evaluation was informed by listening to hundreds of MQA-encoded tracks, decoded by the Meridian 808v6 CD player/DAC, over several weeks in my own reference system.
As part of that package of MQA coverage, which includes an explanation of the technology, FAQ about MQA, an examination of the claim that MQA can sound better than the original master, and reviews of the first MQA-capable decoders (the Meridian 808v6 CD player/DAC and Meridian Explorer2 DAC), I included the following editorial, entitled "MQA: The View From 30,000 Feet."]
In this issue's cover story I explain some of the technology behind Master Quality Authenticated (MQA) and describe how it sounds. But I'd like to use this space to step back and take a larger view of the history of digitally recorded music, audio technology, and how MQA fits into that historical context.
To recap, MQA is a technology that simultaneously improves digital sound quality while dramatically lowering the bit-rate. It's an encode-decode system, meaning that for maximum fidelity the music must be encoded with MQA, and played back through a device with MQA decoding. MQA is, however, backward compatible with all existing distribution channels and playback hardware. If you don't have an MQA decoder, you get slightly-better-than-CD sound. If you have an MQA DAC, the file "unfolds" into the high-resolution signal.
It's not quite accurate to call MQA a "technology" because it's more than just a set of hardware and software techniques. Rather, MQA is a nearly-ground-up rethinking of how to best deliver to the listener as close a facsimile as possible of the original musical event. MQA starts with the analog signal in the studio and ends with the analog signal on playback. It ties together every element in that chain into essentially a single analog-to-analog system.
Let's look at a brief history of digital audio and how that development path led us to the current state of affairs. In the late 1970s, the first digital recorders were commercially introduced, and became ubiquitous a decade later. These machines, based on pulse-code modulation and operating at 44.1kHz or 48kHz sampling and 16-bit quantization, were quite crude by today's standards. Nonetheless, digital recorders quickly replaced analog tape machines in the studio. The compact disc, with its 44.1kHz sample rate and 16-bit word length, became the standard for distributing digital audio to consumers. As we all know, the CD took over the world beginning in the mid-1980s.
This switch from purely analog technology to digital had its advantages, but also some significant drawbacks. Once the signal was in the digital domain it could be copied, transmitted, and manipulated with no loss of sound quality. But the penalty for that convenience and power was paid at the interfaces between the analog and digital worlds, specifically the analog-to-digital converter used to make the recording and the digital-to-analog converter that transformed a series of numbers back into music. These two ends of the chain exacted a significant sonic penalty, in part because of the steep low-pass filters required to make digital audio work. The design of these filters came out of the sampling theory first developed in 1927 by Harry Nyquist and advanced in the 1940s by Claude Shannon.
Working within the constraints of the so-called "Nyquist-Shannon" sampling criterion, digital audio improved over the past 30 years with higher sampling rates, greater bit depth, lower jitter, and myriad other techniques that realized significantly better sound. In the mid-1990s, recording professionals began using 96kHz/24-bit recorders, which allowed them to make better sounding 44.1kHz/16-bit compact discs. Nonetheless, the consumer experience was limited to 44.1kHz/16-bit quality. In the late-1990s, two attempts to move beyond the CD, Super Audio Compact Disc (SACD) and DVD-Audio, essentially failed in the wider marketplace (DVD-Audio spectacularly so). More recently, the music-only version of Blu-ray Disc has been met with a tepid response.
And then came the Internet, and with it the ability to distribute digitally encoded music without the need for physical formats. It's impossible to overstate the significance of this development. Physical formats are massively difficult to develop and launch, technically, politically, and commercially. But the Internet allowed music labels (the "content providers" in industry parlance) to distribute high-bit- rate music to consumers in the form of downloads without the constraints imposed by a new physical format.
That development was both a blessing and a curse. The blessing was that here was a cheap and easy way to deliver to consumers the best-available representation of a recording. The curse was that the record companies were delivering to consumers the best-available representation of a recording—a recording that could easily be copied, shared, and even pirated for profit. The record labels' opening of their vaults by selling high-bit-rate downloads would be tantamount to throwing open the doors to an unguarded shopping mall. Once their catalogs were out in the world, the record companies would have nothing left to sell.


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Thought you may find this interesting BM, a Devon photographer rigged a quadcopter to film over Pripyat to see the changes since the evacuation.Drone in Pripyat (Chernobyl)http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2851668/A-drone-s-eye-view-CHERNOBYL-Eerie-footage-reveals-city-left-decay-devastating-nuclear-disaster.html
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Quote from: Barman on November 28, 2014, 11:32:37 AMSpare parts have arrived! Now all we need is a nuclear disaster zone for you to film in. Can't be so hard to arrange
Have you ordered extra spares in advance this time?
What's the name of the manufacturer, at this rate it may be worth me buying shares.
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*UPDATE IN BOLD BELOW – Cold easterlies now much more likely
December has brought us a curious and entertaining mixture. The jet stream fluctuated in strength and position, and in concert with this, we've seen an array of weather – from mild and damp, through cold and frosty and, occasionally and unexpectedly for some, deep, crisp and even.
But our cold snaps have paled into insignificance compared with the bitter weather afflicting parts of North America in recent days. Is this a portent of what might be coming our way? Well no, not really. If only it was that simple. As I've written here, American weather rarely reaches us in the same guise as it left the States.
Instead, the intense cold air across the 'Pond' will help to strengthen the jet stream. A strong jet stream helps generate low pressure systems and these look set to propel spells of wet and windy weather in our direction.
Wild West Winds
As I look at the charts in front of me, they suggest that every day will bring a different complexion to our weather. A series of low pressure systems will be hurtling towards us across the Atlantic, each bringing a spell of wet and windy weather. In between, there will be some drier and brighter interludes.
Very small changes in the strength and position of the jet stream will have a big impact on exactly where and when these low pressure systems will spin up – something the computer forecast models often struggle with. So their timing will be very difficult to nail down until we can see the whites of their eyes.
But some of these systems could be powerful enough to bring some significant impacts from both wind and rain – perhaps even another named Storm?
With westerly winds dominating, temperatures shouldn't fluctuate too far from normal. Southern areas of the UK will tend to be mildest. Further north, brief injections of colder air may bring some transient snowfall, especially to the hills.
However, there are hints that by the end of the week the jet stream will develop more of a 'kink'. Warm air sent north to Greenland may open the door for a burst of arctic air to surge down across the UK. I expect a colder weekend, with frost and wintry showers. The question is "What happens next"?
… will next weekend's cold snap be just a brief encounter?
To block or not to block?
Over the last few days the the majority of computer forecasts have drifted towards a much more 'blocked' pattern in the atmosphere. As the jet stream becomes increasingly contorted, a cold easterly will have developed by the start of the week.
The air, though not severely cold, will be chilly enough for wintry showers, especially across central and eastern areas of the UK.
This cold, blocked pattern, looks like persisting well into the week. As Atlantic fronts run into the cold air and try to dislodge the block, so some disruptive snow is possible. But there is still huge uncertainty about the timing of this – if indeed it happens at all.
Top to bottom westerlies?
Most longer term computer output currently indicates a 'syncing in' of strong stratospheric westerly winds around the northern hemisphere with the jet stream further down the atmosphere. A strong westerly jet stream would in turn deliver weather systems from the Atlantic, turning us milder, but often quite wet and windy.
But will next weekend's cold snap be just a brief encounter? Or will an atmospheric 'block' change the dynamics yet again.
As I tweeted a few days ago, we've seen some twists and turns in December, which the computer models really didn't 'know about' that well in advance. So their 'confidence' through January should be treated with a degree of caution. It's proving to be an intriguing winter.


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Featured news this month includes Cathay Pacific reopening their lounges at London Heathrow, Qantas' new VR app, Supersonic Jets backed by Richard Branson and more.
The Travel Stories that captured our attention this month.
Posted On November 29, 2016 Posted By Andy Buerckner
A new Skyteam Alliance Lounge will be opening its doors at Beijing Airport in the coming weeks for international First and Business class passengers as well as Skyteam Elite Plus Frequent Flyers in economy. The lounge will feature seating for up to 160 passengers, complimentary Wi-Fi, computer terminals, access to USB ports and AC power, shower facilities, a buffet, self-serve beverages, a wine bar, a TV room and much more.
Richard Branson has now backed the creators of a new supersonic 'Boom' jet which is set to be capable of travelling from Sydney to Los Angeles in under seven hours. Virgin Galactic's manufacturing arm, the Spaceship Company, will help build a fleet of the 40 seater aircraft and first departures have been planned for 2023. It is estimated that the flights will cost about the same as current business class flights.
Cathay Pacific have had a soft opening of their business and first class lounges at London Heathrow Airport. Located in Terminal 3, the much awaited lounges will officially open on December 7. The business lounge will be open to Cathay Pacific business travellers, Marco Polo Club Gold members and Oneworld counterparts as well as business class passengers in other Oneworld airlines departing Terminal 3. The first class lounge will be open to Cathay Pacific first class travellers, Marco Polo Club Diamond and other first class Oneworld travellers departing Terminal 3.
All domestic Australian Business Class Flyers are now eligible for pre and post flight lounge access with Virgin Australia provided travellers present an applicable same-day boarding pass or itinerary. Previously, this was a benefit solely for Virgin Gold and Platinum frequent flyers.Virgin have confirmed that post flight lounge access is not eligible after Virgin International flights.
Singapore Airlines and Lufthansa Group have announced that as of 10 December, they will be expanding their codeshare networks across their 'home markets' in a joint venture agreement.This agreement will mean that travellers on Singapore Airlines will have access to 20 new European routes operated by Lufthansa and Swiss Airlines and in exchange, travellers on Lufthansa and Swiss Airlines will have access to more routes operated by Singapore Airlines.
Qantas have launched a new Virtual Reality app named 'Qantas VR', which gives travellers the opportunity to experience destinations before physically going there. The app is available for iPhone, Samsung Gear, Android, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive devices and Qantas have uploaded videos for destinations such as Uluru, Sydney Harbour and Hamilton Island with more in production.
Dragonair has now officially been rebranded as Cathay Dragon - bringing more visibility to the regional subsidiary of Cathay Pacific. Cathay Pacific and Cathay Dragon will share a single website as of 2017 and the Cathay Dragon rebrand has now been integrated to all boarding gates, lounges and check-in desks.
The European commission have confirmed plans for a new 'European Travel Information and Authorisation System' (ETIAS) that is projected to begin in 2020. The ETIAS will be a authorisation required for all visa exempt travellers to the EU in order to 'strengthen security' and 'secure borders' by advance checks and cross-checking of information on travellers before they enter the EU. ETIAS will be valid for five years for multiple travels and the application fee is estimated to cost five euros.
Cuba are now in an official 9 day period of mourning following the death of former president Fidel Castro. DFAT have advised travellers to 'refrain from any behaviour that may be interpreted as festive, disrespectful or disorderly'. The official period of mourning will end on December 4th when his remains will be buried.
Emirates have now retired the last of its Airbus A330 and A340 aircraft making their entire fleet solely Boeing 777s and Boeing A380s, the only airline in the world to do so. This change will now mean Emirates' inflight entertainment will be 100% video and travellers will have up to 2,600 channels to choose from.


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The surface-to-surface, single-stage missile is powered by solid propellants and can hit targets 700km away.
The missile was test-fired from a mobile launcher at 9.15am from launch pad-4 of the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Abdul Kalam Island (Wheeler Island), a defence official said.
The trial that was a part of training exercise by the Strategic Forces Command of the Indian Army was fully successful, the official said.
The sophisticated missile covered a distance of 700km within 9 minutes and 36 seconds, officials said.
"The launch was undertaken as a part of periodic training activity by SFC to further consolidate operational readiness," the official added.
The trajectory of the trial was tracked by a battery of sophisticated radars, telemetry observation stations, electro-optic instruments and naval ships from its launch till the missile hit the target area with accuracy, officials said.
Agni-I missile is equipped with a sophisticated navigation system that ensures it reaches the target with a high degree of accuracy and precision.
The missile, which has already been inducted into armed forces, proved its excellent performance in terms of range, accuracy and lethality, sources said.
Weighing 12 tonnes, the 15-metre-long Agni-I, is designed to carry a payload of more than one tonne. Its strike range can be extended by reducing the payload.
Agni-I was developed by Advanced Systems Laboratory, the premier missile development laboratory of DRDO in collaboration with the Defence Research Development Laboratory and Research Centre Imarat, and integrated by Bharat Dynamics Limited, Hyderabad.
The last trial of Agni-I, conducted on November 27, 2015 from the same base, was also successful. (PTI)


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The Kitzbühel Hahnenkamm Races 2013 ended with a wild party which turned night into day throughout the town. The exuberant atmosphere has its reason: nowhere else are racers similarly happy to have survived the downhill run in a healthy state. For them the Streif is the ultimate challenge, which they can only overcome thanks to their complete ability and their tremendous courage.
While the racers are still leaving Kitzbühel to head towards the next World Cup venue, the work for the 2014 race starts for the members of the Kitzbühel Ski Club (K.S.C.). "Streif – One Hell of a Ride" accompanies this partially spectacular, partially intricate work over the course of a year. At the same time, the film observes five athletes – Aksel Lund Svindal, Max Franz, Hannes Reichelt, Erik Guay and Yuri Danilochkin – in their respective homeland during summer training sessions and in their leisure time. The closer the Streif 2014 gets, the stronger the two narrative threads interlock, flanked by excursions into the history of the race – until the athletes finally arrive again in Kitzbühel.
There the excitement increases with every minute during the race week. The warm winter weather caused sleepless nights before the Streif 2014. Up until the very end the responsible race officials do not know whether and how the downhill run can take place. The drama before the race is followed by the drama of the race itself: Erik Guay gets injured before the final training. Max Franz must discover that he still has a lot to learn. Aksel Lund Svindal prematurely feels like a winner. And Hannes Reichelt surprises his fans with a perfect run. But at the same time he only finds out after the 2014 victory celebration that he actually should not have been allowed to start at all...


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The Great Legacy of Hubert H. Humphrey
Anne L. Howard-Tristani, Niece of Hubert H. Humphrey
2014 marks the 50th anniversary of the signing of the 1964 Civil Rights Act recently celebrated by three former presidents – Carter, Clinton and Bush – and President Obama at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas. While Lyndon Johnson is rightly praised for having been a driving force behind this historic act, Hubert H. Humphrey should also be recognized for his invaluable contributions to the 1964 and subsequent Civil Rights bills. Friends, family and staff of the late U.S. vice president and senator from Minnesota have always known that the votes for passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act would not have occurred had it not been for Humphrey's masterful and skillful legislative work as the floor leader of the Civil Rights Bill while Senate majority whip. But there is more history to HHH's legacy than one single act.
Humphrey devoted over 30 years of his public life and work as mayor of Minneapolis (1945-1948), U.S. senator (1948-1964), 38th vice president of the United States (1965-69) and U.S. senator once again (1971-1978), to fighting for human and civil rights. Best known to the public was his fiery speech at the 1948 Democratic Presidential Convention when Humphrey called on delegates to "get out of the darkness of states' rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights" by adopting the Minority Civil Rights Plank. Humphrey's speech resulted in the Democratic Party including a strong Civil Rights plank in the presidential platform that year, but it also caused South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond and the Southern "Dixiecrats" to walk out of the convention and form their own States' Rights Party. Humphrey's bold move could have cost Truman the election in 1948 and his own seat in the U.S. Senate but victory was ultimately achieved for Truman, Humphrey and Civil Rights that year.
The year 2014 also marks the 35th anniversary of the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program, created in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter, to honor the late U.S. vice president and senator's legacy. The Fellowship Program was established by Carter to honor Humphrey's "exemplary leadership, devotion to public service and courageous efforts to promote greater global justice and peace" following Humphrey's death on January 13th, 1978. What many people may not know is that the Humphrey Fellowship Program is one of the greatest living legacies to Hubert H. Humphrey in the 21st century just as many people may not know that it was Humphrey who pioneered most of the progressive legislation signed into law under the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, beginning with the Civil Rights legislation. For example, it was Humphrey who first proposed The Peace Corps program in 1958 and introduced the legislation in June of 1960; he proposed the Medicare program in 1949 and the Food for Peace Program in 1957; he proposed the Arms Control and Disarmament Act in 1959 and the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1960. Humphrey was successful in skillfully organizing broad-based coalitions of public, legislative and presidential support to pass all of these landmark pieces of legislation, plus many others, such as the Head Start Program, The National Defense Education Act, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act. Additionally, Humphrey continued his active role in international affairs throughout his Senate career. As a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Humphrey was appointed to serve as the Senate's special representative to the United Nations and was an active supporter of U.S. Foreign Assistance legislation from its inception in the 1950s. He also represented the Senate at many international conferences, such as the U.N. 1974 World Food Conference in Rome.
Why mention Humphrey's legislative achievements? Because the courage, determination, hard work, leadership, creativity, passion, vision and selflessness it took for Humphrey to ultimately succeed in obtaining his legislative and personal goals for a more just and better world for all people is what the Humphrey Fellowship Program embodies. Just as Humphrey's life was dedicated to advancing basic human and civil rights, equality, social justice, international cooperation, understanding and peace, so too is the Humphrey Fellowship Program dedicated to achieving these same goals through the professional development of future global leaders.
The Hubert H. Humphrey Fellows are mid-career professionals from more than 150 countries around the world who are selected competitively based on their demonstrated leadership, commitment and passion for public service, in both the public and private sectors. The fellows are individuals who believe, just like Humphrey did, that they can make a difference in improving other people's lives and making a contribution to a better world. The Humphrey Fellows are doctors, teachers, engineers, lawyers, human rights advocates, journalists, communications specialists, agronomists, public servants, linguists, law enforcement specialists and more.
Today, there are more than 5,000 alumni of the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program of the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The program is administered by the Institute for International Education. Humphrey Fellows have an idealism and enthusiasm for life and their work not unlike Hubert Humphrey's optimistic and indomitable spirit. The Happy Warrior's passion for solving the world's problems – to feed the hungry, provide medicine to the sick, education to the illiterate, jobs and training for the unemployed and promote international understanding, cooperation and peace, not war – are embodied in each and every class of Humphrey Fellows. Humphrey's compassion and caring for the weak and needy, for the young and old, and for the physically challenged can be found in today's Humphrey Fellows. HHH's deep belief in equality and justice and his ability to live and fight for what he believed in without malice, envy, bitterness or self-pity are also characteristics that can be found in the lives and achievements of the Humphrey Fellows. They represent a new generation of global leaders, who like Humphrey, will keep fighting for what they believe in, not for themselves but for all people, everywhere.
On behalf of the Humphrey Family, I want to thank President Jimmy Carter and his National Security Council staff member, the late Robert Pastor, for their vision in creating the single most important tribute and living legacy to Hubert H. Humphrey by establishing the HHH Fellowship Program. Congratulations to President Carter for his active participation every year in the Humphrey Fellowship Program's Human Rights Workshop in Atlanta. Let us remember President Carter's words at Humphrey's Memorial Service at the U.S. Capitol in January 1978 when he said:
"At critical times in our history, the United States has been blessed by great people, who just by being themselves, give us a vision of what we are at our best and of what we might become. Hubert H. Humphrey was such a man…Yesterday, as messages poured into me as president, and to members of the Humphrey family from throughout the world, I realized vividly that Hubert Humphrey was the most beloved of all Americans and that his family encompassed not just people of the United States but all people everywhere."
On this 35th anniversary of the Humphrey Fellowship Program, I salute all of the Humphrey Fellows, the Class of 2013-2014 and Alumni around the world, who represent the ideals and legacy of Hubert Humphrey. You inspire each of us and would also make my late Uncle Hubert proud of your active work to expand international understanding, education, cooperation and development to achieve our shared goal of a more just, equitable and peaceful world.


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I'm leveling up a lot quicker, I'd say around 25%, than my friend when we play together.
I'm playing Engi he is playing Embermage. We both don't have any +exp skills, items or spells and only quest together within experience range.
Any clue what might cause this?
Mainly asking because it's annoying for him to also "level alone" to get on my level again.


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Almost all of us draw on autobiographical material when writing. This leads to a lot of powerful prose, and probably saves a ton of money in psychiatric bills. But it can also cause major problems with fiction writing, because it can make it hard for the writer to make stuff up. And if you're not making something up, you're not making something up, you're writing a journal entry, which can be beautiful, but it is not a story.
Say you are inspired by your Uncle Louis, a real one of a kind sort of guy who was one of the most colorful figures you ever knew. You always thought you wanted to write about him. He applied for a patent on a copying machine, and he got it. You write up the story, give it to me, and I say, "That's great that Uncle Louis got the patent, but the story would have more tension if he didn't get it."
"But he did get it," you say.
"Yes," I say, "but the story would be better if he didn't."
"But he did get it. Patent number 3333."
"Well," I say, "what if a woman steals his patent then?"
"But he was married to Aunt Irene for 50 years."
You see where I'm going with this? Keeping the story too tied to Uncle Louis makes it difficult for the writer to use his imagination. It's locking him into someone else's story. It's taking away the author's power.
What to do? First, think of why Uncle Louis appeals to you. Why do you want to write his story? Is it because you admire his fighting spirit? Can you create a character who has the same fighting spirit but is different than Uncle Louis? Maybe, instead of making your character a little old man, you could make him a young man with red hair. Or, make him into a woman. The key thing is to take ownership of him. He's no longer your uncle. He's your character. You can do with him what you want.


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Conservation International focuses on a wide range of topics related to ecosystems, biodiversity and human well-being, all around the world. See where.
Biodiversity Hotspots
There are places on Earth that are both biologically rich — and deeply threatened. For our own sake, we must work to protect them.
Climate Change
Our food system, our economies, our cities and our communities — they're all adapted to the climate we currently live in. But what if the climate changes too fast for us to keep up? The fate of the one and only planet we've ever called home is uncertain. It is in everyone's interest to come together to address the challenges we face.
Field Projects
Sometimes, to make conservation happen, you've got to get your boots muddy. Charles Darwin. Mary and Louis Leakey. Jane Goodall. Oftentimes, the most remarkable science is done by people with their feet in the proverbial mud.
Food: Agriculture and Fisheries
Soils. Water. Healthy oceans. Without these building blocks of nature, people would starve. Today, 842 million people do not have enough to eat. And the pressures on our food system are only growing. We must figure out how to feed the world — without destroying it.
Robert Frost had it right — the woods are lovely, dark and deep. They're our respite. Our places of peace. Our natural air filters. Our water factories. Our medicine cabinets. We literally can't live without them. So why are they disappearing?
Fresh Water
Water is life. It's vital. It supports the immense diversity of life on Earth. It's a source of food, health and energy. Fresh water makes civilization possible. But fresh water, in turn, isn't possible without a healthy planet — and human actions are putting a healthy planet at risk.
Global Stability
The loss of forests, fresh water and fertile soils — and the resulting competition for these increasingly scarce resources — can lead to instability, conflict, radicalization and, in the worst case, failed states.
Innovating with Business
Business is the engine that drives global economic growth. What if companies were also conservation champions — taking bold, practical actions that benefit people, the planet and the bottom line?
Investing in Nature
Nature provides vital, unmatchable and ongoing returns to all of humanity. An investment in our planet is an investment in our future. We can't protect our lands, waters and other natural resources without long-term financial commitments.
The loss of forests, fresh water and fertile soils — and the resulting competition for these increasingly scarce resources — can lead to instability, conflict, radicalization and, in the worst case, failed states.
Men and Women: Partners in Conservation
Men and women use natural resources in different ways and therefore have different needs, priorities and interests when it comes to conservation. Demonstrating how men and women can work as partners in conservation is critical for success.
The Ocean
The ocean makes life on Earth possible. It nourishes our bodies and our souls. It influences our weather, fuels economies and connects distant lands. It is vast, deep, powerful and mysterious. And it's in trouble.
Partnering with Communities
From the Amazon to Africa, and all around the world, communities are on the front lines of conservation.
Science and Innovation
We can't protect our planet, and the people who depend on it, unless we understand it.
It is often said that "everything returns to the sea." For many people all over the world, they never left.
Wildlife Trade and Trafficking
Illicit wildlife trafficking is valued at billions of dollars per year — behind narcotics and illegal arms trades.
Working with Governments
Nature's ability to meet our needs for food, water, energy and other essential services for human well-being requires sound government policy and smart funding choices.


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Anxiety: the emotional response that plays a major role in animal survival, it works like an answer from the an individual before a potentially dangerous situation.
The emotions, the images, the thoughts that we associate with this word are untranslatable from other place that is not the body, not only through movement but through the externalization of it; that body that speaks about what is happening to it and without saying a word, it may control every part of it. This choreography tries to recreate that moment of distress.
Direction and choreography: Aiala Echegaray Mendiguren
Dancers: Isabel Duplan, Paz Holguin, Marta Tejada, and Aiala Echegaray.
Illumination: Pilar Duque De Estrada
Sound space: Martin Ghersa
Creation Residences: Real Conservatorio Profesional de danza Mariemma
Length: 20 minutes
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Date: July 12th – 15th, 2017
Location: National Ability Center, 1000 Ability Way, Park City UT 84060
Camp Neuro Revolution offers an amazing opportunity for pre-teens and teens, ages 10 – 18, with Epilepsy. Campers are offered the opportunity to participate in activities that are otherwise off-limits, like swimming. Yes, swimming with epilepsy. Other activities offered are archery, crafts, cycling, horseback riding, rock wall climbing, ropes course challenges, sledge hockey and more!
For more information about camp or to apply to attend Camp Neuro Revolution, click here: http://epilepsyut.org/programs/camp-neuro-revolution/