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One day in our house,(Last Year) about 15 people in the second floor, and about twenty , in the first floor. To organize a trip to Dondra (Devinuwara), I've asked who wants to come in a van , to worship the Lord Buddha, in Dondra, with God Upulwan Devindu. In the first floor all the people agreed without any comments to do that without get so long in the day after that day. In the Second floor, without one person, all others didn't like to go there on that day. Then I gave them a lesson, saying a God can't do every thing only we can do that like driving, but some unexpected events we can't resist. Only God know. While the speech, a smell like we smell in Dondra, came to our room, every one felt that. Then I said "If this is God's power wnen I going to change the topic, this coming smell must be stopped." As I said , It has vanished with my topic changed. Nothing smelt.
After that I came downstairs and asked others did you feel some thing like that sort of smell. Everyone said NO. Then I realized, It was only for the 2nd floor, near this floor. This is one of my many experiences regarding the God Vishnu in a short period of time. In my early years I didn't want to believe, Gods like Vishnu and I trusted myself These stories are false. After My A/L ( In Maths Subjects) in school times I've done many experiments regarding Gods and many Un-Seen subjects. ( I can't write down every thing here). My experiences , you will be able to know in the future if you are with me in my blogs and the site , named "StarLankaOnline.Com".
Again to the topic, now the festive season has begun and you'll be able to worship the Lord Buddha, and God there. If you really want to get bless from the site, Don't visit there getting Meat, Fish or Beer, Arrack or having drunk. The God really help you if you can do that. As long as you keep the things going on, your ill or sick health going to be vanished forever and the development of in your life will be done.
Here are some Photos in 2008 season.( In this time, Main, Basnayaka Nilame , The Highest Position of the programme, is Mahinda Wijesekara's Son,)
All The Photos has been taken by me, Priyantha De Silva, Using my NOKIA, Camera Phone.
In their religious observances the Sri Lankan Buddhists have adopted from Indian tradition the use of the lunar calendar. The four phases of the moon are the pre-new-moon day, when the moon is totally invisible, the half-moon of the waxing fortnight, the full moon, and the half-moon of the waning fortnight. Owing to the moon's fullness of size as well as its effulgence, the full-moon day is treated as the most auspicious of the four phases. Hence the most important religious observances are held on full-moon days and the lesser ones in conjunction with the other phases. In the Buddhist calendar, the full moon, as the acme of the waxing process, is regarded as the culmination of the month and accordingly the period between two full moons is one lunar month.[10]
The religious observance days are called poya days. The Sinhala term poya is derived from the Pali and Sanskrit form uposatha (from upa + vas: to fast) primarily signifying "fast day." Fasting on this day was a pre-Buddhist practice among the religious sects of ancient India. While the monks use the monthly moonless day (called amavaka in Sinhala) and the full-moon day for their confessional ritual and communal recitation of the code of discipline (Patimokkha), the lay devotees observe the day by visiting temples for worship and also by taking upon themselves the observance of the Eight Precepts.
A practicing Buddhist observes the poya day by visiting a temple for the rituals of worship and, often, by undertaking the Eight Precepts. The Eight Precepts include the Five Precepts (see above, pp.5-6), with the third changed to abstinence from unchastity, and the following three additional rules: (6) to abstain from solid food after mid-day;
(7) to abstain from dancing, singing, music, and improper shows, and from ornamenting the body with garlands, scents, unguents, etc.;
(8) to abstain from the use of high and luxurious beds and seats. If one decides to observe the Eight Precepts, one would wake up early, bathe and clad oneself in clean white garments, and go to the nearest temple. The incumbent monk administers the precepts to the entire group assembled for the purpose. Thereafter they would spend the day according to a set timetable which would include sermons, pujas, periods of meditation, and Dhamma discussions. At meditation centers there will be more periods of meditation and fewer sermons and pujas.
The observance of the Eight Precepts is a ritualistic practice of moral discipline quite popular among the Sinhala Buddhists. While the Five Precepts serve as the moral base for ordinary people, the Eight Precepts point to a higher level of training aimed at advancement along the path of liberation. The popular practice is to observe them on full-moon days, and, among a few devout lay Buddhists, on the other phases of the moon as well.
The poya observance, which is as old as Buddhism itself, has been followed by the Sinhala Buddhists up to the present day, even after the Christian calendar came to be used for secular matters. Owing to its significance in the religious life of the local Buddhists, all the full-moon days have been declared public holidays by the government. Another noteworthy fact about this day is that every full-moon poya has assumed some ritualistic significance in one way or other.
The first and the foremost of the poya holy days is the full-moon day of Vesak (May), commemorating the birth, Enlightenment, and passing away of the Buddha. The significance of Vesak is further heightened for the Sinhala Buddhists, as Sri Lankan tradition holds that it was on the Vesak Poya Day, in the eighth year after his Enlightenment, that the Buddha paid his third visit to Sri Lanka, journeying to Kelaniya on the invitation of the Naga King Maniakkhika (Mhv. i,72ff.). Consequently, Kelaniya has become a very popular place of worship and pilgrimage, the center of worship there being the celebrated dagaba, enshrining the gem-set throne offered to the Buddha by the Nagas (dragons). An annual procession is held there to commemorate the event.
Both in importance and in temporal sequence, the next significant poya is the full-moon of Poson (June), which is specially noteworthy to the Sri Lankan Buddhists as the day on which Emperor Asoka's son, the arahant Mahinda, officially introduced Buddhism to the island in the 3rd century B.C. Accordingly, in addition to the normal ritualistic observances undertaken on a poya day, on Poson day devotees flock to Anuradhapura, the ancient capital city of the country, for it was there that arahant Mahinda converted the then ruler, King Devanampiya Tissa, and his court to Buddhism, thereby setting in motion a series of events that finally made Sri Lanka the home of Theravada Buddhism. Even today, on Poson Poya, Anuradhapura becomes the center of Buddhist activity. Mihintale, the spot where the momentous encounter between the Elder and the King took place, accordingly receives the reverential attention of the devotees. The two rituals of pilgrimage and the observance of the Eight Precepts are combined here. Processions commemorative of the event, referred to as Mihundu Peraheras, are held in various parts of the country.
The next poya is Esala (July), which commemorates several significant events in the history of Buddhism. The most prominent of these is the Buddha's preaching of his First Sermon, the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, to the five ascetics at the Deer Park, near Benares, thereby inaugurating his public ministry. The other noteworthy events connected with this day include the conception of the Bodhisatta in the womb of Queen Maya, his Great Renunciation, the performance of the Twin Miracle (yamaka-patihariya), and his preaching the Abhidhamma for the first time in the Tavatimsa heaven. An additional factor that enhances the value of this poya to Sri Lanka is the first local ordination of a Sri Lankan, when Prince Arittha, the nephew of the king, entered the Order at Anuradhapura, under arahant Mahinda, following the introduction of Buddhism. On this day there also took place the laying of the foundation for the celebrated dagaba, the Mahathupa or the Ruwanvelisaya and also its enshrinement of relics by King Dutugemunu. It is owing to the combination of all these events that the Sinhala Buddhists fittingly observe the day ceremonially by holding Esala festivals throughout the island, giving pride of place to the internationally famous Kandy Esala Perahera.
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The term perahera, primarily meaning "procession," signifies a popular Buddhist ceremony replete with many rituals, commencing and culminating respectively with the kap-planting and the water-cutting ceremonies. These two ceremonies are respectively the introductory and the concluding rites of the annual Esala festivals, held in July and August in various parts of the island. They are essentially connected with the Buddhist deities, either to invite their blessings or to give thanks to them for favors received. During this period every year, such religious festivals are held in almost all the religious centers of Sri Lanka where there are abodes dedicated to various Buddhist deities. However, the festival par excellence of this category is the Kandy Esala Perahera, which is connected with the Temple of the Tooth and the abodes (devalayas) of the four Buddhist deities, Vishnu, Kataragama, Natha, and the Goddess Pattini. The main feature of all these festivals held during this period is the elaborate procession held on the lines of the Kandy Esala Perahera.
Both the kap-planting and water-cutting ceremonies are performed by the lay officiating priests (kapuralas) of the devalaya concerned, who are traditionally the experts regarding the details of their performance. These details are generally regarded as secret and are not divulged to the profane public.
The preliminary rite of kap-planting consists of planting a shaft, usually fashioned from a felled young jak tree, which must have borne no fruit. When cut, this tree exudes a white sap which is regarded as a symbol of prosperity. Even felling the tree is done with several attendant rituals at an auspicious time: the trunk is divided into four, one for each of the devalayas, where it is carried with drums and attendance. On the day of the new moon, at an auspicious hour (nakata), the "kaps" thus prepared are set up in the ground in a special place decorated with leaves, flowers, and fruits. For five nights small processions are conducted within the devalaya precincts around the consecrated kaps. Sometimes benedictory stanzas are chanted by monks.
This rite of kap is a kind of vow that the Esala festival, consisting mainly of the perahera, will be held; it is also an invitation to the deities to be present during the festival, providing the necessary protection for its successful performance. In this sense it is this ritual that inaugurates the festival.
The water-cutting ceremony (diya-kapum-mangalyaya), which is the concluding ritual of the Esala festival, is performed in the early hours of the day following the final perahera. The officiating lay-priest (kapurala) proceeds on a caparisoned elephant to a selected place along a river bank. He would either go to a selected spot in the river by boat or wade through the water to a particular spot and after drawing a magic circle on the water with the sword he carries, he "cuts" the water and fills the vessel he carried there with water from that spot. Before doing so he empties the water that he took in this same manner the previous year. He then returns to the devalaya, and the vessel of water is kept there until the following year. The ritual is repeated annually in an identical manner. This is believed to be a rain-making ceremony of sympathetic magic, which type of ritual is quite common in agrarian societies the world over. The Buddhists seem to have adopted this to suit their purposes.
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The annual Esala Perahera in Kandy, held in honor of the Sacred Tooth Relic of the Buddha, is the most colorful traditional procession in the country. It is the prototype of the other peraheras held elsewhere in the island in such places as Kataragama,[11] Aluthnuwara, Lankatilaka, Bellanwila, Devinuwara, etc. The Kandy Perahera is itself the latest expression of the annual festival in honor of the Tooth Relic that has been held with state patronage from the time the relic was brought to Sri Lanka from India in the 4th century A.C. Although periodically there have been intermittent breaks due to unsettled political conditions, the festival was never neglected intentionally. This had been so even during colonial times. Respected as the palladium of Sinhala royalty, the Relic had been accommodated in different parts of the country, depending on the change of the capital city. Ultimately it came to stay in Kandy, which was the last royal seat of the Sinhala people.
Esala Poya assumes prominence for yet another ritual of the Sri Lankan Buddhists. This is the annual rains retreat of the monks, Vassa, which commences on the day following the Esala full moon (discussed in Chap. 8). On the next poya day, Nikini (August), those monks who failed to commence the normal Vassa on the day following Esala Poya, are allowed to enter the "late Vassa."
The poya that follows Nikini is Binara (September), which assumes solemnity as marking the inauguration of the Order of Bhikkhunis (nuns) with the ordination of Queen Mahapajapati and her retinue. Next follows the Vap Poya (October), which concludes the final month of the three-month rains retreat. During the following month kathina robes are offered to the monks who have duly completed the Vassa. The high esteem in which this ritual is held by the Sinhala Buddhists may be gauged from the fact that the month is popularly referred to as the "month of robes" (see Chap. 8). The November full moon, called Il, signifies the terminal point for the kathina ritual. It is also the day for commemorating such events as the despatch of the first sixty disciples by the Buddha on missionary work, the prospective Buddha Metteyya being declared a sure Buddha-to-be by Gotama Buddha, and the passing away of the arahant Sariputta, the Buddha's foremost disciple.
The Unduwap Poya that follows in December is of great moment to Sri Lanka as commemorating two memorable events connected with the visit of Theri Sanghamitta, sister of arahant Mahinda, from India in the third century B.C. (Mhv.iv,18-19). The first of these events was the arrival at Anuradhapura of a sapling of the sacred Bodhi-tree at Buddhagaya, brought to Sri Lanka by Sanghamitta. The planting of this tree is the origin of the Bodhi-puja in the country (see Chap. 4).
The other memorable event commemorated by this poya is the establishment of the Order of Nuns (bhikkhuni-sasana) in Sri Lanka by the Theri Sanghamitta when she ordained Queen Anula and her entourage of 500 women at Anuradhapura. Records indicate that the Bhikkhuni Sangha thus established flourished during the Anuradhapura period (third century B.C. to eleventh century A.C.), but disappeared after the decline of that kingdom. Historical records are silent as to the reasons for its extinction, but they do report how the Sinhala Bhikkhuni Sangha helped in the establishment of the Order of Nuns in China.[12] In the 5th century a group of Sinhala nuns headed by the Bhikkhuni Devasara went to China to confer higher ordination there and the Bhikkhuni Sangha thus established survives there to this day. The Sinhala Buddhists commemorate this poya day with peraheras, observance of the Eight Precepts, and meetings. The day is designated Sanghamitta Day. Nowadays the dasasil matas (ten-precept nuns) take an active part in initiating these commemorative functions.
Next follows the Durutu Poya (January) when the Sinhala Buddhists commemorate the first visit of the Buddha to the island. According to the Mahavamsa, nine months after his Enlightenment, the Buddha visited present Mahiyangana in the Badulla District, where stands the dagaba by that name enshrining the Buddha's hair relics and the collar bone (Mhv.i,197). The Buddhists remember the event by holding an annual perahera. This much-venerated dagaba is also of consequence as the first edifice of this type to be constructed here, originating the ritual of dagaba worship in Sri Lanka.
The poya that follows, Navam Poya (February), celebrates the Buddha's appointment of the two arahants, Sariputta and Moggallana, as his two chief disciples. It also marks the Buddha's decision to attain Parinibbana in three months' time. The Medin Poya in March is hallowed by the Buddha's first visit to his parental home after his Enlightenment, during which he ordained the princes Rahula, Nanda, and many others as monks. The month that follows is called Bak (pronounced like "buck"), which corresponds to April. In this month it is not the full-moon day but the new-moon day that invites attention as signalizing the Buddha's second visit to Sri Lanka, when he visited Nagadipa[13] on the day preceding the new-moon day (amavaka: Mhv.i,47) in the fifth year after his Enlightenment.
The above brief account of the twelve poya days demonstrates how the poya day has become intimately connected with the life of the Buddha and consequently with the principal events of early Buddhist history. The Sri Lankan Buddhists, quite accustomed as they are to commemorate such events with rituals and ceremonies in full measure, have maintained these traditions up to the present.
Extract from Buddhist Ceremonies and Rituals of Sri Lanka
A.G.S. Kariyawasam
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Joanne Corker's four-month quest for the perfect wedding spot took her from a glass chapel on the Palos Verdes Peninsula to an old mansion set among orange groves in Loma Linda.
It ended in June when she and her fiance were married in a hilltop chapel at one of Southern California's largest cemeteries, where about 300,000 people are buried.
Since 1929, more than 35,000 couples have exchanged vows at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale. Shaded by oaks and pines and landscaped with life-sized sculptures, fountains and fragrant flowers, the lush green grounds offer a beautiful, if incongruous, setting for a marriage ceremony.
Graves Are Reminder
Despite the credo of founder Hubert Eaton--that Forest Lawn should be a spiritual haven for the living--the neat rows of memorial tablets marking the graves are a constant reminder that it is primarily a place for the dead.

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2014 is a year that just keeps on giving. But sometimes, not necessarily the best things. As I sit in front of the computer screen being a 'keyboard warrior', I feel like there's a need for a comment to be made after watching this movie, and that this is one of the worst movies made in history, and I'm not talking about cinematography or shots, but the plot and the underlying messages - the themes, what it affects, and of course the consequences it has set off, even though it cannot be more clear in he beginning.
I alike so many people(or like to think so), saw the trailer or even read the plot on wikipedia or wherever, and found it incredibly funny or at the least entertaining and plan to catch this comedy piece during the holiday season for a good laugh - especially since Seth Rogen directed, produced and acted in it.
Initially I really didn't understand the social impact or why North Korea had such violent objection and hostility to it, but upon watching it, I absolutely understand why.
The movie opens with a young North- Korean girl singing ill wills about Americans to a crowd of North Koreans, which puts and encourages hostility among the East & the West, with hopes of American women getting raped and having their own family members see their own suffer. This was never something that was proven and was all plotted for even heavier stereotyping of the isolated country.
In the trailer, we only see how funny and James Franco & Kim Jong-Un got along, and viewers are given the idea that this is going to be a show with a happy ending, and that they are not going to assassinate the latter. However, in the film itself, they portrayed Kim as a almost bi-polar person living in the shadows of his father and decides to bomb America when the interview turns the direction he didn't want.
With comedy that isn't at all funny, and also gore and blood which served absolutely no purpose, which only adds how irrelevant this film is. The film ends off with Seth & James shooting the Helicopter Kim was on with a tank.


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Oh, I wholeheartedly agree with your comments about the draw backs of womanhood! Shaving...bras...veins...andthe uterus issues!!! Yes, ain't it great being a girl!
Aimee asked what i would do differently when raising kids...if I could do it all over again...
Good question. I can answer that ONLY because I am older and wiser and I'm not raising any children any more! First of all I would take more seriously the admonition from the Prophets to have family prayer, scripture study and FHE. We did this...but I would be more consistant. I totally believe that this helps put ALL things in the proper perspective. I remember one year when my kids were really little that we did not go to the park all summer long. Oh, my laundry was done and the house was clean and my church calling fulfilled.etc. etc....but we never had 'time' to go to the park. I have felt guilty about this...forever. I think even these kinds of things are helped by doing the "big 3" things first.
So...to all you young moms out there remember that when you do things in 'wisdom and order' that 'great things will be brought to pass'.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Oh, I wholeheartedly agree with your comments about the draw backs of womanhood! Shaving...bras...veins...andthe uterus issues!!! Yes, ain't it great being a girl!
Posted by BigDaddyandBekBek at 9:03 PM
4 comments:
- mjs ashworth said...
Thanks for the important reminder of what it's really all about! I think I turned out okay even if I missed a whole summer of park days! I love you thanks for being the BOMB MOM!
- April 18, 2008 at 12:45 PM
- Aimee Kieffer, aka "Momzoo" said...
Thank you! I knew you would have some great insight. I think we learn the most by learning from others.
I have to let you know, I took my kids to the park today, even thought my "cleaning" (today is my deep cleaning day) wasn't done, and it was so worth it!
- April 18, 2008 at 3:20 PM
- Lawson Family said...
Thank you for the great reminder! Also, you are a wonderful mom, I always find myself thinking what would my mom do in this situation. You are incredible and I think we had just as much fun scrubbing the garbage cans as we would have had the park!!!
- April 20, 2008 at 6:57 PM
- Anonymous said...
I think you make a really good point here (even though I am not LDS). Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for commenting on my blog too!
- August 5, 2008 at 1:55 AM


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Journal of Nanotechnology
Volume 2013, Article ID 509628, 7 pages
Fluorescent Silica Nanoparticles in the Detection and Control of the Growth of Pathogen
Environmental Nanotechnology Division, Sri Paramakalyani Centre for Environmental Sciences, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Alwarkurichi, Tamil Nadu 627412, India
Received 17 July 2013; Revised 15 September 2013; Accepted 30 September 2013
Academic Editor: Thomas Thundat
Copyright © 2013 Kethirabalan Chitra and Gurusamy Annadurai. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
In this present study the bioconjugated fluorescent silica nanoparticles give an efficient fluorescent-based immunoassay for the detection of pathogen. The synthesized silica nanoparticles were polydispersed and the size of the silica nanoparticles was in the range of 114–164 nm. The energy dispersive X-ray spectrophotometer showed the presence of silica at 1.8 kev and the selected area diffractometer showed amorphous nature of silica nanoparticles. The FTIR spectrum confirmed the attachment of dye and carboxyl group onto the silica nanoparticles surface. The fluorescent silica nanoparticles showed highly efficient fluorescence and the fluorescent emission of silica nanoparticles occurred at 536 nm. The SEM image showed the aggregation of nanoparticles and bacteria. The growth of the pathogenic E. coli was controlled using silica nanoparticles; therefore silica nanoparticles could be used in food packaging material, biomedical material, and so forth. This work provides a rapid, simple, and accurate method for the detection of pathogen using fluorescent-based immunoassay.
1. Introduction
The fundamental building blocks of nanotechnology are nanoparticles [1]. The particulate dispersions or solid particles with a size in the range of 10–1000 nm are called nanoparticles [2]. Silica is encompassed of a honeycomb-like porous structure with hundreds of empty channels. Due to their unique properties such as high surface areas, large pore volumes, tuneable pore sizes with a narrow distribution, and tuneable particle diameters, currently silica nanoparticles have been intensively investigated in materials research [3]. Because of their simple preparation and possible applications in several fields, dispersed, uniform, and amorphous silica nanoparticles have produced specific interest [4].
Generally two methods are being used for the preparation of silica nanoparticles, such as microemulsion which is used to prepare the dye-doped and magnetic nanoparticles and stober method which is used to prepare pure silica and organic dye doped silica nanoparticles. The morphology of the nanoparticles can be controlled through the parameters involved in the process [5]. In stober process, due to the hydrolysis process, the ethoxy groups are replaced by TEOS; the hydrolysis reaction initiates by the attachment of hydroxyl anions on TEOS molecules [6, 7]. The condensation reaction occurs immediately after hydrolysis reaction. The Si–O–Si bridges are formed by the alcohol condensation of hydroxyl group of intermediate reaction with ethoxy group of other TEOS, or the water condensation of hydroxyl group of another intermediate by hydrolysis reaction [7, 8].
In biotechnological and information technologies applications, the fluorescent nanoparticles are excellent as an indicators and photon sources. Currently, in biology and medicine, fluorescent silica nanoparticles have appeared as an attractive fluorescent probe and engrossed extensive attention. Various biomedically important targets, such as cancer cells, bacteria, and individual biomolecules could be labelled with highly fluorescent silica NPs that have emerged in biomedical field [9, 10]. A two-step process is involved in the synthesis of fluorescent silica nanoparticles: the first one is the dye chemically bound to an amine-containing silane agent, followed by APTES and TEOS that are hydrolysed together to form dye-doped silica nanoparticles [11].
The silica has entrenched surface chemistry which allows for the surface functionalization of silica nanoparticles with various functional groups such as amino, carboxyl, thiol, and methacrylate [12]. Various techniques include layer-by-layer assembly, physical adsorption, and silane coupling agents (co hydrolysis), are commonly used for the functionalization of silica nanoparticles surface. Among these techniques, silane functionalization method is widely used for the silica surface modification. The covalent bond formation occurs between the surface silanol groups and silane coupling agents during the silane functionalization process [13, 14]. The cohydrolysis process is carried out by mixing suitable amount of organosilane with TEOS which facilitates particles conjugation and particle dispersion; various functional groups such as thiol, amine, carboxyl groups, and phosphonate groups could be attached by using this method [15, 16]. In this present work, silica nanoparticles surface is modified with carboxyl group with the help of silane coupling agent EDC. The carboxyl group modification process provides the well-dispersed nanoparticles and reduces the aggregation of silica nanoparticles and these water soluble surface functionalized nanoparticles can further be conjugated with biomolecules for biological applications [12, 17].
In this work, the surface modified fluorescent silica nanoparticles were prepared and used for control of the growth and detection of pathogen. The synthesized silica nanoparticles were spherical in shape and they polydispersed in size. The fluorescent silica nanoparticles excitation was found at 480 nm and emission occurred at 526 nm. Silica nanoparticles showed well antibacterial activity against E. coli.
2. Experiments
2.1. Materials
Triethoxy orthosilicate, 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane (APTES) nitric acid, ethanol, 1-ethyl-3-(3-dimethylaminopropyl)-carbodiimide (EDC), phosphate buffer, 2-(N-morpholino) ethanesulfonic acid buffer (MES) and N-hydroxysuccinimide (NHS), ethanol, and ammonia were purchased from Himedia India Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai. E. coli culture was obtained from Microlabs, Institute of Research and Technology, Arcot. Antibody (E. coli (1011) sc-57709) was purchased from Santa Cruz Biotechnology, INC Europe.
2.2. Preparation of Surface Modified Fluorescent Silica Nanoparticles
In a clean vessel 1.57 mL of ammonia (solvent), 37 mL of ethanol (solvent), and 5 mL of water was added together. The mixture was stirred for 5 min then 3 mL of TEOS was added to the mixture and stirred for 1 hr. The silica nanoparticle was recovered by centrifugation at 10,000 rpm for 30 min. The pellet was dried in hot air oven at 60°C.
1 mM of the amine reactive dye was mixed with 1.5 mL of dimethylformamide. The solution was stirred for 1 hr followed by 1 M of 3-(aminopropyltriethoxy silane) that was added to the mixture and stirred for 24 hr and then 1 g of dried silica nanoparticles was added to the aqueous solution. The reaction was carried out for 24 hrs, followed by centrifugation at 10,000 rpm for 30 min to collect fluorescent silica nanoparticles. The particles were dried at 60°C for 4 hr.
The carboxyl group modified fluorescent silica nanoparticles were prepared as follows. In a clean 50 mL beaker 10 mg of fluorescent silica nanoparticles was mixed in 1 mL of 0.1 M phosphate buffer (pH 7.4) and 20 μL of 1-ethyl-3-(3-dimethyl aminopropyl)-carbodiimide. The mixture was stirred for 4 hrs, and after 4 hrs of reaction the nanoparticles were centrifuged at 10,000 rpm for 30 min and washed with ethanol and distilled water several times. Then the particles were air-dried at 60°C for 4 hrs. The carboxyl surface modified fluorescent nanoparticles were characterized and used to detect the pathogenic bacteria.
2.3. Characterization of the Synthesized Nanoparticles
The nature of the prepared silica nanoparticles was observed using powder X-ray diffractometer (X'per PRO model) and CuKα radiation at 40 keV in the range of 20–80. Further, the morphology of the prepared nanoparticles was characterized by using scanning electron microscopy (HITACHI Model S-3000H). Energy dispersive X-ray diffractometer (Thermo SuperDry II) was used to analyse the element of the nanoparticles. The size of the synthesized silica nanoparticles was examined using transmission electron microscopy (JEOL-2010) and the selected area diffractometer was used to analyes the crystalline nature of the nanoparticles. The Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy analysis (MAKE, BRUKER Optik GmbH, Model no. TENSOR 27, OPUS version 6.5 software) was performed to know the possible functional groups of silica nanoparticles. The UV-spectrofluorometer was used to determine the fluorescence excitation and emission spectra of silica nanoparticles and the fluorescence microscope was used to analyse the fluorescence ability and also used to detect the pathogen.
2.4. Pairing of Antibody with Nanoparticles
The suspension of surface modified NPs was centrifuged at 10,000 rpm for 10 min and washed with distilled water and the pellet was dispersed in 1 mL of 0.1 M MES buffer, followed by 0.5 mL aqueous solution of 10 mM sulfo-NHS and 4 mM of EDC dissolved in MES buffer was added immediately to the nanoparticles solutions and the NPs suspension was incubated at room temperature with agitation. After 15 min of incubation the NPs were centrifuged at 10,000 rpm for 10 min and washed with 0.1 M of phosphate buffer (pH 7.4); then the nanoparticles were resuspended in 1.5 mL of phosphate buffer and then 100 μL of monoclonal antibody at the concentration of 0.1 mg/mL was added to the nanoparticles solution. After 2 hrs of reaction the conjugated nanoparticles were centrifuged and washed with phosphate buffer (0.1 M) several times and resuspended in phosphate buffer.
2.5. Control of the Growth of Pathogen Using Surface Modified Silica Nanoparticles
The different concentration of silica nanoparticles was used for determination of antibacterial activity of silica nanoparticles. The various concentrations of silica nanoparticles (20 μL, 50 μL, and 100 μL) were added into the LB medium and then E. coli culture was inoculation into the medium followed by incubated at room temperature in orbital shaker. The optical density of the broth was taken at 620 nm for different time intervals.
2.6. Bacteria Conjugated with Antibody Conjugated Nanoparticles
E. coli was grown at room temperature in nutrient broth for 16 hr on orbital shaker. 100 μL of 0.1 mg/mL of antibody conjugated silica nanoparticles added with 500 μL of 16 hrs bacterial sample. Then the suspension was incubated for 10–15 min, followed by the suspension was centrifuged at 10,000 rpm for 15 min to remove the unbound antibody conjugated nanoparticles with bacteria and washed with phosphate buffer for several times. Then the pellet was used for the detection of pathogen.
3. Results and Discussion
In highly supersaturated solution, a huge number of primary particles are first nucleated, and then the stable particles are formed by the rapid aggregation of primary particles. As a result, the monodispersed spherical-shaped particles were formed in the suspension [7].
The chemical reaction of the silica nanoparticles preparation and the hydrolysis and polycondensation reactions are as follows:
3.1. Morphological Characteristics of Silica Nanoparticles
Figure 1 shows the XRD pattern of stober silica NPs. The XRD spectrum of the silica nanoparticles shows that the synthesized silica nanoparticles are amorphous in nature. The XRD spectrum indicates a characteristic broad halo peak at 20° revealing the amorphous nature of the silica particles. The broad peak of XRD pattern stated, a high percentage of the silica particles are amorphous [18]. The 2θ value of the present XRD spectrum result was compared and confirmed by using standard JCPDS file and the obtained XRD result is matched with JCPDS file (79-1711); hence, XRD results confirmed that the synthesized material is amorphous silica particles.
Figure 2 shows the SEM and EDX images of the synthesized silica nanoparticles via stober method. Figure 2(a) shows that the synthesized silica nanoparticles are in spherical shape and the size of NPs is in the range of 151 nm to 165 nm, and also the unevenly distributed agglomerated spherical particles are present. Similarly, Venkatathri obtained polydispersed spherical silica particles with the size in the range of 100–200 nm [19].
Figure 2(b) shows the EDX spectrum of the synthesized silica nanoparticles. In the EDX results confirm the occurrence of strong signal features of elemental silica. Silica nanoparticles display an optical absorption band peak at approximately 1.8 keV and also the EDX reveals the presence of the impurities such as oxygen and carbon elements. Sajid and Devasena have reported that a strong Si peak occurred at 1.8 keV and also they noticed O and C element in EDX spectrum [20].
Figure 3 shows the TEM image of the synthesized silica nanoparticles. Figure 3(a) shows the various sizes of the silica nanoparticles synthesized via a stober method. The TEM images illustrate the spherical, polydispersed silica nanoparticles. The size of the synthesized silica nanoparticles is in the range of 114 nm–168 nm. Similarly, Chandran et al. reported without aggregated polydispersed particles and the size in the range of 200 nm [14]. An earlier study reported that during the nucleation process, any parameter which increases the rate of the hydrolysis process has a tendency to produce fewer nuclei; thus larger particles are formed at last [7]. Figure 3(b) shows the SAED pattern of the synthesized silica nanoparticles; the amorphous nature of the silica nanoparticles is confirmed using SAED pattern; there is no well-defined diffraction ring of synthesized silica nanoparticles. Yang et al. reported the similar result for SAED pattern they obtained SAED pattern without any defined ring [21].
Figure 4 shows the FTIR spectrum of silica, fluorescent silica, and carboxyl group modified silica nanoparticles. Figure 4(a) shows the FTIR spectrum of silica nanoparticles; the bands at 468 cm−1, 799 cm−1 and 1093 cm−1 are the main characteristic peaks of Si–O–Si bonds vibrational modes, which are recognizes to O–Si–O vibrational band, Si–O bending vibrational band, and Si–O–Si stretching vibration band, respectively [22–24]. The band at 1629 cm−1 reveals the presence of O–H bending vibration of adsorbed molecular water and the peak at 2926 cm−1 indicates the presence of unreacted TEOS in the silica particles. The absorbance band at 3420 cm−1 indicates the hydrogen bonded Si–OH stretching vibration of silica nanoparticles [25].
Figure 4(b) shows the fluorescent silica nanoparticles FTIR spectrum; the bands at 2895 cm−1 and 2831 cm−1 represent the stretching vibrations of C–H bonds, and they show that a few organic groups are attached on the surface of silica NPs [19]. The band at 1022 indicates Si–O–Si vibrational stretching and the bands at 3615 cm−1 and 3170 cm−1 indicate the bond interaction between the organic dye and silica particles [26]. The band at 1562 cm−1 designates the N–H bending vibrations of primary amine group.
Figure 4(c) shows the FTIR spectrum of carboxyl group modified silica nanoparticles. The band at 3433 cm−1 indicates the carboxyl group attached at the surface of synthesized silica particles. The peak at 1635 cm−1 donates the hydroxyl group [20]. The peaks at 1055 cm−1, 799 cm−1, and 460 cm−1 indicate the Si–O–Si bonds stretching vibration modes.
3.2. Fluorescence Studies
Figure 5(a) shows the excitation and emission spectra of silica. The excitation and emission of dye-doped silica NPs occur at 480 nm and 535 nm. Santra et al. reported that the emission and excitation of spectra remain the same for the pure Rubpy and LDS nanoparticles. They proved that there is no change in the emission intensity for the LDS nanoparticles and also they stated that the luminophores were well protected inside the silica network in normal atmosphere [27]. Figure 5(b) shows the fluorescence image of silica nanoparticles. Canton et al. reported that the highly luminescent dye doped silica nanoparticles synthesized via modified stober method and they have reported the fluorescent nanoparticles can be used for the bioanalysis and bioanalytical experiments [28].
3.3. Application of Silica Nanoparticles
The growth rate of biomass was compared with and without addition of silica nanoparticles with biomass. Figure 6 shows the antibacterial effect of silica NPs. The maximum growth inhibition of E. coli occurred at 100 μL of silica nanoparticles.
Song et al. reported similar results; they have stated the bacterial adhesion inhibition by the quaternary ammonium functionalized silica NPs. They proved that the bacteria were seriously damaged in their outer membrane and lost their cellular reliability of bacterial species while contacting with silica-QAS core shell NPs. Thus, the positively charged QAS-modified silica NPs interacted with the lipid bilayer structures of the bacterial membranes, which led to the death of cells. Due to the water-repelling properties and the positive charge of the QAS-modified silica NPs, adhered bacteria were directly eradicated. The antibacterial activity of NPs was influenced by the size of the NPs [29].
Figure 7 shows the fluorescent image of E. coli at ×60 magnification. Figure 7(a) shows that many fluorescent NPs were coupled with the bacterial cell; thus, the NPs provide highly proficient fluorescence-based immunoassay. The SEM image shows the aggregation of bacteria and nanoparticles; thus, it illustrates that so many antibodies conjugated silica NPs are bind with bacterial cell. The SEM image was taken at 6 Kv accelerating voltage and worked at ×57 magnification (Figure 7(b)). The amine holding antibody was conjugated onto the carboxyl functional group found on the surface of NPs. Each single fluorescent silica NP has tens of thousands of fluorescent dye; thus, the dye-doped silica NPs have the capability to show high intensification [30]. Due to the lack of heavy metal silica NPs are nontoxic. Silica NPs are greater material for microscopic imaging of cells in vivo because of their noncytotoxic properties along with their innate dispersivity [31]. Because of their higher density, silica NPs can be easily centrifuged during preparation, functionalization, and other solution treatment processes and the fluorescent silica NPs showed high photostability and provided easy surface modification process and they are inert so protect the dye from external factors [32]. Thus, a single bacterial cell was detected rapidly and exactly using silica nanoparticles. Similarly Zhao et al. detected the pathogen within 20 min by using antibody conjugated fluorescent silica NPs [33].
4. Conclusion
The surface modified fluorescent silica nanoparticles were prepared using a simple, nontoxic method. In this present study, amorphous, spherical-shaped silica nanoparticles were synthesized. The silica nanoparticles showed good antibacterial activity against pathogenic E. coli; thus, silica nanoparticles could be used as an antibacterial agent in many fields. The silica nanoparticles were used as fluorescent-based nanoprobe for detection of pathogen.
Conflict of Interests
The authors declare that they have no conflict of interests.
The authors gratefully acknowledge the DST-FIST sponsored programme, Department of Science Technology, New Delhi, India, for funding the research development (Ref. no. S/FST/ESI-101/2010) to carry out this work. The authors convey their thanks to CECRI for providing XRD, FTIR, and SEM facilities.
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Ode To The Northeast Wind - Poem by Charles Kingsley
Welcome, wild Northeaster!
Shame it is to see
Odes to every zephyr;
Ne'er a verse to thee.
Welcome, black Northeaster!
O'er the German foam;
O'er the Danish moorlands,
From thy frozen home.
Tired are we of summer,
Tired of gaudy glare,
Showers soft and steaming,
Hot and breathless air.
Tired of listless dreaming,
Through the lazy day--
Jovial wind of winter
Turn us out to play!
Sweep the golden reed-beds;
Crisp the lazy dike;
Hunger into madness
Every plunging pike.
Fill the lake with wild fowl;
Fill the marsh with snipe;
While on dreary moorlands
Lonely curlew pipe.
Through the black fir-forest
Thunder harsh and dry,
Shattering down the snowflakes
Off the curdled sky.
Hark! The brave Northeaster!
Breast-high lies the scent,
On by holt and headland,
Over heath and bent.
Chime, ye dappled darlings,
Through the sleet and snow.
Who can override you?
Let the horses go!
Chime, ye dappled darlings,
Down the roaring blast;
You shall see a fox die
Ere an hour be past.
Go! and rest tomorrow,
Hunting in your dreams,
While our skates are ringing
O'er the frozen streams.
Let the luscious Southwind
Breathe in lovers' sighs,
While the lazy gallants
Bask in ladies' eyes.
What does he but soften
Heart alike and pen?
'Tis the hard gray weather
Breeds hard English men.
What's the soft Southwester?
'Tis the ladies' breeze,
Bringing home their trueloves
Out of all the seas.
But the black Northeaster,
Through the snowstorm hurled,
Drives our English hearts of oak
Seaward round the world.
Come, as came our fathers,
Heralded by thee,
Conquering from the eastward,
Lords by land and sea.
Come; and strong, within us
Stir the Vikings' blood;
Bracing brain and sinew;
Blow, thou wind of God!
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I have definitely been feeling the shift into winter over the past week or so. Most of the leaves have fallen from our trees now, and bare branches are silhouetted against gray clouds—lots of gray clouds. We have entered the rainy season here, where every glimpse of sunshine is something to celebrate. The energy feels quiet, still, slow.
As winter has arrived, I have been drawing into myself more and more, and I have been craving silence. During the election, I got addicted, truly addicted, to checking Facebook and my various news sources throughout the day, over and over again. It was a compulsion I just couldn't seem to stop. I have managed to cut back since the election, mainly because most of the things I read either make me feel depressed or angry, but I'm still craving more silence, more blank space, and much less input from the outside world.
So I have decided to challenge myself to give up news, podcasts, and Facebook starting with tomorrow's new moon until the next new moon on December 28. I will also limit my TV watching and cut back on blog reading, but I'm still deciding on the parameters for those. I will continue using Instagram, but will limit it to checking in twice a day, no more than 10 minutes at a time.
Okay, whew, I feel a little anxious just writing all that! Can I do it??? This is how I know I have a problem, because it is frightening to think of letting it go!
Part of me feels guilty about tuning out the news, like I'm being a bad citizen or sticking my head in the sand. But I feel like I need to do this for the sake of my own mental health. I have an anxiety disorder, and am prone to depression, especially this time of year, and nothing in the news right now is helping with either of those conditions. I feel like I'm constantly buzzing with other people's stories, thoughts, and opinions and I can't find the quiet space I need to hear my voice or the voice of Goddess. I'm sure if something dramatic happens, I will hear about it one way or another.
But, what will I do with all this news and social media-free time I will have on my hands? I have been working my way through the book Mysteries of the Dark Moon: The Healing Power of the Dark Goddess by Demetra George, and my goal is to finish that by the Winter Solstice. I made a commitment to myself to really work through the book, not just read it quickly like I often do, but to dig deep, answer all the journal questions, and really absorb the material. I also created a Dark Goddess rosary that I have been working with as I read the book.
The book deals with shadow issues and shadow work, and last week I pulled out my SoulCollage™ book and materials and started working with them again. SoulCollage™ is very helpful for getting to know some of the shadowy aspects of our personalities, so I plan to keep making cards and working with them.
I also set up my Solstice Advent Wreath yesterday and lit my first candle for the Solstice Sun Wheel Prayer Circle that Beth Owl's Daughter leads every year. It was beautiful to turn off the lights at dusk last night and light my candle and join my prayers with all the others who are lighting candles for hope and peace this season. I'm looking forward to doing that each Sunday evening until the Winter Solstice.
I will also be spending time making plans for 2017 using my Biz & Life Planners from Leonie Dawson. I really enjoy using these workbooks and am excited to start setting some goals for 2017.
So that should keep me busy enough, while still leaving plenty of time for the quiet and stillness I crave at this time of year. I love curling up on the couch in the dark evenings with a cup of tea, a book and my journal. This year I'm really trying to flow with the quiet, introspective energy of winter instead of fighting it. Maybe we'll even get lucky and have a day or two of snow!
May you be blessed by the quiet and stillness of winter!
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|The Library
|This cabinet was in a corner of the Dining Room
|This is a window shade in the Dining Room
|African Marble Fireplace in the Dining Room
|The wall mural in the Dining Room is entitled "The Hunt" by Holslag
|This red room was too small and too crowded for any wide shots, but this one allows a glimpse.
|One of the ornately carved doors
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OverviewHeadland Digital Media was formed in March 1997 by the Pearson plc group as a wholly-owned online publishing business, based in California. The company's original focus was on creating, publishing, and distributing digital programming, and capitalizing on skills, technologies, and products developed by Mindscape Online Publishing over the previous year.
Headland Digital Media branded Internet programming that integrated themes and content from all of the Pearson publishing companies which included educational, informational material and games.
Mark Nieker, formerly general manager and executive vice president of Mindscape Online Publishing, lead the company as its CEO.
The only game known to have been published by Headland was netWar in 1997.
Headland Digital Media became part of the Learning Network, another of Pearson plc's companies, in September 2000.
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A group of call centre workers swapped headsets for hoes to get a park in shape.
The Helping Hands volunteer groups from EDF Energy picked up their gardening tools to tend to the grounds of Roker Park to help meet the standards set for the Royal Horticultural Society's Britain in Bloom competition.
Roker Park is a very popular park and everyone has their own memories here as a child, or as adults with their own children, so it is great that we can get involved in its upkeep.Craig Wilkinson, learning and development specialist at EDF Energy
A total of 4,132 groups across the country are set to take part in this year's Britain in Bloom campaign, and the team at Roker ensured the park was in first-class condition to take on all challengers.
Groups of staff volunteers donated approximately 540 hours of labour in the past year, getting their hands dirty on a range of maintenance work, including litter picking and horticultural work and removing weeds from flower beds, as well as tending to the children's play areas.
Craig Wilson, customer relationship officer, at Sunderland Council said: "The Helping Hands teams from EDF Energy have done a great job.
"They carried out a wide range of essential activities to a very high standard that have made a real difference to the park's appearance.
"The park is very well used and more and more events are being held here.
"We couldn't maintain the park's high standards without volunteer work, so we would like to thank EDF Energy for their time and effort in helping us."
Roker Park has already gained a range of achievements, including maintaining its Green Flag status for ten years.
The award is the benchmark of quality for parks and green spaces, guaranteeing that the area is welcoming, clean, well-maintained, safe and secure.
Craig Wilkinson, learning and development specialist at EDF Energy, said; "Roker Park is a very popular park and everyone has their own memories here as a child, or as adults with their own children, so it is great that we can get involved in its upkeep.
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Exciting opportunity for student athletes in summer of 2020!
Metea Global LIFE is taking students on a leadership conference to Spain and Switzerland in the summer of 2020. The theme for the conference for this year is sports and wellness. A few highlights include visiting the Camp Nou Soccer Stadium in Barcelona, Flamenco in Madrid, and the FIFA soccer museum in Zurich. If you would like more information, come to our meeting on January 23rd at 6pm in the LMC Collaboration Center. Please use this link to RSVP to the meeting: https://tinyurl.com/spainRSVP2020?
Here is the link to enroll on the trip: http://www.eftours.com/2195048xu
We look forward to traveling in 2020 and hope you can join us!
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In spite of having thousands of miles under my belt, so to speak, I have cultivated a studious level of ignorance about the inner workings of my car. Such auto ignorance, combined with my penchant for road trips makes me a treasure trove of "And once my car went..." stories.
So I was speeding along I-90, taking in a stunning sunset, when I heard a rattle in the bowels of my prized chariot. Applying my astute intelligence and 95th percentile analytical skills, I thought to myself, "Hmmm, this can only be one of two things". Something is wrong with my car or something is terribly wrong with my car.
First things first. Finding myself acutely stressed, I came upon Golden Arches. It had been a busy weekend, lots of travel plans to be made and executed with precision and here I was stuck at a rest stop with free wi-fi and no laptop.
Dove into french fries. Nothing like a little grease to get the old neurons firing. To cut a long story short, gentle reader, I dragged away yet another god-fearing AAA guy from his home and hearth. Cleaned the car while waiting for him. Made small talk after he arrived and revived my brave steed. Thanked him profusely. We said our goodbyes, and I sped off in a whirl of dust.
So it all turned out okay :-)
Same goes for an eggplant that came my way! Simply Ming-ed it. Yes, I just made that up :-D
Inspired by Ming Tsai, this recipe is loosely based on the master recipe using red bean sauce.While trying to come up with a vegetarian version, in a flash of inspiration, I used sweet potato. Infatuation with Vitamin A continues.
Anhoo, heres what I did:
1. Diced eggplant into cubes. Sprinkled some salt and let it sit for 15 mins. Zapped a sweet potato in the microwave.
2. To make the marinade: added sambal sauce and red bean paste in equal portions. Added chopped ginger, garlic and green onions.
3. Chucked the cubed vegetables into the marinade and let them hang out in the fridge for a couple hours.
4. Tossed everything into a skillet and cooked till the eggplant was brown round the edges. The sweet potato is already cooked so it just came along for the ride.
5. Garnished with green onions or cilantro.
I quite liked the end-product, eggplant and sweet potato in red bean paste. For one thing, I finally figured out how to use red bean paste. For another thing, this isn't overly sweet or spicy. The background spices are flavorful without being oerwhelming. Especially like how the sweet potato shines through spices. Worked nicely in a wrap or served over barley. Hope to see more ideas at "Eat the Right Stuff". Since theres still some red bean paste in my fridge, I'm already thinking of tofu and broccoli instead of eggplant and sweet potato and all sorts of combinations with the basic master-recipe.
I'm hoping it all turns out okay!
Posted by ServesYouRight at 8:28 PM
Labels: eggplant, sweet potato
4 comments:
- Asha said...
LOL @ Car-ma!!
Dish looks delish Smitha.Have a great weekend:))
- trupti said...
hahahahha..."rattles in the bowels..." that's pretty funny.....
Ahhhhh.....Ming Tsai, can't think of anything beyond that right now. All your fault, you put it in my head.
- Meeta said...
Smitha, a great write up. I am like you I get into my car and drive - what happens inside I have no idea!!
Eggplant and sweet potato in the red bean sauce sounds like an awesome combo!
- ServesYouRight said...
Asha, Trupti and Meeta,
Delighted to have you stop by! Keep visiting :-)
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- Henry Northmore
- 14 May 2009
Weren't they big back in the day? Not just big but huge. R&S were at the forefront of the European techno scene and helped cement Belgium's standing in the world of the electronic beat with releases from CJ Bolland, Derrick May, Aphex Twin, DJ Hell, Dave Angel, Ken Ishii and System 7 to name but a few.
So what happened? Named after founders Renaat Vandepapeliere and Sabine Maes, R&S started off releasing disco tracks in the 80s and released their first acid house track ('Drop the Deal' by Code 61) in 1987. They soon gravitated towards the harder end of the electronica spectrum and were massively influential during the 90s. As tastes changed their power waned, but, you can't keep a good horse down and they relaunched in 2008.
A bunch of Belgians you say? What's that got to do with us over in Scotland? There are two reasons you should care (beyond their seminal back catalogue). Firstly, Optimo's ever reliable JD Twitch has a new compilation In Order to Edit out on R&S. Secondly, he's guesting at Men & Machines' first birthday with an exclusive R&S only set (the first 50 punters in the door will receive a free copy of the CD).
So those M&M chaps must be R&S fans? 'They represent a clear path through the history of techno and electronica from the European side,' explain Alasdair Stuart and Ewan Dunnett. 'Their resurgence can only be a good thing. Few record labels have been more important to European techno.' The pair cite CJ Bolland's 'Mantra' and Outlander's 'Vamp' as their favourite R&S releases.
Should fit in nicely with the Men & Machines ethos 'Our nights tend towards techno and house, but we also like playing earlier electronic music that influenced the development of these genres, such as EBM, synth pop, industrial, disco and dark wave. We play music you can thrust too,' they explain with a cheeky wink.
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Pittsburgh has pocket of Pack fans because of McCarthy
McCarthy: Pennsylvania has pocket of Packers boosters
IRVING — As a Pittsburgh native and coach of the Green Bay Packers the past five years, Mike McCarthy is qualified to discuss the essence of being a football fan in western Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
"It's all about your home team," he said.
Well, not exactly.
For many Steelers fans in the blue-collar Pittsburgh neighborhood of Greenfield, which is on a hill near the Monongahela River, Super Bowl XLV is all about pulling for the team that stands in the way of a seventh Lombardi Trophy coming to the Steel City.
"There is no doubt who I'll be rooting for," Jim Gregg said. "In fact, there's a large group of people in Greenfield who will root for the Packers. That's how important Mike is to us."
McCarthy, 47, and his four siblings were raised in Greenfield, and his parents live there.
His father, a former Pittsburgh firefighter and police officer, once owned a bar that was a gathering spot for steelworkers.
After Sunday Mass, the family would spend the day cleaning the tavern.
"We watched a lot of Steelers games there," McCarthy said last week in Green Bay. "I've got a lot of great memories as far as Pittsburgh goes, particularly with sports. We were the city of champions. I was a Steelers fan growing up."
But after arriving here Monday, McCarthy made it clear he bleeds only green and gold.
"Pittsburgh is a big part of who I am, but I am a Green Bay Packer now, and we are here to claim the Lombardi Trophy," he said.
A framed picture of McCarthy is near the entrance to Greenfield's St. Rosalia Academy, Catholic school for kindergarten through eighth grade founded in 1912.
Gregg has coached basketball there the past 40 years.
As a sixth-grader at St. Rosalia, McCarthy led the school's junior varsity basketball team to a 39-1 record and the 1975 Pittsburgh Diocesan title.
Take-charge guy
"Even at that young age, I could see the leadership qualities in him," Gregg said in a phone interview. "He led by example, helped the other kids. He took charge. He was a competitor but always calm.
"Whatever profession he selected, I knew he'd be successful."
Hired by the Packers in 2006 after five seasons as offensive coordinator of the New Orleans Saints (2000-2004) and one calling plays for the San Francisco 49ers (2005), McCarthy is 48-32 with a 3-2 playoff record.
Injury-filled season
More importantly, he's guided Green Bay to two NFC title games in four seasons and has them in the Super Bowl for the first time in 13 years after three straight road playoff wins as the NFC's No. 6 seed.
It's a remarkable achievement considering the Packers finished the season with 16 players on injured reserve, including six starters.
McCarthy handled the adversity and a 3-3 start that gave way to a 10-6 finish with the same leadership qualities he exhibited at St. Rosalia.
"It started with his (calm) personality, and it trickled down to the other coaches and then to the players," Packers linebacker A.J. Hawk said. "He kept telling us, 'There's no need to panic. ' "
Green Bay is his home, but McCarthy hasn't forgotten Greenfield. It's in his contract that the Packers will partner with him to donate annually to his old neighborhood. In August, McCarthy and the Packers gave $100,000, most of which went to St. Rosalia for tuition assistance for its 179 students.
"His generosity helps us keep going," Gregg said.
McCarthy's generosity doesn't surprise former Pitt quarterback Alex Van Pelt. McCarthy tutored Van Pelt as a graduate assistant for the Panthers in the early 1990s.
Lifelong devotion
"That's Pittsburgh," said Van Pelt, who coaches quarterbacks for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. "Once you are from Pittsburgh, you've got that 'burgher' in you. It's a fraternity you never leave.
"And it's very blue-collar. That's what sticks out about Mike - his work ethic. I remember one day he was really sick. His face was white, sweat was pouring off him. But he kept doing his job."
They wouldn't have it any other way in Greenfield.
"I'm proud of my hometown," McCarthy said. "I grew up the right way."


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The wife – Ri Sol-ju
Kim Jong-un married singer Ri Sol-ju soon after he took power. Little is known about her except that she is in her late twenties and likely to have been chosen as wife of the Korean dictator on the grounds that she resembled the wife of Kim Il-sung, the revered founder of North Korea.
She stepped back from public life on the birth of the couple's daughter in late 2012.
The aunt – Kim Kyong-hu
At 65 Kim Kyong-hu is the only woman generally seen amid the photos of North Korea's generals and officials.
Daughter of Kim Il-sung, North Korea's founder, Ms Kim has been one of the most powerful women in the country for 40 years. Along with her husband she was chosen by the late Kim Jong-il before he died in 2011 to help consolidate the authority and image of his son.
The rival – Seo Un-hyang
Seo Un-hyang was a singer in the Unhasu Orchestra which played for Kim Jong-un's father.
"There were rumours that Kim Jong-un fell for her Western features," the sources said, and yet Ri was chosen over her – for her potential for propaganda resembling the first First Lady of North Korea. It is not clear whether Seo was executed along with many of the Orchestra in August, which included one of Kim's former girlfriends.
The executed former girlfriend – Hyon Song-wol
A singer with the Unhasu Orchestra – as were both Kim's wife Ri and Seo Un-hyang – Hyon Song-wol was arrested on August 17 this year and executed a few days later.
Hyon and Kim are believed to have been acquainted for about 10 years and to have struck up a relationship in this time. Kim's father Kim Jong-il did not approve of this and Hyon married a military officer. There is a theory that Ri objected to the high profile of Hyon and this was a factor behind the execution.
The grandmother – Kim Jong-suk
Born on the 24th December 1919 – now a national holiday – a cult has developed around the grandmother of current leader Kim Jong-un.
Kim Jong-suk is touted as the hero of the anti-Japanese resistance and mother to North Korea.
It is likely current First Lady, Ri, was chosen for her resemblance to Kim Jong-suk and yet theories of her death in 1949 include that she died in childbirth when trying to deliver a baby alone, and that she was shot by her husband and bled to death.


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Parishioners honor a passionate man of the cloth: The daylong ceremony at Baltimore's historic Bethel A.M.E. church recognized the Rev. John Richard Bryant's 50 years of service, which began in the steepled church at the corner of Druid Hill Avenue and Lanvale Street and took him to Africa and Massachusetts, then back to his hometown and, most recently, to the Midwest.
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First off, I'm trying to help my girlfriend with her netbook but as I'm overseas, I may not have all the information available at all times but hopefully it will still be alright.
So she tried turning on her computer after about a week of not using it and got the BSOD. We can't boot into any safe modes either. We tried booting into the last known good configuration and it gave us 3 options: Recovery console, a "Do not pick this" debugging option, and Win XP Home edition. So from this, I'm assuming that the recovery console is installed onto the C: drive? Regardless, when we try to select recovery console, it gives us a "disk read error." We've since tried to make a USB recovery console because her netbook doesn't have a CD-rom drive but as we also don't have a Win XP cd, it hasn't been working. From somewhere else on these forums, there was an ISO image of just the XP recovery console but that doesn't seem to work with the programs that we've been trying to use to make a bootable USB.
At this point, I'm basically stumped. We went into the BIOS and it seems like it gives the model name of the HDD (Toshiba something or other) still so I'm hoping that means the HDD itself isn't physically dead. However, from looking online, it seems the next step is to somehow get recovery console to run and do a checkdisk and I have no clue how to do that without an XP cd.
So I figured I would ask on here to see if anyone has any idea about how we can either get a working recovery console to boot from USB without an XP cd (still working on acquiring one through friends but not looking good right now) or if anyone knows another method to perhaps get her computer working again.
Lastly, if it is truly impossible, she would like to salvage some files from the HDD. I don't know much but again from online research, is the only method to remove the HDD and attach it via an IDE/SATA to USB external case to another computer? If so, how do I tell if her HDD is IDE or SATA? Also, please note that while I throw all these technically sounding words out, I have no real idea what I'm talking about haha. I simply read online that I need to differentiate between these two before we invest in one of those HDD to USB converters. Where would people suggest we pick one up (for cheap hopefully)?
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Presidential joke penner, nonfiction author and former staff writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Kevin Bleyer tackles his biggest challenge yet: tweaking the country's founding document.
Bleyer latest project, Me The People: One Man's Selfless Quest to Rewrite the Constitution of the United States of America, considers the origins and legacy of the United States Constitution, bringing an edge of humor to the politics of 1877 and a savvy critic's eye to our fundamentally guaranteed protections.
Get your vote on with more election-themed coverage here and here.
During a recent conversation with Kirkus, Bleyer weighed in on the current election season, voting as a constitutional right and the resilient nature of the U.S. Constitution.
Voting is not a constitutionally guaranteed right. Should that change?
Strange but true, right? States can, in fact, deny the "right to vote" for a bunch of reasons aside from the big, obvious amendment-protected ones—race, gender, income level, poll taxes. And certainly whenever you see, as we have this year, demands for Voter ID laws—logical in theory, often racist in practice—it's hard to argue against the idea that perhaps we need to put the right to vote in large calligraphic writing on a piece of Founder-certified parchment. I mean, couldn't hurt, right?
What makes you the man to rewrite the Constitution?
I feel like I had no choice. I owe America an apology even for not getting to it 200 years ago. Thomas Jefferson himself said that a constitution expires in 19 years. But I was a child of the '80s, not the 1880s. It's an overdue task that had to be engaged upon, and if I'm the only patriot brave enough to do it, then so be it.
More sincerely, I was struck by the amount of attention that was being drawn to the Constitution, especially when so few people have read it or actually know what's in it. I figured that anything that could bring attention to the original document would only be added value.
The surprising part, however, is that many of these solutions—like how to fix the executive or legislative branches—were actually based on solutions that the Founding Fathers suggested. They were entertaining many, many broad ideas when they put this together.
What are your thoughts on this election season? Has it panned out as you'd expected? What surprised you?
Gee, ask me when it's over! Certainly, it never pans out exactly as you expect, and it always seems to pan out more absurdly than you could ever imagine. It's true that every year the campaigns pivot on the most trivial pursuits—slips of the tongue, declarations taken out of context, personal attacks—rather than real issues. But you always hope this'll be the year that everything gets serious. And you're always wrong.
Is there anything you were surprised to learn while researching this title?
The most fascinating part for me, by a long shot, was reading about the herky-jerky, etch-a-sketch goings-on at the Constitutional Convention. They were improvising like nobody's business. They were drinking beer for breakfast, stuck in a stuffy room with windows that didn't open in the summer heat, wearing powdered wigs, prisoners were rioting outside.
This seems like the type of situation that wouldn't exactly inspire clearheaded thinking. I kept thinking that I'd finally come to a part in my reading that would say, "and finally they got down to business." But that never happened. They were at such a loss as to what they wanted to do that they assigned a small committee to start writing parts of the Constitution at night. In the end, they just went with whatever state it was in. Everyone voted yeah because they were so tired of being there.
The thing about pretending to be such an authority on the Constitution is that you have to become an authority on the Constitution. Actually, what I enjoyed about the process is that I'm only a paragraph ahead of the reader. If you start speed reading, you might beat me to the finish. This was as much of a journey for me as it is for the reader. I spoon it to you the moment I learn it, so hopefully the book has a sense of dynamism and a number of breathless revelations.
And if you think about it, or even if you don't, you have to admit that I did more research on the last 200 years of American Constitutional history than the framers ever did. When I was in the New York Public Library checking out Madison's "Vices of the Political System of the United States" and "The Idiot's Guide to the Constitution," I didn't see a single Founding Father in line behind me.
And what's more, even though the framers claimed to base their Constitution on the great models of democracy throughout world history, none of them ever went to Greece. Whereas I went to Greece. So all I can say is: Top that, James Madison.
[Editor's note: An earlier version of this article appeared online May 29, 2012.]


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The Hangover 4 release date - 2019, to be announced
Date: 2016-02-18
Should we rely on the fourth part of The Hangover 4? This is a complicated question, because different sites you look at the different and sometimes conflicting information. The problem is that the third part went to the big screen only in 2013, and since then has not been made any official and clear statements on this issue.
The original name: The Hangover Part 4
Duration: min.
Cast: Zach Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper, Justin Bartha
Genge: Comedy
Country: USA
Release date USA: 2018, to be announced
About The Hangover 4
At the moment, difficult to say anything, but the crazy adventures of the main characters in the third film, the audience liked it, and the budget picture has paid off more than three times. This fact speaks in favor of the continuation should be.
There are reports that the film was continued and the sequel will be released back in 2018. This is due to the employment of performers leading roles in other projects. But at the moment everything is just in the planning and negotiation. Prior to direct work on the script and filming themselves for a long time. This means that even long time we are looking to get accurate information about the future of the story.
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